long period
Example Sentences
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A new manufacturing line could scrap over half its production for a long period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Compared with the brains of other mammals, the human brain develops over an unusually long period.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
That’s “probably one of the higher values” recorded there, but meteorologists don’t have a long period of registered climate data for that area so it’s hard to say, he added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
"Additional analysis of nearby seismic stations, long period seismic waves, and satellite imagery led to the determination that the seismic event was instead a glacial collapse and debris flow, and that no earthquake had occurred."
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The feeling was a thirst, a thirst borne of time, of memory, of blood; an almost diabetic thirst that afflicted him whenever he passed a long period of time without flying.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
