Example sentences of "[art] relatively long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adams ( 1971 ) found no significant asymmetry in a dot enumeration task but it is possible that the relatively long exposure duration he employed was sufficient to eliminate any potential difference between the visual fields . |
| 2 | It was the relatively long period of life from birth to the end of physical dependence on the parents that built into the human being , an eradicable awareness of his vulnerability and a deeply-rooted instinctive expectation that his needs will be met from a source outside himself . |
| 3 | McKenna , recognising the species specific nature of the sudden infant death syndrome and the relatively narrow time range of the majority of deaths , drew attention to both the relatively long period of physical dependence of the human infant and the ways in which caring practices vary with historical and cultural contexts . |
| 4 | Here we report an exception : PSR1718–19 , in the globular cluster NGC6342 , is in a 6.2-hour eclipsing binary system , but has the relatively long period of 1s . |
| 5 | It was difficult to x-ray his leg so far up , and as it was a small machine and needed a relatively long exposure it was hard to get a clear picture with him shaking as the poor boy was doing by this time . |
| 6 | Figure 18.9(a) and ( b ) have general illumination , ( a ) with a relatively long exposure so that details of the instability are blurred and ( b ) as a flash so that an instantaneous pattern is seen . |
| 7 | Partnership may turn out to have a relatively long life but are not formed on that expectation . |
| 8 | A basic foodstuff , such as the common loaf of bread or a packet of ground coffee , will have a relatively long life cycle . |
| 9 | Pollution control work in the southern area has had , in contrast with the northern , a relatively long history and tends as a result to emphasize the maintenance of already existing acceptable standards of water quality . |
| 10 | This would ensure directionality , but it would still leave the problem of getting the message from one end of the signalling cell to the other over what would now be a relatively long distance . |
| 11 | Fads breed products with a short life-cycle , such as pop records and other leisure items ; fashions tend to develop or reappear over the course of years , and the products which follow them tend to have a relatively long life-cycle . |
| 12 | On the one hand , people look for a low instalment amount ( which of course tends to mean a relatively long repayment period ) ; on the other , they look for a short repayment period ( which tends to mean a relatively high instalment amount ) . |
| 13 | My preference , especially with a menagerie fleet and a relatively long line , is to approach the line as in Diagram 3 . |
| 14 | An alternative policy advocates a single large daily dose of aminoglycosides , such as 240 mg instead of 80 mg eight hourly , since the antibacterial activity is related to the dose and these agents exert a relatively long antibiotic effect , at least in vitro . |
| 15 | The corrosion emanated from the joint between the bottom of the pressure dome and the fuselage and there was nicotine tar staining on the edge of the corroded area indicating that it had developed over a relatively long period . |
| 16 | This was particularly the case with patients who had been given methadone reduction over a relatively long period of time , say two to three months . |
| 17 | However , the considerations given earlier on overflow area size and the need to allow for a relatively long period between reorganizations will guide the designer to a reasonable compromise . |
| 18 | It should be borne in mind here that many trustees would be able to appoint the capital to relatively young beneficiaries so that the property might not be subject to a further charge for a relatively long period . |
| 19 | One of the problems they face , however , is that hotels have a relatively long pay-back period . |
| 20 | In the developed world , the harnessing of fossil fuel energy as well as other scientific developments , and their application to agricultural systems , has opened up a new range of agricultural possibilities : but all this has happened over a relatively long time period and is not without its environmental implications . |
| 21 | We can assume that in a normal working session a lexicographer will spend a relatively long time thinking as opposed to manipulating text . |
| 22 | This may mean that a file which operates well under normal conditions , i.e. many home records being accessed but few synonyms , may take a relatively long time to process sequentially . |
| 23 | This effect persists for a relatively long time , and as there is a specific relationship between the stimuli and the responses , it is regarded as a genuine form of associative learning . |
| 24 | In comparison with the inhibition effect , however , this facilitation only occurred when the subject was given a relatively long time to read the context . |
| 25 | T n tracts of T 9 GCA 9 persist for a relatively long time adds further weight to the suggestion that these are caused by ligand-induced alterations in local DNA structure , rendering it more susceptible to attack by this nuclease . |