Example sentences of "[adj] long period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , there is another long period before this new technology appears in the market-place in products , processes , or services . |
| 2 | Scientists are concerned that a special event , such as a sunspot or supernova might occur during this long period of communications blackout . |
| 3 | Nearly four years have passed since The Satanic Verses was declared blasphemous by the late Ayatollah Khomeini , and during this long period of internal exile there must have been times when Rushdie , experiencing deep changes and wrenches in the soul , has wondered at the prescience of those words . |
| 4 | A glance at the sketch map above will show the general limits of the Byzantine Empire ( which fluctuated greatly during this long period ) , but the influence of the style was exerted over a much greater area : north to Russia , north-west to southern France , east to Armenia and Georgia . |
| 5 | More sophisticated weapons like throwing sticks and bows and arrows came only after a further long period of brain development . |
| 6 | I no longer retain fish for such long periods . |
| 7 | For three long periods during my time as a writer , now coming close to twenty years , barrenness and depression have gone together . |
| 8 | However , problems can arise in that long periods of notice may have to be given in order to arrange entry into such schools . |
| 9 | This was typical of the suety coverage of the War Before the War , that long period of waiting before the January 15 deadline . |
| 10 | These were er built in between the th that long period that I was on the council . |
| 11 | If the long and complex passage of Athenaeus 6 ( 273a–275b ) , which Felix Jacoby gives as fragment 59 , can be considered a trustworthy summary of Posidonius ' views about Roman civilization , two features emerge : ( a ) the Romans preserved for a long time their extreme simplicity of life ; ( b ) in that long period they learnt many techniques from various foreigners ( Greeks , Etruscans , Samnites and Iberians ) and their constitutional principles from the Spartans . |
| 12 | And only two amazing misses , one of those candidly coming er just before scored the second Notts goal , with a headed chance headed wide when er had come and missed it , and when on forty four minutes on the watch but not a minute before the end of half time if you get the meaning because we had that long period of extra time , er missed the chance completely , he 'd made the er Pisa goal brilliantly with a cross from the right hand side , deep cross , pulled back brilliantly , but left with a chance , the number eleven in front of the post , well what was he doing ? again had come and again he 'd missed it and left with an open goal was wide of the target . |
| 13 | When we were in our twenties , we thought that life was full enough just thinking about ourselves in those long periods of freedom that the twenties offered , without having to fill them up with anything else . |
| 14 | After this time they were never really separated for any long period , and the course of Dorothy 's life can be regarded as the same as Wordsworth 's . |
| 15 | We were never given any long period free from a fight from the coast to a target and hack … |
| 16 | Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species . |
| 17 | From er re repeated stress repeated strain of of continuous long periods of sleep deprivation . |
| 18 | Mr Mayor point of councillor letter came to me after I 'd already written which she will be aware long period . |
| 19 | I suspect , indeed , that the whole process of evolution , from remote resemblance to near perfect mimicry , has gone on , rather rapidly , many times over in different insect groups , during the whole long period that bird vision has been just about as good as it is today . |
| 20 | SIR — I like to recall a wry comment on the television programme That Was The Week That Was towards the end of the Tories ' last long period in office during the early Sixties : ‘ There 's only one thing that will make the Conservatives popular again — and that is the next Labour government ! ’ |