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Example sentences for "long term"

  • There has been increasing clover failure in our older states for a long term of years.

  • These effects may continue for a long term of years, and an example will illustrate.

  • The state therefore borrows the money for a long term of years, and depends upon the income of the canal fund and the tolls to be collected on the canals, for the repayment of the money borrowed.

  • The less aggravated cases of murder, are in some states distinguished as murder in the second degree, and punished by imprisonment for a long term, or for life.

  • Secondly, while a long term is intended to guard against the too frequent changes in the laws, it may also prevent, for too long a time, the amendment or the repeal of bad laws.

  • The old hags will have enjoyed a long term--much longer than might have been anticipated.

  • The offering shall be made to-night, and another year be added to my long term.

  • To compete, it is first necessary to find a copper deposit; then to lock up a vast sum of money for a long term of years before returns begin to accrue.

  • He who signs another man's name to a check requires fine dexterity to be successful and endangers his liberty for a long term, so the forger is of high consequence.

  • Now, the city of Boston's contract with the Bay State Company for gas at a dollar and twenty-five cents, which had run a long term of years, was just expiring.

  • All the stock is to be pooled in our hands for a long term of years, so you can say to the public that its operations will be in favor of the consolidated company.

  • One night he was arrested in a saloon with a gang that had committed a burglary, and soon after found himself in state prison with a long term of years to serve.

  • When about eighteen years of age he was arrested and given a long term in prison.

  • You have had a long term in prison and are sick of it.

  • An annuity for a long term of years, therefore, though its intrinsic value may be very nearly the same with that of a perpetual annuity, will not find nearly the same number of purchasers.

  • A long term of apprenticeship restrains it more indirectly, but as effectually, by increasing the expense of education.

  • It was for his interest, they had imagined, that no lease granted by any of his predecessors should hinder him from enjoying, during a long term of years, the full value of his land.

  • He was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.

  • Bullard afterward was arrested for an attempted bank burglary in Belgium, and was sentenced to prison for a long term.

  • He had been leader of his party for a long term of difficult years, and Prime Minister for the space of six, and in that capacity had left on the statute book an impressive record of his zeal on behalf of civil and religious liberty.

  • Students should develop a sense of belonging to a caring, helpful humanity, and develop their own short and long term goals in achieving peace and joy through helping others in a responsible manner.

  • Repetition is the key to long term memory.

  • Reviewing new material on a strict schedule is necessary to solidify new material in the memory, and to transfer it from short term memory to long term memory.

  • As a result, there is no investment in the future (in the acquisition of skills or in long term investments, to give but two examples); f.

  • The removal of layers of brokering and intermediation - mainly on the manufacturing and marketing levels - is a historic development (though the continuation of a long term trend).

  • Thus, Eastern contracts are vague expressions of intentions at a given moment - rather than the clear listing of long term, iron-cast and mutual commitments.

  • This does not imply, however, that alfalfa meadows should not, as a rule, be maintained for a long term of years.

  • In time the supply of phosphoric acid and potash might run low, but not for a long term of years.

  • Nevertheless, in all places it cannot always be maintained for a long term of successive years without renewal.

  • A man who has served a long term is not steady above the ears until he has been at liberty several months; and what can such a man do with ten dollars?

  • It was certainly lucky that I did not marry that sweet girl, for a month after I had split with her, I fell for a long term in state's prison.

  • He recovered, however, and was sent to prison for a long term of years.

  • A much more serious difficulty in the way of reform is the ex-convict's health which is always bad if a long term of years has been served.

  • It might be said of him that in due time he received the reward of his crimes, and was sent to the penitentiary for a long term.

  • So, as the sheriff of the county will be here in the morning, I expect to turn him over, and see that he gets a long term.

  • Ra had succeeded Phthah as king of Egypt, and had reigned for a long term of years in peace, contented with his subjects and they with him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long term" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    green turf; long accustomed; long afore; long corridor; long day; long delay; long face; long journey; long letter; long list; long minute; long peace; long pepper; long reign; long since; long slant; long slender; long spell; long stretch; long struggle; long talk; long vowel; long white; longer believe; longer the; longitudinal section