Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a relatively [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Because the recommendations in our Report have been prepared in a relatively short time , some changes will almost certainly prove necessary in the light of experience . |
| 3 | ‘ We certainly surprised a lot of people and I think we may even have surprised ourselves by the progress we had made in a relatively short time . ’ |
| 4 | Secondly , the experienced hypnotherapist will know how to take the patient back in time , beginning with a relatively happy time of life before progressing to the period where the trauma occurred . |
| 5 | The second item of research was that undertaken by Morrison and MacIntyre ( 1969 , also quoted in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) who had found that ‘ changes in sensitivity towards pupil/ teacher relationships developed during initial training were reversed as a result of full time teaching within a relatively short time ’ . |
| 6 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 7 | Whatever their purpose , the turntable , loop and building were probably removed within a relatively short time , for in the years following its opening the BCR could not afford to keep anything that it did not need . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The vogue of the Klan lasted for a relatively short time , but at its height , it may have had five million members . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Laboratory experiments can only last for a relatively short time , and have to be held within the confines of the laboratory . |
| 12 | Mr Murray explained that the aim would be that loans should be repaid within a relatively short time . |