Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] [art] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 2 | And eventually after a period of time that ins outer insulation will wear down , it will fray and it will break and it will expose the live and the neutral wires until , unfortunately sometimes , it will be a little bit too late . |
| 3 | However , fearing that the UN force would legitimize the loss of its territory to Serbia , Croatia also continued to insist that the force should be deployed only on the 560-km front lines and only for a period of six months . |
| 4 | In the twentieth century and especially in the period since 1945 , more and more workers have moved into service industries . |
| 5 | It is much better to build up endurance levels gradually and gently over a period of weeks and months . |
| 6 | A typical building of 10 storeys will sway back and forth in a period of 1 second , giving it a natural frequency of 1 cycle per second or 1 hertz . |
| 7 | More and more decisions seem to have been concentrated not merely in Westminster or Whitehall but , increasingly , and particularly during the period of office of the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) , in No. 10 Downing street . |
| 8 | This was discussed with the Jones who resolutely maintained that now that ‘ the problem ’ was solved they were going back to normal and apart from the period of intervention they had not changed what they did at all . |