Example sentences of "period [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout this period Spanish church music was mainly in the pure Netherland tradition . |
| 2 | • An abnormal clock period due to recurrent episodes of an illness or its treatment . |
| 3 | Or ( for a woman ) is your period due and that is causing you to weigh more than usual ? perhaps you ate more than you realized the previous week ? |
| 4 | Are you constipated at all or ( for women ) is your period due ? |
| 5 | Despite these various arguments suggesting high unemployment from rapid technical change which are based on the foundation laid by him , Leontief has himself , with a colleague ( Leontief and Duchin 1983 ) , recently published the results of a survey of the likely effects of new technology on the US economy up to the year 2000 which concludes that , far from there being net job losses , there will be a substantial rise in the aggregate labour force over this period due to the rapid take-up of the technology . |
| 6 | Mrs Mary Whelan , who lived next to the mine , said she was unable to use her tap water for a long period due to cyanide contamination . |
| 7 | I try to work out if she 's got a period due or if she 's been having trouble with her mother . |
| 8 | Most of the major American universities ( whether public or privately endowed ) have grown in the post-war period due to large defence related expenditure . |
| 9 | In particular , Northern Ireland and Scotland have experienced considerable structural and locational disadvantage in the post war period due to industrial restructuring , a lack of inward investment and an inability to generate sufficient indigenous employment . |
| 10 | I got my period due . |
| 11 | He only regained his place when Tony Harrison broke an arm in the second qualifying round , but his two saves around the half-hour , first scrambling Hughes 's shot around the post , then pawing away Joyce 's looping header , left Preston 's brightest period unrewarded . |
| 12 | To this might be added the impact of Roman period agricultural activity on the landscape in the form of fields , hedges and roads . |
| 13 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 14 | When stocks are held which are unlikely to be sold within the turnover period normal to a company , the impending delay in realisation increases the risk that deterioration or obsolescence will occur before the stocks are sold . |
| 15 | Or rather , to have the rules of that former period prevailing now . |
| 16 | But after this period economic policy showed some moderation . |
| 17 | Power up front will be former Dublin & South Eastern locomotive 461 which is now kept at Mullingar , pulling the society 's 1950 's style carriages with their distinctive green livery of that period complete with C.I.E . |
| 18 | After that , growth was relatively slow up to 1981 — during which period high unemployment built up ; and then again faster — despite which unemployment , though now failing , has remained high . |
| 19 | He 'd even got the gestation period wrong , but given the rest of it this was a minor consideration . |
| 20 | One specialist in this field , Solopark near Pampisford just off the M11 in Cambridgeshire , claims to be the country 's major centre for reclaimed building materials and period architectural items . |
| 21 | Over the same period French industrial production rose 1.9% , but Sweden 's output fell 2.1% . |
| 22 | We were never given any long period free from a fight from the coast to a target and hack … |
| 23 | It tends to run with a period different from that of a solar day ! |
| 24 | In making his decision , he seeks the advice of the judiciary , but if he has good reason for doing so , he is , as a matter of law , entitled to set a tariff period different from that recommended by the judges . |
| 25 | In the 15 subjects in whom antral and upper intestinal recordings were not available , the relation to phase 3 of the migrating motor complex could only be determined indirectly by the temporal relation of non-deglutitive pressure waves in the oesophageal body with the non-deglutitive plastic contractions of the lower oesophageal sphincter ( this represented the sphincteric component of phase 3 of the migrating motor complex that occurred during the 10- 15 minute period preceding phase 3 in the antrum or proximal jejunum , as shown previously by others . ) |
| 26 | These totals were then correlated with each patient 's period maximal diurnal variation in peak expiratory flow ( maximum evening value minus minimum morning value divided by maximum evening value ) , PC 2 histamine , and anxiety score . |
| 27 | Again , Ortega 's reflections on politics provide an excellent sounding-board for discussion of the events of the years 1900-1931 : a period crucial to an understanding of the causes and result of the Spanish Civil War . |
| 28 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 29 | James played the second period unaware of the seriousness of his problem . |
| 30 | Volcanoes emit very large concentr very large amounts of hydrochloric acid as a gas H C L gas and earlier in the earth 's history volcanic activity was much , much more widespread than it is now and during this period vast amounts of H C L were emitted . |