To enable him to stand with the least effort for long periods, the patient adopts an attitude which makes little demand on the muscles, and throws nearly all the strain of the body weight on the ligaments and bones of the feet.
The introduction of these explanatory particulars by the sacred historian furnishes an additional argument for the theory of long periods.
Nor does this accord with the curious fact that the seventh day, which, on the hypothesis of long periods, is still in progress, is not said to have had an evening or morning.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long periods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.