Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Onset of proarrhythmia after a period of stable , long-term drug treatment is probably due to an intervening event such as ischaemia , hypokalaemia , the addition of another drug , or change in drug dose . |
| 2 | This factor was the entry of English into a period of even more buoyant growth , both of student and staff numbers , from the late 1950s . |
| 3 | The monarch stood at the top of a pyramid of aristocracy in a period when most people still assumed society must be run by élites . |
| 4 | Yet the general position had improved enough for the government to proceed to its second level campaign — the creation of nation-wide cultural uniformity through mass education as the chief instrument of modernization in a period when technical means and financial resources were not as yet adequate for fast modernization through industrialization . |
| 5 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 6 | Both the statement and financial figures are expected to relate to a plan for development over a period of 3–4 years . |
| 7 | If you extend £100,000 of credit for a period of one year and during that year the inflation rate averages 10 per cent per annum , you will have effectively lost £1 0,000 even if you are paid in full and right on time . |
| 8 | This amount may be calculated as a fixed percentage of profit for a period , or by adjusting a notional pool of a specified amount by the percentage change in profits compared with the preceding period . |
| 9 | Recent studies from the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) have now seen evidence of the migration of dioxins from chlorine bleached milk cartons into milk after a period of storage . |
| 10 | This method — removing an aggressive nursery school child from play for a period of one minute — was compared by researchers with a scolding and orders not to hit and with a further method of distracting ( i.e. redirecting ) him to other play . |
| 11 | If you were with us at the last occasion of this sort , the last centenary lecture on Gerter , given by Professor Corby , you will remember on that occasion erm he provided a focus of illumination in a period of power cuts , economic gloom and all the rest of it . |
| 12 | Where committed facilities are in existence at the balance sheet date which permit the refinancing of debt for a period beyond its maturity , the earliest date at which the lender has the right to demand repayment should be taken to be the maturity date of the longest refinancing permitted by a facility in respect of which all the following conditions are met : |
| 13 | Double Benefits of £80 per day for a period of up to one year — if you 're hospitalised because of an accident . |
| 14 | While the milk from such farms was declared unfit for sale , farmers were also prevented in most cases from selling their cattle for slaughter for a period of several months . |
| 15 | Because nothing can travel faster than light , an object that can vary its output of energy within a period of a few days can be at best a few light-days across . |
| 16 | If you mark your weight on a graph or chart this should provide a clear and rewarding sign of progress over a period of weeks and months . |
| 17 | The research concentrates on 40 Protestant and Catholic , skilled and semi-skilled , married men in two age groups ( 25-35 and 40-50 ) who will be ‘ followed ’ from the start of their spell of unemployment for a period of up to 17 months ( or until they regain paid work ) , interviews being conducted at approximately 5 month intervals . |
| 18 | As it happens , there is a substantial engine refurbishment contract in the offing which ( although tenders have not yet been invited ) promises to bring someone several tens of millions of pounds in revenue over a period of a few years . |
| 19 | Members still enjoy freedom from arrest for a period extending from 40 days before the commencement of a session to 40 days after it . |
| 20 | In essence there were two general scenarios leading to the award of a DFC : firstly , an instance/incident considered worthy of an immediate award ; and , secondly a non-immediate award in recognition of a period of distinguished service , sometimes highlighting one or two instances . |
| 21 | Truman had to learn through experience in office without a period of gradually accumulating knowledge in a subordinate position . |
| 22 | The appellants considered the mortgage could not be redeemed without their consent unless in accordance with the covenant for repayment over a period of 21 years . |
| 23 | There are also some local variations in the measurements and because of this reliable detection of growth over a period of half a day seems unlikely . |
| 24 | Only three subjects had a feeling of wind before a period of intermittent need for defecation . |
| 25 | It charts the development of still life , genre and landscape painting , the importance of historiae , the changing fashions in portraiture , and the role of art in a period of political and economic flux . |
| 26 | He said , we agree with that , he said we have decided that you will go on the detective staff on probation for a period of six months , and that means that if you like the detective staff and , and if the detective staff like you you will continue . |
| 27 | They have an album of photos showing the house at different stages of completion over a period of 18 months . |
| 28 | In the circumstances in which they were used they powerfully augmented other forces of change by providing data on the state of society at a period when so little was known . |
| 29 | Criticisms of society in the previous century had cleared the path for a vision of childhood as a period of blessed innocence , before social evils could distort the child 's perception of the world . |
| 30 | Garde à vue detention allows the police to detain suspects for interrogation for a period of up to 10 days . |