Example sentences of "and [verb] the period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus was introduced the time when the Created God ceased to be produced solely from all that was good in the struggle for existence , and entered the period , still going on , when mankind itself began to influence the nature of that God . |
| 2 | If the relevant gene(s) could be incorporated into wheat , for example , it would reduce the number of herbicides required and extend the period of application . |
| 3 | The UN General Assembly approved by consensus on Feb. 23 the first international plan to combat illegal drug production and consumption ( estimated by the UN to be worth US$500,000 million a year ) and declared the period 1991-2000 the UN Decade Against Drug Abuse . |
| 4 | On economic grounds it is also prudent for both husband and wife to delay and limit childbearing within marriage , and compress the period devoted to childbearing . |
| 5 | In the same broadcast , Erman announced government proposals to cut armed forces numbers from an estimated 75,000 to 55,000 and to reduce the period of conscription from a year to six months , although in the current year the number of conscripts called up was expected to be doubled . |
| 6 | However , it is a matter of historical record that in the twenties the Ipswich branch had opposed the development of a district organisation and viewed the period following the introduction of the 1924 Adult Education Regulations as one of increasing centralisation . |
| 7 | First , that from the accident and until the plaintiff was discharged from Hunstead Park in May nineteen ninety and second the period the plaintiff has spent at home from such a discharge until now . |
| 8 | Other proposed changes to COSHH include a requirement for a regular review of COSHH assessments and increasing the period for which monitoring and health surveillance records should be kept from 30 to 40 years . |
| 9 | Pamela Allerston came to the conclusion that there was good evidence in Yorkshire for village planning , and suggested the period from 1070 to the end of the thirteenth century for the origin of many villages . |