Example sentences of "[verb] in a [adj] period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not therefore surprising that computing laboratories in universities put limits on the amount of output that users can expect in a given period of time . |
| 2 | They were built in a vital period of political turmoil , growing republican nationalism , and American and British imperialism , formal and informal . |
| 3 | On the one side ‘ safe ’ operations are unlikely to produce the high returns that will be needed in a prolonged period of financial stringency . |
| 4 | The New Oxford English Dictionary Project requires a sophisticated and novel computer system to be built and commissioned in a short period of time . |
| 5 | Through contacts formed in a previous period of field work with poor urban women of this category , the investigator is proposing to hold long open-ended discussions with a sample of older women and their daughters on the subject of AIDS : e.g. their knowledge of the epidemiology of the disease , the method of its transmission and finally their assessment of their own risk of contracting the disease . |
| 6 | They were told that the underlying constipation can not be treated in a short period of time . |
| 7 | However , the importance of the semantic analyser relative to the other modules constitutes a narrower issue and one that can be investigated in a reasonable period of time . |
| 8 | By er failing even once to meet a reasonable demand for a for something to eat in a short period of time , then there 's a knock on effect to our business . |
| 9 | So , a story set in contemporary Britain is likely to be easier ( for British pupils ) than one set in a different period of history or in a different culture or environment . |