Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] short period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly a PSBR of this order , which is more than 8 per cent of GDP , is not tenable except for a short period . |
| 2 | Clearly a PSBR of this order , which is more than 8 per cent of GDP , is not tenable except for a short period . |
| 3 | Following the pattern of community constables in England , where the overwhelming majority are male ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 9 ) , there are no females among Easton 's neighbourhood constables , although for a short period the sergeant was female . |
| 4 | These jennies were either collected in small workshops or placed out in cottages and seem to have brought increased earnings to many women in the cloth-working families , albeit for a short period until the machines got larger and , more importantly , the largely male-worked spinning mule began to replace the jenny . |
| 5 | Because of the short period between birth and marketing , the treatment of PGE in lambs is an inferior policy compared with the preventive measures discussed below . |
| 6 | The data will also permit dynamic analysis since within the short period of 70 years covered by these records , villagers lived first under three resident minor gentlemen , then under a powerful and well connected one ( Nathaniel Bacon ) and , finally , under an absentee one ( Sir Roger Townshend ) . |
| 7 | To save precious fuel , sheep were occasionally used on the front field instead of a motor-mower to keep the grass in check , though it probably did not matter too much , as for a short period the field could no longer be used anyway for Games , owing to the telegraph poles and other obstacles laid and dug there to thwart landings by German gliders and paratroopers . |