Example sentences of "long period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people with AIDS have to spend long periods of time in hospital unless there is someone at home who can help and look after them . |
| 2 | People with AIDS are often well for long periods between times of illness . |
| 3 | Without ACET 's practical support at home they could spend long periods of time in hospital unnecessarily . |
| 4 | Another senior personnel manager said : ‘ It would not be a moral judgment , but we have to consider the practicalities of appointing someone who could be off work for long periods . ’ |
| 5 | Stainless steel is also attacked by the cleaning fluids intended for silver-plated cutlery and by immersion for long periods in vinegary solutions , particularly if the vinegar has salt with it , as in the case of pickles . |
| 6 | Eat self-blanching celery as soon as possible as it does not keep well for long periods . |
| 7 | Some , like chickweed and poppies , have seeds that lie dormant in the soil for long periods until the right conditions trigger them to life . |
| 8 | An annual briefing on cable break procedures and other emergencies would be very valuable for everyone who flies gliders , and particularly those who stop flying for long periods over the winter months and so get badly out of practice . |
| 9 | Do n't sunbathe for long periods in the same position . |
| 10 | Particular units who operated for long periods at a time in the jungle became so adept in their surroundings they became known as ‘ Green Ghosts ’ . |
| 11 | Many such wagons spent long periods hidden away in marshalling yards or being used as storage containers on customers ' premises , practices which the business-led Railfreight sector was understandably keen to eradicate . |
| 12 | This enables underwater operation for long periods of time . |
| 13 | For long hauls the rivers still remained more important than roads in NEP , despite the fact that many of them flow to the Arctic and are frozen for long periods . |
| 14 | Baits need to be anchored well on the bottom and left for long periods and leger tactics are more likely to succeed than the float . |
| 15 | Can you share the same confines , for long periods of time , and where does your tolerance level lie ? |
| 16 | An example of this is the early Lettrist film Hurlement en faveur de Sade , with its long periods of blank screen and extended silences . |
| 17 | Interestingly , in those subjects living for fairly long periods in isolation , in whom the pattern of sleep and activity becomes irregular ( see Chapter 2 ) , meals too become erratic in their numbers and composition . |
| 18 | Such joist-ends will decay if their moisture content remains over 20 per cent for long periods . |
| 19 | Privacy ; Erika longed for it herself , often , but it occurred to her , for the first time , that her mother might long for it , too , might want it and , indeed , need it , and it dawned on her , also for the first time , that her mother had never had any privacy since the end of the War ; that all her life since then she had lived in small apartments , actually in one small room for long periods , and sharing even that room with others … . |
| 20 | Without proper treatment and support , many end up homeless , unemployed for long periods , and cut off from their families . |
| 21 | Numbers of refugees seeking asylum in the United Kingdom are held in detention for long periods following their arrival . |
| 22 | They were convinced there should be no long periods of separation . |
| 23 | ‘ It is a drug used in medicine since 1935 and its serious side-effects are rare even when it is prescribed at high concentrations for long periods . |
| 24 | Solitary dolphins have been known to spend long periods around human settlements , encounters which attest to their humour , playfulness , curiosity and gentleness , and their readiness to help humans in distress . |
| 25 | He thinks that when he goes on to test the device in human patients , it should prove successful over long periods . |
| 26 | Patients taking Ativan and Valium for long periods may suffer acute anxiety when they stop . |
| 27 | In my busy life there are times when I dream of long periods away from people . |
| 28 | Dana was always balanced between the two , whereas I would fluctuate for long periods — a year or two in the male , a year or two in the female scale , with often sharp and distressing adjustments of behaviour and character . |
| 29 | This development was of course gradual and there were long periods when several alloys were in use . |
| 30 | Depending on the nature of the defect , electrons may remain trapped for long periods of time ; such a trap would be referred to as ‘ deep ’ . |