Example sentences of "a [adj] period [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , apart from the odd practice session and a brief period recovering from illness , Morrissey was completely detached from Marr , Joyce and Rourke . |
| 2 | Congress granted emergency legislative powers to President Alberto Keinya Fujimori , for a 150-day period starting from June 18 , to draft a national peace policy to combat increased guerrilla activity and drug-related terrorism , and to foster an improvement in the economic climate , marred by major strikes [ see below ] . |
| 3 | It covered the demobilization , repatriation or relocation of the contras over a 90-day period beginning on Sept. 8 ( i.e. by Dec. 5 ) . |
| 4 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 5 | They would operate under a single EC air licence and after a transitional period lasting until April 1 , 1997 , would be free to run domestic services in other EC states . |