Example sentences of "[prep] [det] given period " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would need to have a sound grasp of English history before you began ; and you would need , at every point , to relate your study of the literature of any given period to the state and development of the language . |
| 2 | First and most basically we can look at the physical nature of the coins of any given period , as the study of the amount of silver or gold bullion in a coin may reveal some historical information . |
| 3 | Time is assumed discrete , but the time period is so short that the probability of two or more vacancies coming to the individual 's notice within any given period is zero . |
| 4 | Bateson 's work is seen as challenging a view of literature as the product of " social forces " in favour of an analysis based upon the language poets had to use in any given period . |
| 5 | She reckoned that she could only take on board a limited number of surprises in any given period , and her quota for the year had just been reached . |
| 6 | Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) . |
| 7 | Alternatively , we could generate crude annual wastage rates based on any given period ( figure 11 ) . |
| 8 | At any given period , their art will be on show somewhere across the world . |
| 9 | Metre , then , may begin in what stress-phonology makes possible at any given period , but it may end in " the foot " having coercive power . |