Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , it is not unknown for a partner gradually to lose interest in mundane administrative matters : often enough the problems that this can cause are exacerbated by his co-partners allowing him to escape his share of responsibility over a long period . |
| 2 | Patients in their 80s now constitute 3.5% of those undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting at the Mayo Clinic ; 79% of 115 survivors were free of angina after a mean period of 29 months . |
| 3 | The landlord requires security of income for a long period , and this is specially desirable where the landlord is an investing institution which pays out pensions or insurance policies , because a period of twenty-five years ' secure income facilitates the actuarial calculations necessary in order to determine the level of payments which the landlord can make . |
| 4 | First , the payment of this sum of money over a short period would have a considerable inflationary effect . |
| 5 | It may also be possible to argue that where the party has failed to respond to a notice of assignment from the purchaser , such lack of action over a long period is an implied consent where that party has dealt with the purchaser after completion . |
| 6 | The current Governor-General , Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo , would assume the functions of president for a transitional period , the duration of which was not fixed . |
| 7 | The last Governor-General , Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo , assumed the position of President for a transitional period expected to last three months . |
| 8 | Nevertheless we are always faced with a contradiction between rates of deposition and the known thickness of rock for a particular period of geological time . |
| 9 | The normal reaction of all parturient females is to seek a degree of isolation for a transient period . |
| 10 | For example , take a company which displays a doubling of turnover over a five-year period using a column graph ( vertical bar chart ) . |
| 11 | The father , Mr P , also an English incomer to Orkney , had carried out various forms of abuse over a long period of time . |
| 12 | The first step in achieving this objective is to guarantee a place on Employment Training ( ET ) for everyone who has been out of work for a long period of time . |
| 13 | In the event of disagreement after a suitable period , ( a further two weeks ) the president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales shall be asked to appoint another firm acting as expert . |
| 14 | On the other hand , if it is impossible to find any evidence of the congruence between government growth and the requirements of capitalism over a certain period . |
| 15 | The nylon stocking collects a ‘ phenomenal ’ amount of muck in a 24-hour period , says Ken . |
| 16 | To recommend to the council which sanction or sanctions is or are appropriate , for example , termination of membership ( expulsion ) ; suspension of membership for a defined period ; downgrading from fellow to members ; suspension for a specified period from office holding at branch and national level ; reprimand ( by way of rebuke ) ; caution ( by way of warning ) . |
| 17 | ( Their 1991 brochure stated ‘ we usually lend up to 40% of the estimated value of the works of art for a one-year period ’ ) |
| 18 | Life remained at this stage of development for a vast period . |
| 19 | For example , there may be evidence for a sequence of buildings being constructed and going out of use over a long period of time . |
| 20 | In the case of overseas bases , the right of access for a specified period is secured by a treaty between the host state and the lessee . |
| 21 | Two years of stability after a long period of severe hyperinflation have meant that Argentine publishing has begun to show some solidly healthy results . |
| 22 | Gas supply agreements often provide for the supply of gas over a long period , sometimes for a decade or more . |
| 23 | 4.3.4 The Lead Organization undertakes to submit the claims for the agreed payment periods of the Non-academic Parties in consolidated form to the Secretary of State within a reasonable period of their receipt . |
| 24 | Any parent who has had an insomniac or hyperactive child will know the situation in which interruption of sleep over a long period frays tempers and seeks some other scapegoat than the child ; husband and wife may end in screaming at each other across the bedroom . |
| 25 | Taken together , the two quarters showed the weakest rate of growth for a six-month period since March 1972 . |
| 26 | The profile would usually be the number of qualified and unqualified staff required for each span of duty over a 24-hour period . |
| 27 | Out of form over a long period , Lyle did not feel that he would be able to stand the pressure . |
| 28 | Provided there is sufficient interest , tenders should also result in certainty of sale within a defined period . |
| 29 | It was common practice for marriage registers to record the places of abode of the newly-weds , and what Kendall did was to use this information to construct a crude measure of dissimilarity between villages based on frequency of intermarriage over a long period . |
| 30 | Once you have worked with Ami Pro on a given type of document for a reasonable period it is time to define your own palette for that type of document . |