Example sentences of "in a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Souness admits his players had Spartak on their minds at Spurs on Saturday , and when Ray Clemence says Liverpool are in a transitional period , you know they have problems . |
| 2 | The incidence rate measures how many new cases of a disease appear in a given period , whereas the prevalence rate measures how many cases in total exist , either at one point of time ( the point prevalence rate ) , or in a fixed period ( the period prevalence rate ) . |
| 3 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 4 | For example , a doctor may be able to see more patients each hour and he may be being more efficient by seeing more people in a fixed period of time . |
| 5 | Some of the descriptions of working-class life had been so strange , so remote from the Oswaldston that Greg had come to know , as to seem to belong to a foreign land , in a remote period of history . |
| 6 | The next chapter , however , had him going to Grimsby University , ‘ to keep the torch of literature alive in a dark period ’ . |
| 7 | This forced the Central Bank , in a 10-day period up to Sept. 13 , to buy $800,000,000 in US dollars , to prevent Brazilian exports being priced out of the market . |
| 8 | They must prove to Thadeus that they 're here to destroy what he hates , and they 've got to do this in a reasonable period of time . |
| 9 | However , the importance of the semantic analyser relative to the other modules constitutes a narrower issue and one that can be investigated in a reasonable period of time . |
| 10 | On the one side ‘ safe ’ operations are unlikely to produce the high returns that will be needed in a prolonged period of financial stringency . |
| 11 | ‘ Ordinarily I would have commented in some detail about our business , but can not do so at this time as we are in a closed period prior to the announcement of our 1992 results on 24 March ’ . |
| 12 | But a study of the distribution of the hoards deposited in a well-documented period such as the English Civil War has shown that both of these assumptions are incorrect ( fig. 27 ) . |
| 13 | Like everyone else 's in this period , his life became one of monotony and anxiety , caught in a middle period when pre-war life seemed unreal and post-war life unimaginable . |
| 14 | Hewitt and Burton ( 1971 ) analysed the record for southwestern Ontario and found that in a 50-year period there would be 1 severe drought , 2 major windstorms , 5 severe snowstorms , 8 severe hurricanes , 10 severe glaze storms , 16 severe floods , 25 severe hailstorms and 39 tornadoes . |
| 15 | In a three-week period , the company logged 5,600 lust-in-denim calls . |
| 16 | The survey disclosed that in a three-week period , 309 vessels had passed through the firth and that 94 had refused to identify themselves . |
| 17 | As we have already discussed , bright light acts as a time-cue in humans and so might be helping patients not only because it fell in a critical period ( though how this might work is still not known ) , but in addition , or instead , because it adjusted the body clock and so removed a conflict of timing between the patient 's body clock and his sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 18 | ONE of your contributors recently stated that we were now in a post-apartheid period . |
| 19 | Here is a market place in a certain town , in a certain period , with the inhabitants setting about their daily tasks as the sun rises . |
| 20 | It is necessary , in other words , to establish a clear distinction between an existence as it was lived in the prewar period , and an existence as it was mythically reproduced in a postwar period . |
| 21 | The worms are ovo-viviparous the L1 being passed in the faeces ; these penetrate the foot of the molluscan intermediate host , and develop to L3 in a minimum period of 2-3 weeks . |
| 22 | Government policy and company policy alike have to take a view of long term trends and possibilities , particularly in a future period that may see the UK 's decline as an oil exporter . |
| 23 | They 're in a crucial period and you can help see them safely through it . |
| 24 | However little detailed research has been undertaken into how these innovations were developed and implemented , and this project will make use of the unique Company Archive of the Thomas cook organisation to investigate the detailed circumstances of product development in a crucial period of the Company 's development from 1850 to 1939 , during which the foundations of the modern tourist industry were laid . |
| 25 | The producers who supervise Radio 1 sessions tend to be musicians who are used to coaxing good performances out of young bands in a limited period of time . |
| 26 | in a four-year period — I have also included provisions to enable work on the A77 Ayr road route to start within the planning programme period . |
| 27 | Doors and bolts had been fixed , but in a three-month period it was said that ‘ 14 dozen locks ’ had been broken , the children had burned down the door , and even iron gates had not stopped them from gaining access to the roof and throwing stones on people below . |
| 28 | Her research showed that more than 200 prescriptions for such drugs were issued in a three-month period . |
| 29 | A Home Office report of 1981 on racial attacks estimated the rates of racially motivated incidents per 100,000 of the population at 1.4 for whites , 51.2 for West Indians and Africans , and 69.7 for Asians in a three-month period . |
| 30 | A study in one polytechnic found that 11% of the bookstock was in circulation , while in another two samples taken from law and the humanities revealed that three issues per volume was the average use per annum , and that two-thirds of the items were loaned in a two-year period . |