The slump is usually the longest phase in the property cycle.

A long phase of his life had ended, a new phase was beginning.

It is possible this wall could represent an earlier and longer phase of the perimeter wall.

Some thought a long phase in the history of the human race had ended during the year of 1945.

This was a long elegant phase in which Wenczel used every classic stroke.

Periods of attention were followed by long phases of official neglect.

In the first and longest phase, those who directed the process had no sense of the final outcome.

This grant ended in 1977 after a long phase of engineering research into the basic requirements and tools for the satellite.

This, the gallery's fifth Man Ray show, deals with the work turned out in the long, last phase of his life.

On February 14/15, the tactic was changed, as had been established already before the operation, and the last and in this case longest phase began.