Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be recommended that independent psychiatric or psychological assessment is made or that the sufferer is admitted for prolonged assessment over a period of time ( ten days or so ) in daily contact with the group of patients already in treatment . |
| 2 | He was simply lucky , perhaps , that the land which he sold had been allocated for residential purposes in a period when a new suburban city was coming into being . |
| 3 | The abandonment of the gold standard and the devaluation of sterling removed the theoretical justification which the Treatise supplied for public works in a period when bank rate was too high for purposes of domestic equilibrium . |
| 4 | But to return to our historical account , as if the picture was not already complicated enough , the Ministry of Education found its own way of promoting drama — to align it with Physical Education , a policy which was gradually put forward by certain Inspectors for Physical Education over a period of 20 years from about 1945 . |
| 5 | The 1991 Opening Shots Forum considers the opportunities for new directors in a period of great change for the film and television industries , but also in a climate of fast dwindling resources . |