Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the LFS code book , temporary jobs in the first category can include jobs the termination of which " is fixed for , by example , reaching a certain date or completing an assignment , or by return of an employee who has been temporarily replaced " ( our italics ) i.e. jobs that could fit equally well into the second category whilst jobs in the second category are taken to include those with " a work contract for a specific task or a fixed period of time " ( our italics ) i.e jobs that could fit equally well into the first category . |
| 2 | And the outcome of the general election , due next year , would seem to be either a hopelessly splintered parliament or a second period of ‘ co-habitation ’ between a Socialist president and a conservative prime minister . |
| 3 | Float ( i.e. the lapse of time between the end of a work element and the following dependent work element ) or a programmed period of unproductive time within a work element has to be recognized in both the tender and subsequent programmes . |
| 4 | Although a short period of unemployment may be unwelcome and will certainly cause hardship , it is not necessarily disastrous . |
| 5 | The animated debate amongst students and intellectuals before the Seventh National People 's Congress in April indicated that the anti-bourgeois campaign of 1987 was over and that a renewed period of liberalisation was under way . |
| 6 | King Hussein , who had resisted calls from Moslem Brotherhood members of parliament and leftists to boycott the conference , said in an emotional speech on Oct. 12 at a conference of 2,500 elected officials in Amman that he had been assured by the USA that it would " do its utmost " to see that a transitional period of Palestinian " autonomy " in the occupied territories would be negotiated within a year of the conference opening , and announced Jordan 's unconditional acceptance of US terms for the proposed Middle East peace conference . |
| 7 | But shortly before the general election , local authorities throughout Britain were told they did not have to go ahead and that a second period of consultation was to be held . |
| 8 | It pointed out that a prolonged period of profits growth at ISC had ended because of insistence by the auditors that ISC adopt more conservative accounting policies on long term contracts . |
| 9 | He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary , and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous , since it has been honoured only in the breach . |
| 10 | It sought a socialist majority in its own right , but most of its leaders believed that a long period of education and propaganda would be necessary before that majority could be secured . |
| 11 | The imperative for a writer of a chronological survey is that a defined period of time is covered ; this may be linked with a theme , such as the history of styles in Gombrich 's case , but it is unlikely to be linked solely with a spotlight on quality . |
| 12 | It will all come right , now that a different period of history has begun . |
| 13 | The Government 's patients charter suggests that a waiting period of two years is a realistic target , beyond which no individual should have to wait . |
| 14 | It recognized that a longer period of detention might also be required in a ‘ small minority ’ of cases concerned with ‘ grave offences ’ . |
| 15 | yeah but he wondered if just that a short period of time could just get your Lordship a question of |
| 16 | Unlike in certain other European countries , British labour law sets no maximum duration to a temporary employment relationship , whereby all persons employed for longer than a certain period of time automatically have permanent status . |
| 17 | All are influenced by a strongly seasonal climate with abundant rainfall during the summer months and a dry period of between 4 and 8 months . |
| 18 | Let us have in mind , only slightly less imprecisely , a period of light in London and thereabouts , that one I now call yesterday , and a following period of darkness , last night . |
| 19 | A red semi-regular variable in the Great Bear , with a range from 6.8 to 9.1 and a rough period of 198 days ; for part of the time it is an easy binocular object . |
| 20 | After a long period of depression , and a short period of training , he had taken on a new career — one which also demanded dexterity with the hands : that of a mortician . |
| 21 | Despite a programme of Russification ( including a ban on the use of Ukrainian in schools and publications ) , a strongly nationalist movement emerged in the late nineteenth century which led to pressure for greater autonomy and a brief period of independence immediately after the October revolution . |
| 22 | The LCC grant aid scheme offered £2 million to local authorities to buy up land for green belt purposes , and a vigorous period of purchase ensued between 1935 and 1939 . |
| 23 | A report by Barclays Bank economics department in August 1991 stated that " in structural terms the economy has to face the prospect of the single market in the EC and a further period of deregulation " . |
| 24 | If a longer period of time is allowed ( say , 14 days ) the rate of discount will be lower ( say , 2.5% ) . |
| 25 | Spreading ridges can decrease the total volume of the world 's oceans , but a prolonged period of volcanism may also have increased the total volume of water . |
| 26 | Varieties can develop behavioural ‘ isolating mechanisms ’ , such as differences in courtship , which prevent interbreeding even when it is genetically possible — but a brief period of physical isolation is needed to allow the populations to develop the differences that will prevent them blending back together again if they come into contact . |
| 27 | It is significant that a popular monarch , making war at the very start of his reign , after a long period of peace , could only raise such inadequate sums . |
| 28 | After a long period of soothing and occasional stroking he managed to get his arms round her . |
| 29 | After a minimum period of five days stability they were eligible for randomisation and inclusion into the trial . |
| 30 | Zimbabwe became independent in April 1980 as a republic within the Commonwealth , after a 15-year period of unilaterally declared independence under the government of Ian Smith ended in 1979 with the Lancaster House agreement on the Constitution [ see p. 30165 ] . |