This view asserts not that every true idea is useful at some time, or in the long run, or for a considerable period; but that the truth of an idea may come and go, as its utility comes and goes.
Sir Mark Isombard Brunell, the originator and designer of the Thames Tunnel, resided for a considerable period in the centre house.
He filled the office of Provost of Dundee for a considerable period, as will afterwards be noticed.
He served for a considerable period in the royal navy as midshipman and master's mate, and at one period also, it is said, held the post of lieutenant.
Thankee, Miss,' returned the Grinder; who immediately began to use his own personal grinders in a most remarkable manner, as if he had been on very short allowance for a considerable period.
On his head he wears the globular thick-brimmed hat distinctive of men in authority for many hundred years before his time, and for a considerable period afterwards.
Notwithstanding a considerable period of Egyptian rule, therefore, Babylonian influence, which had been predominant in the tract for many centuries, still held the upper hand.
One thing is certain, and that is, that Tanis was the residence of the Hyksos kings, who held court there for a considerable period, as did also many who preceded and followed them.
They are not, usually, periodic in any regular manner, but they have the same tendency to complete intermission, and they frequently haunt some one or more definite nerves for a considerable period of time.
Thorfinn came to an end at his death, a very large portion of the north of Scotland had been repeatedly held possession of for a considerable period by the Norwegians.
Bayard, who entered the Senate at the opening of the Forty-first congress, was little known to the public, except as a member of a family which had been for a considerable period prominent in the political affairs of Delaware.
Raum, afterward for a considerable period Commissioner of Internal Revenue, entered from Illinois.
It was soon discovered that a force compelled to wear its gas masks for any considerable period lost in efficiency.
Thus when all these experience figures were assembled, the officers in charge at Washington knew exactly in what proportions the whole American industrial world had used files of various types throughout a considerable period of time.
The American packing service, in saving thousands of tons of shipping space, in reality offset the operations of the U-boats over a considerable period of time.
These schools would also be used for those whose capabilities cannot be assessed without extended expert observation for a considerable period.
The observation, possibly for a considerable period of time, of an expert psychiatrist or psychologist may be necessary in order to arrive at an accurate estimate of the mental ability of the subject.
In many instances these young women should be kept under control for a considerable period.
In the month of November I was seriously indisposed for a considerable period.
Luckily I had already lived for a considerable period on board sailing vessels during my former travels, and was therefore acquainted with their arrangements, which are very different from those of steamers.
Besides a severe beating, they have fetters placed round their neck and feet; these they have to wear for a considerable period.
At the best it could not be made in less than a month, and during a considerable period at the beginning and the end of each winter season the trip was very arduous and dangerous.
For a considerable period before 1837, the legislatures of Upper and Lower Canada had not paid their accounts for postage.
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