Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm that period has also had a period of growth within it , and I feel that 's a reasonable basis to go forward on . |
| 2 | A graduate in urban and regional planning , he originally worked for the Urban Wildlife Trust in Birmingham and also spent a period as an environmental planning consultant . |
| 3 | The Geevor tin mine , near Land 's End , also entered a period of restricted production . |
| 4 | The Roman Catholic Church also entered a period of renewed growth , particularly in Lancashire and other parts of the country where Irish people settled in large numbers . |
| 5 | These years clearly constituted a period of transition . |
| 6 | I have n't had a period since November 1991 . |
| 7 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 8 | By this time I was 5ft 7in , weighed six stone , was covered in boils , had a mouthful of ulcers and had n't had a period for four months . |
| 9 | The universe would have then undergone a period of rapid expansion , as in the inflationary models . |
| 10 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |
| 11 | Next week I shall be talking with Graham Mayhew , who has recently completed a period in office as Mayor of Lewes . |
| 12 | Water and Ventilation has recently undergone a period of consolidation and the branch structure has been altered in order to meet our needs for 1992 , this is already bearing fruit as the most recent quarter produced some great sales . |
| 13 | Rejected contemptuously by Sartre in 1968 as an integral part of the conservative forces of reaction , the PCF has subsequently entered a period of possibly irreversible decline during the 1970s and 1980s . |