Example sentences of "only [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |
| 2 | When the slings and arrows of outrageous everyday life buffet our heads , we escape to Assynt , even if only for a long weekend , and always return refreshed , perspective regained . |
| 3 | But it is an agreement which is " restrictive of trade " in this sense , that it requires a man to give his services and wares to one person only for a long term of years to the exclusion of all others . |
| 4 | Perhaps the mother-daughter relationship is also significant in respect of whether the Lady enters your life easily , or only after a long struggle . |
| 5 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 6 | Transmission often succeeds only after a long incubation period , which decreases substantially after serial passaging . |
| 7 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 8 | The Pilkington float process , metal skis , xerography , are success stories , but only after a long time period , much effort and many technical difficulties . |
| 9 | The relationship between birth interval and frequency of still births seems to resemble " U " or " J " shaped curves , inasmuch as the still birth ratio is very high if the preceding birth interval is short ( less than a year ) and decreases after one completed year up to a five year interval but , if the next birth follows only after a longer interval , the chance that it will result in a stillborn baby increases again . |