Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] period before " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For a long period before the 1970s they were Fordist ; in the 1970s/1980s period of structural change neo-Fordism came to dominate . |
| 3 | The Teleuts , however , had been sovereign in their own domains for a long period before the Russians arrived on the scene . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After two years national service he returned to Newark for a short period before moving to Peterborough in 1952 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |