Example sentences of "a long series " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although the mechanism of accumulation of the humbled bones presents a puzzle , the discoveries of the latest in a long series of excavations by Spanish workers , reported on page 534 of this issue , seem not only to have settled the question of the affinities of the Atapeuerca hominids , but also promise to clarify our understanding of the evolution of humans in Europe . |
| 32 | Thus monotony and fragmentation are intimately connected , and through the need to accomplish a long series of jobs each day , a feeling of always having too much to do may be added . |
| 33 | What it has still largely ignored are the psychological repercussions , both of the realisation that a couple can not conceive — the guilt , the anger , the envy of others — and of the effects of keeping hope alive by a long series of treatments . |
| 34 | The Lancet , for instance , had a long series of articles on various medications that paraded as abortifacients . |
| 35 | The Director-General of RTF was appointed by the government ( as were the heads of state or public service radio and TV until 1982 ) : the ‘ DG ’ appointed in 1946 , Vladimir Porche , held his post for 11 years ; but governments conceived of broadcasting as a state administration , and Porche himself — a ‘ counseiller d'etat ’ — was the first of a long series of ‘ counseillers d'etat ’ , prefects and top civil servants to head the state broadcasting organizations , RTF and ORTF ( i.e. until 1974 ) . |
| 36 | Question time , which might be used to investigate major issues of general public interest , degenerates into a long series of requests for information about individual cases : 333 out of the 357 questions put to the Minister for Social Welfare in October and November 1983 fell into this category . |
| 37 | After a long series of such measurements I add up the number of instances in which a particular combination of results has occurred . |
| 38 | Even with direct response , it is still not going to be clear , without a long series of tests , why the winning ad is best . |
| 39 | We know that in the eleventh century the Jurassic Way in Oxfordshire was the main road to Northampton , probably joining it with the important town of Gloucester , and throughout the Middle Ages it was a market-road , linking one market town with the next in a long series . |
| 40 | Or , again , a new discovery might be arrived at after a long series of observations and calculations , as exemplified by Kepler 's discoveries of his laws of planetary motion . |
| 41 | A long series of searches beginning with Lowell in 1905 culminated with Tombaugh 's discovery of Pluto in 1930 . |
| 42 | It was when I got into the Law Courts and began a long series of litigation lasting twenty five years " . |
| 43 | The sea was drawing off across the foreshore — leaving acre after acre of rocks — with a long series of hollow roars , diminishing , diminuendo on diminuendo . |
| 44 | The final decision as to what to count is actually the solution to the problem in hand ; this decision is taken only through a long series of complicated exploratory maneuvers ’ ( Labov 1972a : 82 ) . |
| 45 | We know that Eworth can be associated with a long series of signed pictures bearing his monogram HE . |
| 46 | Starting in the 1920s she became increasingly interested in floral morphology ; in a long series of papers in the Annals of Botany and the New Phytologist she recorded her observations on vascular and carpelary structure in a wide range of flowers . |
| 47 | From that time , a long series of rigorous studies were developed in cognizance of the methodological problems , many of the recent ones using the WFS surveys and computerized data processing and analytical techniques ( see for example , Wray , 1971 ; Fedrick and Adelstein , 1973 ; Wolfers and Scrimshaw , 1975 ; Spiers and Wang , 1976 ; Gray , 1981 ; Baldion , 1981 ; Swenson , 1981 ; Carlaw and Vaidya , 1983 ; Fortney and Higgins , 1983 ; Hobcraft , et al , 1983 ; Martin et al , 1983 ; Cleland and Sathar , 1984 ; De Sweemer , 1984 ; Palloni and Tienda , 1986 ) . |
| 48 | In economic life , in spite of a long series of efforts , little was achieved . |
| 49 | ‘ We 'll have a long series of locks to navigate later — a bit trying for a novice . |
| 50 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 51 | It can therefore be said that in a long series of estimates under the same conditions the population mean would lie within one standard error of the mean 68 per cent of the time , or within two standard errors 95·4 per cent of the time . |
| 52 | The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial . |
| 53 | It can therefore be said that in a long series of estimates under the same conditions the population mean would lie within one standard error of the mean 68 per cent of the time , or within two standard errors 95.4 per cent of the time . |
| 54 | Okay er , according to Darwin , and here I quote , in infants long before birth , says Darwin , the skins on the soles of the feet is thicker than on any other part of the body , and it can hardly be doubted that this is due to the inherited effects of pressure during a long series of generations . |
| 55 | The war of 1689 – 97 saw a long series of such contacts between the belligerents almost from its outbreak ; and the final settlement stemmed from protracted discussions between French and Dutch emissaries in 1694 – 96 . |
| 56 | There a long series of rectifications , again often based on exchanges carefully adjusted to make sure that neither side too obviously gained or lost by them , meant that by 1789 the boundary was essentially a modern linear one . |
| 57 | We had a long series of various pieces of research , one of which was actually talk to enormous amount of customers through customer and as a consequence of that we 've we decided to form a fairly business to produce a very different pair of stores , different in that they wo n't trade in the traditional way that M F Is gone ah they 'll carry different merchandise , different price lines . |
| 58 | ‘ But it 's not love , it 's just a long series of tactics . ’ |
| 59 | Naturally we lose some points at the beginning and end ( four in this case ) but this may not be of great importance in a long series . |
| 60 | Between 1947 and 1955 a man called Will Cowan made a long series of short documentaries on the popular Jazz artists of the era . |