A long-period planet orbiting a nearby Sun-like star.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Super-Earths Discovered Around Sun-like Stars | Universe Today] Reference

After all, the AMO is nothing more than a long-period cycle in the SST.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holland and Webster Figure 1 « Climate Audit] Reference

The slightest error, and we'd either burn up, or become a long-period comet.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 Odyssey Two]

By looking at these long-period events, we have this direct window into the fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Telegraph « Climate Audit] Reference

Following the surfaces of enormous swells, Wyvern felt a long-period surge and drop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crashlander]

But they likely felt these very long-period surface waves of tens of seconds in duration.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2007] Reference

The average rainfall over the past 50 years, or the long-period average, is 89 centimeters.    From Wordnik.com.  [India Monsoon Likely Normal] Reference

The long-period events are important because they reflect a process that involves the fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Telegraph « Climate Audit] Reference

Why should that long-period SST cycle have the opposite effect on hurricanes as a shorter term SST cycle?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holland and Webster Figure 1 « Climate Audit] Reference

Extracting long-period climate fluctuations from tree-ring chronologies over timescales of centuries to millennia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Euro Hockey Team and Yamal « Climate Audit] Reference

An uninterrupted process of transition, such as the above, to a new long-period position can be complicated in detail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money] Reference

He attributed the increases to “long-period natural climate alterations” that have occurred many times in the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricanes Still to Come? | Impact Lab] Reference

We will first suppose that the change is of such a character that the new long-period employment will be greater than the old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money] Reference

Under this heavy load, the unhappy and degraded soldier was compelled to stagger along with his masters; but fortunately for no long-period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick of the Woods] Reference

In any case, getting a confident handle on all potentially deadly long-period comets is, today, not possible nor in the forseeable future either.    From Wordnik.com.  [WISE Bags its First Near-Earth Asteroid | Universe Today] Reference

Moreover, it is easy to conceive of conditions which will cause it to increase at some stage to a higher level than the new long-period employment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money] Reference

Thus the change in expectation may lead to a gradual crescendo in the level of employment, rising to a peak and then declining to the new long-period level.    From Wordnik.com.  [The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money] Reference

Oops, and on your second point - I'd be equally happy with single-session Tetris style games OR long-period games in microgaming installments a la Animal Crossing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Towards a Casual RPG] Reference

The concepts of user cost and of supplementary cost also enable us to establish a clearer relationship between long-period supply price and short-period supply price.    From Wordnik.com.  [The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money] Reference

Intriguingly, long-period gravitational waves are preferentially generated by pairs of the most massive black holes — the giant beasts that lie at the center of galaxies.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Pulsar "Clocks" Will Aid Gravitational Wave Detection | Universe Today] Reference

Several very long-period comets, in near-parabolic orbits, are known.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

A long-period comet called 2001 RX14 (Linear) turned up in images captured in.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

DELHI: The country has received 14% less rains than the long-period average (LPA) till.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to PNG to benefit from increased coffee prices] Reference

They'll most likely do that for a long-period of time, or for the rest of their lifespan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Comet Thatcher of 1861, a long-period comet that will not return for another 270 or so years.    From Wordnik.com.  [YubaNet.com] Reference

A long-period comet takes from 200 years to tens of millions of years to make a single orbit of the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

If we are in long-period equilibrium, special assumptions might be devised on which this could be justified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Shows long-period graph of public support for lunar exploration, always about fifty-fifty with fluctuations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transterrestrial Musings] Reference

Facebook has two major advantages over AOL that will help Facebook remain important for a long-period of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs] Reference

This zone is far from a hot, blue star, so any habitable planet around a hot star would have a long-period orbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

A tsunami is a series of long-period waves created by an abrupt disturbance that displaces a large amount of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Of course there is a causal relationship between the short-period chaotic phenomenon of weather and long-period climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

It warns that using excessive amounts of the adhesive over a long-period of time could result in "serious health effects".    From Wordnik.com.  [NewsInferno] Reference

He said quantitatively, monsoon rainfall for the country as a whole is likely to be 93 per cent of the long-period average.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

The tone is so deep that if played in a small room, it's hard to hear: The long-period sound waves extend beyond the walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference

Stars, the vicissitudes of which are comprised in cycles of seven to twenty months, or more, are called "long-period variables".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

The Seattle basin exacerbates the situation by significantly amplifying these long-period motions in the Seattle metropolitan area.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference