Example sentences of "a long period [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ We have had a long period of success under a lot of good coaches and we are confident John can do a great job for us . ’ |
| 2 | After a century there began a long period of sea warfare and skirmishing over the north of Ulthuan . |
| 3 | Others in the government were opposed to such a long period of withdrawal , favouring instead two to six years . |
| 4 | I have been through a long period of psychotherapy dealing with this abuse and continue to find internal examinations traumatic . |
| 5 | What distinguishes the companies still with us after a long period of recession is that they are lucky — they do not seem to have been hit by the unexpected . |
| 6 | Freud thought that the need for a long period of education for young men and women in the ‘ civilized ’ sections of modern societies was linked with the development of neurotic illness because of the deferment of sexual gratification necessary while education took place . |
| 7 | It sought a socialist majority in its own right , but most of its leaders believed that a long period of education and propaganda would be necessary before that majority could be secured . |
| 8 | After a long period of depression , and a short period of training , he had taken on a new career — one which also demanded dexterity with the hands : that of a mortician . |
| 9 | The foundations were now securely laid for a long period of prosperity rising to a peak in the early fourth century , if one can judge from the mansion-type houses in the towns and countryside . |
| 10 | These measures had resulted from a long period of maturation and fitted into Morrison 's 1944 vision of a ‘ legislative programme of social reconstruction ’ after the war had ended . |
| 11 | The human being ( a far more complex creature inhabiting a far more complex world ) needs to be highly adaptive and has a long period of play in which to build up a vast repertoire of behaviours . |
| 12 | Thus the death of Catherine I of Russia in 1727 and the changes it produced in Russian policy in the Baltic brought about a reconciliation with Britain after a long period of antagonism ; the death in 1762 of the Empress Elizabeth meant Russia 's immediate withdrawal from the Seven Years War ; and the accession to the throne of Frederick II was an essential preliminary to the Prussian attack on Silesia in 1740 . |
| 13 | What each of us does over a long period of trial and error is to acquire a set of tools with which we are comfortable and which we can apply in different ways to the myriad problems which we need to solve . |
| 14 | Historically there is a long period of overlap between patronal and market social relations in the arts . |
| 15 | The view that the major industrial nations are in a period of transition — at the end of a long period of industrialism and entering a new phase of post-industrialism — pre-dates the onset of deindustrialization and the debates around the issue . |
| 16 | It is significant that a popular monarch , making war at the very start of his reign , after a long period of peace , could only raise such inadequate sums . |
| 17 | We think that the er residents of a new settlement will still look to York as the natural centre for employment , for er provision of most employment , retailing and entertainment , and if you compare it with something like er Easingwold , erm which is of a similar size , erm this has achieved a degree a degree of self containment and balance , but this has occurred through erm a long period of development and a gradual growth of erm social linkages and economic linkages , however , even with such erm a gradual growth erm it 's not got a high degree of self containment , erm recent developments in er transport and changes in lifestyle have reduced this even further , and it 's difficult to believe that er a proposal , such as a new settlement er which is explicitly intended to cater for the development needs of York , located only ten miles from York can achieve the same level of self containment . |
| 18 | Second , a large proportion of the older workers had a long period of service with the same company before being made redundant . |
| 19 | After a long period of deliberation , during which Craganour 's owner Charles Bower Ismay was seen to become ever more pale , the official announcement was given : the race went to Aboyeur . |
| 20 | He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary , and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous , since it has been honoured only in the breach . |
| 21 | Finally , from whatever defence line was established and after a long period of mobilization , Nato 's forces ( presumably mostly Anglo-American ) would launch the great counter-offensive . |
| 22 | It is not clear why this species has such a long period of amplexus ; it is not an explosive breeder . |
| 23 | The performance of the housewife role in adulthood is prefaced by a long period of apprenticeship . |
| 24 | There followed a long period of explanation of what we did followed by negotiations on what we would have to do to meet the standard . |
| 25 | He went on ‘ improving ’ this poem over a long period of years so that the text usually printed shows many alterations from the original . |
| 26 | The committee was ‘ particularly concerned about the relatively slow progress of the Home Office ’ and felt that it would be ‘ a long period of years ’ before systems in the Ministry of Defence could be relied on . |
| 27 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) has made it unequivocally clear over a long period of years that he is wholly opposed to unilateral devolution , which is what the Bill proposes . |
| 28 | Cyclical fluctuations in the level of economic activity in an economy can be observed by examining annual changes in real national income ( or real output ) over a long period of years ; these changes are inversely related to variations in the rate of unemployment . |
| 29 | Instead it was understood that there would be a long period of commodity circulation and all that that implied . |
| 30 | For example , a long period of site activity may require pre-booking of hotel accommodation and measured survey stages could demand additional temporary help . |