Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems to be at variance with John Jones where a number of incidents over a period were held to be duplicitously charged as a single count of affray . |
| 2 | It had a real existence , in the sense that a number of rulers in the period 1750–90 attempted , to differing extents and in differing ways , to shape their policies in terms of a body of current theories about the duties of monarchs and the nature of good government . |
| 3 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 4 | Of course , the increase in the total number of firms over the period was not one third , but two thirds — to nearly 3 million , or an average increase of almost 500 every working day . |
| 5 | This study focuses upon a number of children over a period of up to 40 months beginning early in their final year at school and covering the transitional period that follows . |
| 6 | Freud 's theory of the death wish finds a parallel in the schizophrenic experiences described by R. D. Laing , whose work had a significant impact on a number of novelists of the period ( see section 6.2 below ) . |
| 7 | Yet a further central measure would have been the average numbers of citations in the period since the year of deposit of the thesis . |