Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commonly , sales forecasting for a period of up to one year ahead is differentiated from sales and market forecasting for longer periods . |
| 2 | Well then while I was serving as a detective , you can just imagine I made plenty of arrests , and I got along reasonably well with most people , but there was one man I hated yes I hated him , I , I 'd only been a detective I should think for a period of about , oh five or six months , and a man , he called on the Reverend who was the , the vicar of St. Mary where |
| 3 | They were well known in Shakespeare 's time , for in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , Titania remarks about a period of unseasonable weather : |
| 4 | Wihtred 's long reign , though devoid of known incident , is distinguished as a period of close co-operation between the royal court and the Church in Kent under Archbishop Beorhtwald . |
| 5 | Spain lived through a period of being isolated from Europe and the rest of the world ; González 's biggest card remains the memory of Franco . |
| 6 | Naykene had written an article in which he alleged that all members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council , which ruled for a period in 1979 , had benefited from an illegal foreign loan . |
| 7 | ( i ) where the specified event happens in respect of a member , any share registered in his name may , notwithstanding paragraph ( 1 ) of this Rule , remain so registered for a period of not longer than six months from the date of the specified event ; provided that no voting rights shall be exercised in respect of any such share while it remains so registered ; and |
| 8 | ( i ) where the specified event happens in respect of a member , any share registered in his name may , notwithstanding paragraph ( 1 ) of this Rule , remain so registered for a period of not longer than six months from the date of the specified event ; provided that no voting rights shall be exercised in respect of any such share while it remains so registered ; and |
| 9 | Mosley undoubtedly had admirers in important social positions , including for a period Lord Rothermere , and had access to a wide range of the politically influential . |
| 10 | Every teenager goes through a period of deciding who he really is . |
| 11 | The proposal was that His Majesty would invite certain individuals as individuals to take upon their shoulders the burden of carrying on the Government and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuel ( sic ) had stated that they were prepared to act accordingly … the Administration would not exist for a period longer than was necessary to dispose of the emergency , and when that purpose was achieved the political parties would resume their respective positions . |
| 12 | She is thinking of her new novel ( ‘ Letting it germinate for a period ’ ) and seems very busy and hungry . |
| 13 | Such regions are designated for a period of five years and are specifically defined to be those areas ( NUTS Level II ) where per capita GDP in PPSs is less than 75 per cent of the Community average . |
| 14 | NHS professionals normally perceive day hospitals as a possible alternative to hospital admission for people who are acutely ill and can not be treated as outpatients or at home , as a place for recently discharged short-term in-patients to attend for a period while settling back into normal life , and as a place to treat , monitor and give social support to long-term patients who would otherwise live isolated lives . |
| 15 | ‘ These countries are going to go through a period of not only political but also economic instability for some time to come , ’ he says . |
| 16 | From the president down , the policymakers have always appreciated that Germany was bound to go through a period of introversion . |
| 17 | Finally , you may expect her to go through a period of depression when she is ceasing to try to avoid the reality of her loss . |
| 18 | Whenever we suffer a major loss in our lives — such as the death of a loved one , divorce , redundancy , miscarriage , children leaving home , or the end of a love affair — we need to go through a period of mourning . |
| 19 | Many doctors think that it is important for parents to recognize these feelings and to go through a period of mourning for their lost imaginary baby … |
| 20 | Thus , for example , if people believe that the stock market is about to go through a period of ‘ boom ’ with share prices going up rapidly , they will switch some of their wealth into stocks and shares . |
| 21 | Dicey lived during a period of great political and economic change , a period in which the range and the functions of government expanded greatly and in which legislation was used explicitly as a method of changing social conditions . |
| 22 | Spare Rib was already well established , and was joined for a period by the Leveller , another collective magazine , and the East End News , which produced the first attempt to appeal to ‘ the masses ’ of East London by dressing up Right-On concerns in chirpy Chas'n'Dave-style modernized Cockney . |
| 23 | This reiterated the belief , common among all those concerned with the youth question , that ‘ adolescence ’ should be regarded as a period of education , supervision , control , and guidance . |
| 24 | For example , W. A. Speck 's work on division lists for Queen Anne 's reign shows that the vast majority of MPs voted consistently either Whig or Tory , with a mere 12.2 per cent wavering in their allegiance , whilst in a similar analysis of division lists for William 's reign , usually regarded as a period when party conflict was less clearly defined , Henry Horwitz found that only 14 per cent of MPs voted across party lines . |
| 25 | It is apparently most excusable to rape your wife if she has for a period refused sexual intercourse ‘ unjustifiably ’ or if she has refused sexual intercourse unless her housekeeping money were raised , or even , curiously , ‘ in order to win her back . ’ |
| 26 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 27 | The finance cost for a period is added to the carrying amount and payments deducted from it . |
| 28 | After this phase there follows what Freud described as a period of latency during which the sexuality of a child lies dormant . |
| 29 | Does he further agree that the time has come for a period of consolidation ? |
| 30 | I like doing jobs where I can get down and concentrate for a period |