Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] the [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | France , under-rated by many , has outgrown Germany throughout the postwar period . |
| 2 | In Europe , for example , the removal of temperate forest began more than 5 kyr BP when permanent agricultural systems replaced the hunting and gathering strategies of the mesolithic period ( sections 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 ) ; and has continued ever since , though post-war afforestation policies have redressed the balance to some extent ( section 8.2 ) . |
| 3 | Such information allows them to plan ahead , using data from the previous period perhaps to make corrections after the next pass of the satellite over Chilton . |
| 4 | Excluding the mining machinery business that contributed £85million in the corresponding period , before disposal , turnover put on almost £70million to £337.5million . |
| 5 | This will include references to the post-1868 period but the main body of the study will be concentrated on the years after the Second World War . |
| 6 | In contrast none of the 27 homosexual men who seroconverted ( p=0.007 compared to drug users who seroconverted ) and only three of the 177 ( 2% ) of the drug users negative for HIV ( p=0.0002 compared to drug users who seroconverted ) reported pneumonia in the preceding period . |
| 7 | Failure to do so will mean that your efforts in negotiating long-term security of tenure might be in vain , as you could eventually find the shareholders deciding to bring your contract to a premature end and discover that you are unable to claim compensation for the full period during which you expected to work . |
| 8 | Export growth over the same period has shown an increase of only 36 per cent which , although better than the world average growth of 28 per cent , is clearly not sufficient to cover the large increase in import demand . |
| 9 | Definition : Consumption can be regarded as total expenditure by households on goods and services which yield utility in the current period . |
| 10 | Consumption is seen as households ' spending on goods and services which yield utility in the current period , while saving is defined as that part of disposable income which is not spent . |
| 11 | Therefore tax computations for the relevant period , including the calculation of the surplus ACT , must be submitted as soon as possible . |
| 12 | Both may be guessing , although the Encomiast is reasonably well-informed on the campaigns late in Æthelred II's reign , and William 's report of mixed methods need not be far wrong , even if it is a guess ; the armies which troubled England over the long period between c.985 and 1016 do often seem to have comprised the warbands of a number of men , are unlikely to have been organised and commanded solely by Danish kings , did not consist entirely of Danes , and frequently appear to have been motivated mainly by a desire for booty . |
| 13 | Unix licence revenues increased 43% over the third quarter of fiscal 1992 , with Desktop licence sales growing 35% over the prior period , and the two together comprised 75% of total licence revenues for the quarter , compared with 69% of total licence revenues a year ago . |
| 14 | Unix licence revenues increased 43% over the third quarter of fiscal 1992 , with Desktop licence sales growing 35% over the prior period , and the two together comprised 75% of total licence revenues for the quarter , compared with 69% of total licence revenues a year ago . |
| 15 | Likewise , the optimal output level falls as the horizon approaches , reaching the level at which marginal cost equals the ( unconditional ) mean price in the final period . |
| 16 | In the museum right now , both physical and intellectual distances separate objects of the same period , style and culture . |
| 17 | First , there is the problem of rising crime during the so-called period of affluence . |
| 18 | Finance charges are allocated to accounting periods over the primary period of the lease and represent a constant proportion of the balance of capital payments outstanding . |
| 19 | However , the majority of people will still retire without any formal support , and it is likely that the counsellor will be involved with those who are experiencing problems in the post-retirement period . |
| 20 | Quite possibly this sense of self-worth was lost by the relatively isolated suburban wife of the regularly employed man during the inter-war period . |
| 21 | Patients who have pre-existing problems or who are undergoing major operations , in particular on the gut or urinary tract may , however , develop problems in the post-operative period . |
| 22 | Her insistence on the importance of middle-class women 's participation in social disciplining was clearly an attempt to guard against their displacement by the growing authority of state sanctioned professionals in the mid-Victorian period . |
| 23 | This view will be related to the determinate sentence that would have been passed but for the element of mental instability and/or public risk which led the judge to pass a life sentence and will also take account of the notional period of the sentence which a prisoner might expect to have been remitted for good behaviour had a determinate sentence been passed . |
| 24 | As one survey of tactics to control bureaucracy in the post-Mao period concluded : |
| 25 | The study of language , literature , and history was also substantially influenced by the general process of higher academic specialization which took place during the same period . |
| 26 | Tipperary after local opposition , saying the Raybestos case was worse as the Ovens objectors were trying to force changes after the statutory period for planning objections had long passed : ‘ Foreign companies coming to this country and adhering to our planning conditions will begin wondering if they can go ahead at all if they see the assurances of the IDA and the planning authorities are not the final assurances . ’ |
| 27 | Inspection of these optimality conditions reveals that the reservation price falls as the horizon T approaches , reaching zero in the final period ( in which the optimal strategy is to sell everything , regardless of the ( non-negative ) price ) . |
| 28 | As a result , the body would not normally receive light during the critical period , but it would do so if the patient stayed awake all night or got up early . |
| 29 | This in effect means that there is an onus on the Insured to notify all changes which have taken place during the previous period of insurance . |
| 30 | This chapter will concentrate on these ‘ historical sketches ’ as a way of illustrating in general terms the pattern of ‘ de-alignment ’ or the loosening of ties between the press and the political parties which has taken place from the mid-Victorian period onwards . |