Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ex-French territories of North Africa the sudden removal of Frenchmen from all senior and technical posts caused severe problems for the railways for a period after independence . |
| 2 | Birth parents may relinquish their child for adoption at the time of birth or at a subsequent date , possibly having cared for the child over a period of months or years . |
| 3 | Taxes and public spending to be set to reach a ‘ savings target ’ for the nation over a period of years . |
| 4 | She had had to wean herself off the dope over a period of years , and still felt the occasional urge for a H-9 hit . |
| 5 | By s12 of the Solicitors Act , the Law Society is given discretion to grant or refuse an application for a practising certificate in the following cases : ( 1 ) a first application ; ( 2 ) an application by a solicitor who has never held an unconditional certificate since admission ; ( 3 ) where 12 months or more will have elapsed since a practising certificate was last held ; ( 4 ) after the disciplinary tribunal has ordered a penalty or costs against the applicant or delivered a reprimand ; ( 5 ) after failure by the applicant to offer sufficient explanation for his or her professional conduct after being called upon so to do ; ( 6 ) after failure to deliver an accountant 's report in due time ( and an additional fee will be payable if the discretion is not invoked to refuse the application ) ; ( 7 ) after the expiry of a period of suspension ; ( 8 ) after the name of the applicant who has been struck off is restored to the roll ; ( 9 ) while the applicant is an undischarged bankrupt ; ( 10 ) after the applicant 's discharge from bankruptcy or after the applicant has entered into a composition or deed of arrangement for the benefit of his creditors ; ( 11 ) while the applicant is a patient as defined by s94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or a person as to whom powers have been exercised under s104 of the Mental Health Act 1959 or s98 of the 1983 Act ; ( 12 ) where the applicant has received a sentence of imprisonment ; ( 13 ) where the applicant has failed to satisfy a money judgment against him or her which is not a judgment limited to costs and which is not a judgment in respect of which indemnity or relief from some other person is available . |
| 6 | In areas of endemic haemonchosis it has often been observed that after the advent of a period of heavy rain the faecal worm egg counts of sheep infected with H. contortus drop sharply to near zero levels due to the expulsion of the major part of the adult worm burden . |
| 7 | If an application for the discharge of a care order , or the substitution of a supervision order for a care order is unsuccessful no further application may be made without the leave of the court for a period of six months ( s91(15) ( a ) ( d ) ) . |
| 8 | If an application for discharge of a supervision order is unsuccessful no further application may be made without the leave of the court for a period of six months ( s91(15) ) . |
| 9 | It shows remarkable warming and cooling of the sea over a period of just 10 days . |
| 10 | That the quality of the reactions of a period of life in which the superego did not as yet exist should be the pattern upon which is modelled the manic state ( the basis of which is temporary withdrawal of the superego ) is exactly what we should expect . |
| 11 | The third pattern is the post-experience one in which students come to theoretical or systematic study of the field after a period of practice . |
| 12 | Struck at such moments as the end of a verse , these enhanced the impact of rituals performed to promote harmony and enhance the dignity of the state over a period of at least three millennia from the Shang to the Qing dynasties . |
| 13 | The sample , placed in a dialyser bag , is suspended in distilled or deionized water , circulation of which encourages osmotic exchange of the salts over a period of several days . |
| 14 | The use of the model for policy analysis generally presupposes that a forecast of the economy over a period of several years is available . |
| 15 | A recent report by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) said the iodine-131 may have killed 13 people through cancer of the thyroid over a period of decades . |
| 16 | For every site , however , the archaeologists ' main concerns are to recover the sequence of plans that result from the changing occupation and use of the site over a period of time ; the stratigraphic sequence of layers ; the relationship of any features such as walls , pits and ditches to one another ; evidence for the dating of these features and of the site as a whole ; evidence for the climate and local environment when the site was occupied ; and the relationship of the site to other sites , both in the locality and further afield . |
| 17 | It was intended to see if the total programme of instruction-orientation , introduction and advanced courses in information retrieval affected the pattern of use of the library over a period of five years . |
| 18 | First name Surname Form Author 's name Book title Type in data in the order given pressing RETURN after each item PRESS " ESCAPE " TO RETURN TO MENU Option 4 gives a status report and is useful in collecting statistics on the use of the library over a period of two years . |
| 19 | The statistics on use of the library over a period can prove useful in presenting reports to the school hierarchy and arguing for increases in resources . |
| 20 | 1973 when he became chairman of the corporation for a period of three years . |
| 21 | The court did , however , renew the validity of the writ for a period of four months , notwithstanding the expiry both of the writ and the limitation period , to allow alternative means of service to be used . |
| 22 | The rural development centre CEPROR ( Centro de Romocion Rural ) ran special courses for young women , Sister Asuncion , who was in charge of the programme over a period of two years ( 1975–7 ) , helped train approximately 2.000 young women in community work . |
| 23 | They are then reactivated and , still as L3 , are passed in the milk of the bitch for a period of about three weeks after whelping . |
| 24 | To avoid large outflows of funds on the redemption of a large government debt issue , the maturing stock is bought by the Issue Department ( see below ) of the Bank over a period of time to avoid shocks to the financial system . |
| 25 | Checklists are not appropriate for people who do not have inti-mate knowledge of a child over a period of some weeks . |
| 26 | While temporarily unloaded from any of the said vehicles in the course of a journey for a period of up to 72 hours ( not counting Sunday or any Public Holiday ) anywhere in England Scotland or Wales . |
| 27 | THE WEST Lancashire Light Railway , the passenger-carrying narrow gauge line at Hesketh Bank between Southport and Preston , moves into the twentieth century with the introduction of a telephone after a period of twenty-four years . |
| 28 | As a condition of this appointment you are required to accept that if the appointment is not renewed or extended at the end of the period referred to you will not be entitled to claim any rights to complain of unfair dismissal under the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 , as amended , which authorizes the exclusion by agreement of any such claim in the case of an appointment for a period of one year or more . |
| 29 | ( On the formation of the NAR administration in December 1986 Gordon had agreed to serve as a minister for a period of three years . ) |
| 30 | Then I learned that if I did not make these payments I would be registered as a debtor for a period of six years . |