Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | For new cars the length of the agreement varies according to whether you buy on contract hire ( commonly known as ‘ lease ’ ) which is for a period of three years , or on hire purchase which can be between four and five years . |
| 2 | And what kind of relationship can you have , if you dare n't even tell your boyfriend you 're on a period ? |
| 3 | Police methodologies of controlling the dangerous classes may well reflect that we are in a period which Foucault ( 1980 ) has described as the ‘ end of an historical epoch ’ . |
| 4 | We are in a period of decisive constitutional significance . |
| 5 | There was for a period of some two months or so in the summer of 1922 a diversion which my mother and aunt enjoyed after the walk . |
| 6 | People told me it is like a period pain , and to start with it was very like a period pain . |