Example sentences of "[vb base] for long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have found that the pupils designated as having moderate learning difficulties that I have worked with can : concentrate for long periods of time ; sustain protracted investigations ; be systematic ; reason logically ; find patterns and relationships ; make and test predictions ; generalise ; record and explain their findings . |
| 2 | Some have wide spools which make for longer casting . |
| 3 | You are going to eat well , sleep for long hours and look at your inheritance . ’ |
| 4 | In winter , badgers sleep for longer but they do n't hibernate . |
| 5 | It , therefore , has two schemes that provide for longer terms funding for particular departments to build up a research programme in a particular area : there are now 150 of these groups at German universities . |
| 6 | Movements often stop for long periods , but you may be asked to fill in a ‘ kick chart ’ if you are concerned about it . |
| 7 | The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment . |
| 8 | In general , long shots run for longer than close-ups because they contain more information for the eye to take in , and an average length might be ten to fifteen seconds . |
| 9 | This process whereby financial intermediaries lend for longer periods of time than they borrow is known as maturity transformation . |
| 10 | Nor could Unionists , who had flocked to the colours in 1914 , accept for long inequality of sacrifice when the nation 's greatest need was manpower . |
| 11 | Droplets up to 100 m in size can be suspended in the air and travel for long distances , so a few deeply inhaled legionella-laden amoebae could cause infection , especially since legionellae successfully outgrow the host cell at body temperature . |
| 12 | All need annual pruning but many flower for long periods and come in lots of colours . |
| 13 | New English roses from David Austin look and smell like old roses but flower for longer and are more compact . |
| 14 | New English roses like ‘ Heritage ’ look and smell like old roses but flower for longer |
| 15 | But while 123 Windows is a relatively new product for Lotus , Excel has been exploiting the Windows interface for longer and it shows . |
| 16 | The unions have dropped from their claim the demand for increased annual leave , extra holiday and pay for long service , and reductions in working hours . |
| 17 | Older people who have fewer than eight main meals each week , or who go for long periods of the day without food , are considered to be especially at risk . |
| 18 | Trajectories which start within BCEF continue to wander near the strange invariant set until they eventually fall into one of these doubly hatched regions outside BCEF ( from whence they spiral into C+ or C ) ; so , as r approaches 24.06 , trajectories wander for longer and longer . |
| 19 | The only drawback is the expense if you fish for long sessions and take enough meat to feed continuously . |
| 20 | When choosing several varieties , remember that cross-pollination may be important and that some fruits store for longer than others . |
| 21 | A shorter half-life of lymphocytes expressing the lower- M r isoforms has also been observed in sheep , whereas cells with a ‘ naive ’ phenotype persist for long periods in mice after adoptive transfer . |
| 22 | I would have to go as fast as I could while I could still see the way , and then rest for longer , and then probably crawl . |
| 23 | Although evolution decrees that species of plant and animal which survive for long periods are shaped to the advantages determined by natural selection , progress over time to larger size might be a law of nature independent of environmental factors . |
| 24 | While other constitutional texts , where they existed at all , have for long periods been purely notional , national autonomy never ceased to have a certain operation reality . |