Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] period before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data from equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) have been binned into 100-trial epochs , and each point shows the mean for the 13e.p.s.ps , each normalized by its mean value during the 500-trial period before the tetanus . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're also required for demonstration work with your own unit during the waiting period before starting the dog-training course . |
| 3 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 4 | For a long period before the 1970s they were Fordist ; in the 1970s/1980s period of structural change neo-Fordism came to dominate . |
| 5 | The Teleuts , however , had been sovereign in their own domains for a long period before the Russians arrived on the scene . |
| 6 | You will remember that Julie Smith was admitted for an emergency appendicectomy and was only in the ward for a short period before going to theatre . |
| 7 | They may for some reason go to a Mother and Baby Home for a short period before and after they have the baby , or even go to live with foster parents . |
| 8 | After two years national service he returned to Newark for a short period before moving to Peterborough in 1952 . |
| 9 | There are some gaps in the surviving records , but for no earlier period , and for no later period before the nineteenth century , can the social fabric of the capital be charted in such a comprehensive way . |
| 10 | Mrs Hayman said the children prepare their own costumes and are encouraged to do their own research into the Victorian period before going to Mickley . |
| 11 | ‘ It appears that consumers are already returning to the high street and are also beginning to consider major financial decisions which were postponed in the uncertain period before the election , ’ said Dr Brian Bailey , Infolink chairman . |
| 12 | ‘ It appears that consumers are already returning to the high street and are beginning to consider major financial decisions , which were postponed in the uncertain period before the election , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The talks covered the holding of elections in Cambodia , the prevention of a return to power by the Khmers Rouges , administration in the transitional period before elections , the restoration of peace and the country 's permanent neutrality , and the issue of US prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action ( POW-MIA ) . |
| 14 | While the Jakarta meeting was taking place the SOC Foreign Minister , Hor Nam Hong , sent a memorandum to the co-chairs of the PICC insisting that the powers of the UNTAC should be " very clearly defined " and that the two rival Cambodian governments should not be dissolved in the transitional period before elections . |
| 15 | In the short period before joining Douglas Reyburn , he worked for five months as an administrator with the National Savings Bank . |
| 16 | The Finance Act 1969 provided , in effect , that on the death of a beneficiary what in 1974 became capital transfer tax , and by the Finance Act 1986 inheritance tax , should be payable upon the proportion of the capital which corresponded to the proportion of the income which the deceased had received within a certain period before his death ( usually seven years ) . |
| 17 | GEMA organized and led the ‘ Change the Constitution ’ movement which had as its objective the prevention of the vice-president taking power in an interim period before an election , and which came to dominate party politics in the mid 1970s . |
| 18 | Postwar holiday consumption patterns in Britain indicate the rapid growth of package holidays in the 1950s , but the roots of this boom are located in an earlier period before the Second World War . |
| 19 | The District Court jury deliberated for almost 25 hours over a six-day period before arriving at its unanimous decision on charges involving conspiracy , lying to Congress and obstructing congressional inquiries . |