Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] some period of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What I think was true was that the Falklands was not regarded as a front-line issue for some period of time , and indeed the forecast was that it would n't really boil up again until August or thereabouts in 1982 .
2 In particular , there is no limitation of the remedy by reference to some period of time during which defects will be remedied .
3 Sometimes it was no more than a retaining fee ; sometimes , like a normal feudal holding , it paid the knight for some period of service .
4 Price changes ( or returns ) can be viewed as caused by the arrival of information Over some period of time the price change ( or return ) is the sum of a large number of random effects .
5 A simple measure of the incidence of death during some period of time is given by the crude death rate ( CDR ) :
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