Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dickinson , a cautious man , advocated limited innovations — in particular an agreement among states to observe a cooling-off period in international disputes , during which mediation could proceed and public opinion could mobilize against war . |
| 2 | In the horse , T. axei has a prepatent period of 25 days while in game birds infected with T. tenuis it is only 10 days . |
| 3 | Islamic rule prescribes a 40-day period of abstinence , i.e. a " natural " period until the possible date of the first menstrual onset . |
| 4 | The one major attempt to apply the Third period model in Latin America , in El Salvador in 1932 ( where the Comintern operated through International Red Aid ) , was quickly and brutally suppressed by a massacre of over 30,000 people . |
| 5 | The coup attempt followed a prolonged period of economic recession within Trinidad and Tobago , which saw gross national product ( GNP ) fall by more than 30 per cent between 1982 and 1990 and unemployment rise to over 22 per cent . |
| 6 | Extrasure is this year one of the first insurers to reduce the qualifying period to eight hours . |
| 7 | The building of the complex spanned a long period , from the foundation of the cathedral in 1063 to the completion of the campanile in 1350 , but the whole group is one stylistic unit . |
| 8 | They came each year in tens of thousands before the Civil War , in hundreds of thousands for the twenty years after it , until the completion of the railway network and the advance of the plough on the prairies brought the classical period of the ‘ Wild West ’ ( which was essentially a cattle economy ) to an end in the 1880s . |
| 9 | A request by opposition parties to allow a transitional period during which the newly formed parties could prepare for elections was refused on the grounds that the election dates were specified in the Constitution . |
| 10 | In order to prevent the company from being sold beneath the management 's feet , it is essential that the parties agree an exclusive period of time during which the vendor agrees not to negotiate with third parties . |
| 11 | Candidates have a 5-year period to accumulate the module certificates required to make up the full group awards of : |
| 12 | Demonstrations flared up again after the Tajik Supreme Soviet accepted in emergency closed session on April 30 a proposal from Nabiyev to introduce a six-month period of presidential rule ; Kenjayev was reinstated as Supreme Soviet Chair on May 3 . |
| 13 | Transfer times cover the average period taken from leaving the airport to arriving in your resort . |
| 14 | Following the revolution of 1905 Russia experienced a further period of rapid economic and social change . |
| 15 | Yet between the recognition of a dispute which may end in a trial and its actual arrival before the judge lies a lengthy period of negotiation before or during the operation of the formal pre-trial procedure . |
| 16 | In 1984 the Housing and Building Control Act reduced the qualifying period of tenancy from three years to two and increased the maximum discount from 50 per cent to 60 per cent , and this was followed by the Housing and Planning Act of 1986 which increased the discounts available on flats to 70 per cent . |
| 17 | Federman sees the postmodern period as one in which the media have taken over the informational role of fiction , drastically reducing its status . |
| 18 | Once this had been achieved , the plan envisaged a transitional period leading to " full and fair elections " during which the UN would play " an enhanced role " , although the level of UN involvement was not specified . |
| 19 | Williamson and Rainey have made the important observation that ileal resection reduces the latent period for tumour formation but not the overall tumour yield . |
| 20 | At that time in the fifties , it was heresy to extend the Romano-British period beyond AD 400 . |
| 21 | From the point of view of highway planning the post-war period began with the Ministry of War Transport 's Report Design and layout of roads in built-up areas ( 1946 ) . |
| 22 | This was designed both to decentralise the delivery of services through mini-town halls , and to generate local plans which would feed into an overall local authority or corporate plan spanning a four-year period . |
| 23 | At the end of the exercise have a short period of conversation while you concentrate on the fingertips on your larynx and on feeling the right degree of voice volume , your friend keeping check for you on the right amount of voice volume and indicating if it becomes too loud or too quiet . |
| 24 | The circular states that income to cover a certain period should be ignored as capital for that period . |
| 25 | Secondly , they may send both the documentation and the program to the potential purchaser allowing a limited period during which the package can be used and evaluated . |
| 26 | Hamburg covers the whole period during which the carrier is in charge of the goods at the ports of loading and discharge . |
| 27 | In every case the accused teacher suffered a lengthy period of suspension before being told that the allegation had been withdrawn or that no proceedings would be instituted against them . |
| 28 | Mr Alistair Darling , a Labour front bench Home Affairs spokesman , had moved the amendment to extend the qualifying period . |
| 29 | The total drop in the audit fee of £0.7m is made more dramatic because of the fact that in the previous year the audit fee covered a 15-month period . |
| 30 | Second , a large proportion of the older workers had a long period of service with the same company before being made redundant . |