Example sentences of "during a [adj] period [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Metropolitan Police study conducted during a three-month period in 1979 found that 0.4 per cent of detainees were held for seventy-two hours or more . |
| 2 | An early version of the alternative doctrine polygeny , according to which the global category consists of a set of quite separate races of quite distinct historical origin and wholly different psychological attributes was advanced by Paracelsus in 1520 , but of much greater significance for the history of anthropology is the fact that , during a critical period between 1 850 and 1 870 , polygeny was the dominant orthodoxy in scientific circles throughout Europe and America . |
| 3 | Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change . |
| 4 | Many of the submerged banks and the bottoms of the lagoons of the atolls seem to be at a remarkably uniform depth , as one would expect if they represent an important phase of planation during a long period of preglacial stability . |
| 5 | Four child patients had died and nine others suffered mysterious heart attacks or respiratory failures during a two-month period in 1991 when Allitt had been a nurse at the hospital . |
| 6 | Patients received a mean of 1.2 U of packed red blood cells ( SD=2 ) and they were in hospital during a mean period of 7.4 days ( SD=3.6 ) ( Tables II and III ) . |
| 7 | Second , a study of problem drug users known to eight agencies in the South Tyneside area during a six-month period in 1981 ( Pattison et al .1982 ) produced an estimated annual prevalence rate of 1.2 known opioid users per 1,000 of the adult population , compared to about 5 per 1,000 in Wirral . |
| 8 | Bryant 's 1983 article is one of the few pieces of work which touches on the subject , noting the number of selections made by seven public and academic libraries during an eight-week period in 1982 . |