Example sentences of "a [adj] period which " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the exclusion is for a fixed period which would bring the aggregate exclusion in any term to more than five days or would involve the pupil missing a public examination , the governors or LEA may order the reinstatement of the pupil and the head teacher would be bound to comply with the direction . |
| 2 | in 1938 for a thesis on eighteenth-century English political history ; third , as a tutorial fellow ( 1945 ) who effectively combined a heavy teaching programme with research ; fourth , as senior tutor ( 1946–53 ) , a long period which greatly widened his experience ; and , finally , as an outstanding master from 1957 until his death . |
| 3 | He spent five years in the top job , a hectic period which embraced not only the collapse of communism in eastern Europe , but , at the very end , the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War . |
| 4 | There is a rough period which is said to be around 2070 days or just over 5½ years , but it is rough . |
| 5 | The US Energy Department needs to find a site to store nuclear waste accumulated over a forty-year period which will remain dangerously radioactive for tens of thousands of years . |
| 6 | after a latent period which can vary in length , deterioration and acute attacks of diarrhoea re-occur , if the objectionable types of meal are added to the diet too soon … . ’ |
| 7 | For example , it could be that after initial investment has taken place further capital investment may be required in a subsequent period which , in that year , is greater than the firm 's net trading cash inflows . |