Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting . |
| 2 | It was the kingdom of the Franks which was to exercise most influence for the longest period of time . |
| 3 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 4 | In addition , the copyright monopoly is only given for a certain period of time ( eg in the UK , 50 years from the end of the year in which the author dies ) , but databases are usually continuously updated with new information , therefore does the protection period keep changing ? |
| 5 | Therefore , in the subsequent 56 patients adjuvant therapy with chenodeoxycholic acid 7 mg/kg/day and ursodeoxycholic acid 5 mg/kg/ day was given for an arbitrary period of three months after the procedure . |
| 6 | Patients who presented as emergencies were excluded , as were patients treated during the same period of time with cancers arising in a background of familial Polyposis coli or long standing ulcerative colitis . |
| 7 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
| 8 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 9 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 10 | Lord Ackner stated that : There is clearly no reason in English contract law why A , for good consideration , should not achieve an enforceable agreement whereby B , agrees for a specified period of time not to negotiate with anyone except A in relation to the sale of his property … |
| 11 | Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change . |
| 12 | The statutory power to recommend a minimum period might , in practice , have been used to create a tariff among the judges for all murders , so that the recommended minimum came to be regarded as the appropriate period of detention , subject only to the question whether the prisoner was a danger to the public when it expired . |
| 13 | All sorts of schemes were thought up to keep people busy and occupied during the trying period of ‘ waiting to be demobbed . ’ |
| 14 | Also by virtue of its ability to predict whether a company will survive for a given period of time , it can give the credit manager more confidence to enter into long term relationships with customers . |
| 15 | As in the preparasitic stage , growth of the larva during parasitic development is interrupted by two moults , each of these occurring during a short period of lethargus . |
| 16 | The British LFS permits temporary workers to differentiate themselves between those engaged on a seasonal , temporary or casual basis and those contracted to work for a fixed period of time or to undertake a fixed task . |
| 17 | Yet it is known that between one third and one half of mentally handicapped people currently resident in mental handicap hospitals should not be in hospital and could be either immediately discharged or discharged after a short period of training . |
| 18 | It should be noted that cl 3.2 gives a right to reject for latent defects that could not have been discovered upon examination and which appear after a reasonable period of use . |
| 19 | In most cases , this initial period will count towards the minimum period of study for the degree . |
| 20 | Applicants are registered in the first instance as supervised postgraduate students ; this initial period will count towards the minimum period of study for the degree . |
| 21 | Would these principles survive into the next period of change in the 1990s , or had they outlived their time ? |
| 22 | Unlike a probation order , which was not regarded as a sentence of the Court , a suspended sentence ranked not merely as a sentence , but as a sentence of imprisonment , with a condition attached which activated the element of custodial confinement only if another offence was committed within a stated period of not less than one year nor more than two ( originally three ) years . |
| 23 | In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops . |
| 24 | It is widely accepted that the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century was preceded by a long period of gradual economic growth , but when the upturn began remains uncertain . |
| 25 | Admittedly the current burst of improvement dates back only to the Renaissance , which was preceded by a dismal period of stagnation , in which European scientific culture was frozen at the level achieved by the Greeks . |
| 26 | Fifteen years ago they began to offer market-related interest rates on wholesale deposits , deposits in excess of a large minimum , made for a fixed period of time . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) It is generally acceptable to state that an offer will not be made for a particular period of time . |
| 28 | In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest . |
| 29 | This appears to be subject to an exception where the licence was granted for a limited period of time and for a specific purpose . |
| 30 | This concession will be granted for an initial period of five years with possible extension after that . |