Example sentences of "[be] [prep] a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If two systems have been for a period of time in dynamical isolation from each other , then a measurement on the first system can produce no real change in the second . |
| 2 | The view that the major industrial nations are in a period of transition — at the end of a long period of industrialism and entering a new phase of post-industrialism — pre-dates the onset of deindustrialization and the debates around the issue . |
| 3 | We are in a period of decisive constitutional significance . |
| 4 | If so , the disqualification may be for a period of five years , universally in the case of a corrupt practice or within the particular constituency in which the offence took place in the case of an illegal practice . |
| 5 | The appointment will be for a period of up to two years and will be made on the Research Support 1A salary scale £ to £ per annum . |
| 6 | This sort of placement or residency would be for a period of time , perhaps weeks or months , so there must be a commitment of time as well as purpose on the part of the artist . |
| 7 | Sir , in June nineteen ninety two Mrs Brown er successfully obtained temporary work working for the Nottingham Community Hospice as a nursing auxiliary and the work was initially intended to be for a period of about three months . |
| 8 | The ‘ unfair extraction ’ right shall be for a period of 10 years . |
| 9 | It would assume presidential powers " until the necessary conditions are provided for the normal functioning of institutions and the constitutional order " , which would be for a period until December 1993 at the latest . |
| 10 | If so , it would surely only be after a period of mourning . |
| 11 | Withdrawal should be over an period of time to allow the Northern Irish time to establish a new form of government . |
| 12 | No , it 's been , it 's been over a period of two or three years ? |
| 13 | There is a relation to age , with younger and very old people being more field-dependent but with those over 24 being in a period of relative stability , having reached greater field independence . |
| 14 | Virgin were in a period of acute stagnation , desperately in need of a change . |
| 15 | Moorish Spain came into being over a period of several hundred years — from the period of the first Moslem conquest in the eighth century , to the eventual re-conquest by Christians from the north of the peninsula in the later part of the thirteenth century . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However , common sense dictates that for a boy of 14 to be away from home and unsupported with no income , home or friends , is a very serious , vulnerable and lonely situation for him to be in , especially when this is for a period of three months . |
| 18 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Epping Forest pointed out , 39 mortgage payers out of 40 are not in arrears with their mortgages , and that is after a period of unprecedented expansion of owner-occupation . |
| 19 | After the storm of the breakdown , Europe is in a period of convalescence , perhaps sedated convalescence . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps they may think the sport is in a period of relative driving mediocrity , ’ answered Jackie . |
| 21 | ‘ Villette ’ starts in the narrator 's girlhood , and takes place over several years ; ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ is over a period of three or four days . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Twelfth-century Germany was in a period of expansion ; the population was increasing rapidly , agriculture and trade were booming , and towns were growing substantially . |
| 24 | Colin Howes , Branson 's lawyer , perhaps recognised better than most that Branson was in a period of significant transition . |
| 25 | The United Kingdom holiday industry was in a period of rapid change and flux in late 1985 and this is likely to continue for some years to come . |