Example sentences of "to a [adj] period [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , in this latter case a casual and a short-term contract worker are in many ways indistinguishable , since , as we have seen in Chapter 1 , it is only after four weeks employment that a worker is entitled to a minimum period of notice . |
| 2 | It was the end to a protracted period of trauma and uncertainty for the management and employees of the company , which had begun at the beginning of the year when the rumours that Gardner Merchant was for sale had begun to circulate . |
| 3 | But if we turn to consider the [ … ] supply price with reference to a long period of time , we shall find that it is governed by a different set of causes , and with different results . |
| 4 | Here we see an illustration of the almost universal law that the term Normal being taken to refer to a short period of time an increase in the amount demanded raises the normal supply price . [ … ] |
| 5 | In serious cases , consideration should be given to a brief period of suspension while the case is investigated and this suspension should be with pay . |
| 6 | But in Russia the masses refused to do so , refused to resign themselves to an indefinite period of subjection to capitalist exploitation . |