Example sentences of "[prep] a period [be] " in BNC.

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1 Attempting to capture the spirit of a period is another planning strategy for a survey , though this philosophical notion of a Zeitgeist is notoriously elusive .
2 The finance cost for a period is added to the carrying amount and payments deducted from it .
3 The rate of economic growth in Britain slowed down and for a period was in absolute decline .
4 ‘ A measure of the extent to which financial resources obtained during a period are sufficient to cover claims incurred during that period against financial resources .
5 This seems to be at variance with John Jones where a number of incidents over a period were held to be duplicitously charged as a single count of affray .
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