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

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1 It was expected in Kit 's house that there would be some period of study after supper , most nights at any rate .
2 The length of that period depends on the seriousness of the punishment : where there has been any period of imprisonment between six months and thirty months , the conviction becomes " spent " after ten years have elapsed .
3 In the most general sense , the shelf-life of a product is that period of time between its date of manufacture and the date on which it becomes no longer acceptable for whatever reason .
4 The shelf-life is that period of time during which a product stored under market conditions changes from the limit of the release specifications to the limit of the check specification in respect of its least stable parameter .
5 The shelf-life is that period of time during which the value of the least stable parameter changes from the limiting value of the release specification to the limiting value of the check specification .
6 During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death .
7 It is this period of development 's description , with the discussion of Oedipal feelings and conflicts , that reveals Freud 's male-dominated thinking .
8 Included in this unit is another period of time spent in the School Library expanding their research techniques .
9 Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two .
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