Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the period 1 May , 1992 to 31 January , 1993 , pre-tax profits dropped from £881,000 for the previous comparable period to £629,000 . |
| 2 | House sales over the six months went up from 357 units for the previous comparable period to 409 . |
| 3 | The Corporation may cancel this Policy by sending seven days notice by registered letter to the Policyholder at his last known address and in such event will return to the Policyholder the premium less the pro rata portion thereof for the period the Policy has been in force or the Policy may be cancelled at any time by the Policyholder on seven days notice and ( provided no claim has arisen during the then current period of insurance ( subject to the relative International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) being returned to the Corporation the Policyholder shall be entitled to a return of the premium less premium at the Corporations short period rates for the time the Policy has been in force calculated from the date upon which such Card is received by the Corporation . |
| 4 | The book can be seen as an attempt by Scott to assert himself as leading expert on Gothic Revival secular buildings , perhaps having felt that during the great church-building period of the 1840s and 1850s his work was overshadowed by that of other architects , particularly Pugin and Street . |
| 5 | The first undoubted works of art documented by archaeology , the engravings and paintings on the walls and ceilings of caves and rock-shelters together with the figurines and engraved pieces from deposits resting on their floors , were created by members of our own species Homo sapiens sapiens during the Late Glacial period from around thirty thousand years ago . |
| 6 | During the short five-year period of the Second World War , a layer of air power was added to that foundation , but since the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945 , and Britain armed herself with nuclear weapons in the 1950s , the Three Pillars have stood just as securely upon the strategic nuclear deterrent . |
| 7 | After the usual lengthy period of gestation , the government produced the " Temporary Rules " of 1865 ( which remained in place until 1905 ) . |
| 8 | This usually requires the tenant to give sixty or ninety days ' notice , sometimes after an agreed minimum period of four to six months . |
| 9 | The Maya priests discovered , however , that 584 days is a slight overestimate of the average synodic period of Venus . |
| 10 | On one side is a reiteration of the Whiggish , teleological view of history which dominated the nineteenth century , demonstrating present western culture as the result of a continuous enlightenment and development of civilisation from the beginnings of the early modern period until the present . |
| 11 | Land cultivation in the Auvergne uplands is extremely limited because of the long cold period in winter when sward re-establishment would be difficult , a dry summer climate , and because of thin soils which are anyway generally quite fertile . |
| 12 | Like Winckelmann and Hölderlin , many later Hellenists felt those favourite qualities to be best represented in the literature of the mature classical period from Sophocles to Plato ( roughly 450 to 350 ) , which was almost exempt from criticism . |
| 13 | Arrangements for the financing of the bridge beyond the end of the extended tolling period in 1996 are under consideration . |
| 14 | Andersson has spent only one week of a planned three-week period on trial at St James ' Park . |
| 15 | Note that the sheet and the fields in the upper inset of Figure 9.2 correspond to one-half of a sidereal axial period of Jupiter different from the situation in the main body of the Figure . |
| 16 | Following the elapse of a mandatory three-month period after notification of the cancellation , Czechoslovakia would henceforth be able to fix its own exchange rates . |
| 17 | On July 20 a group of French inspectors arrived in Ukraine to monitor implementation of the treaty , marking the start of an intensive 120-day period of mutual " baseline inspections " to establish current holdings in each country . |
| 18 | Its surface bears some evidence for an early period of crater erasure , and for a long subsequent period of slight internal contraction , presumably the result of cooling . |
| 19 | In order to ensure a more appropriate distribution across the states of production , prices and a rational pattern of modernisation , the treaty schedule called for a five-year transitional period of two distinct stages . |
| 20 | Havel was re-elected by the Federal Assembly for a transitional two-year period on July 5 . |
| 21 | Harsh measures — putting an entire community under an absolute curfew for a continuous lengthy period of time , demolishing homes , uprooting olive or citrus trees , physical intimidation and terror tactics employed by raiding army units , shooting , killing , cutting off water or electricity supplies and telephone links to villages or towns , mass arrests , intimidatory interrogation techniques — can either create a temporary lull or activate an eruption . |
| 22 | As a result , No. 3440 will enter traffic on Saturday July 18 for a 10-day intensive period of running until Monday July 27 inclusive and the promise of some spectacular runs by the former GWR flier . |
| 23 | For a keplerian orbital period of 500s , however , if the X-ray emission comes from outside 3 Schwarzschild radii , the black-hole mass can be no larger than 10 6 solar masses ( ) . |
| 24 | In a speech later on the same day , Rabin referred to the " autonomy " to be ceded during a five-year transitional period to the Palestinians of the occupied territories , and emphasized that by " autonomy … |
| 25 | During a fleeting unrestricted period in 1985 she was named co-president of the United Democratic Front , the mainstream anti-apartheid organisation inside South Africa . |
| 26 | A third kind of explanation for the relationship between income and age is that it is the result of a cohort effect : that is , older elderly people are poorer because they were born and spent their working lives during a different historical period from the ‘ young ’ elderly . |
| 27 | Nicephore Soglo , a former World Bank administrator , was elected by the delegates as interim Prime Minister , with a brief to steer the country through an 11-month transitional period to elections in 1991 . |
| 28 | It was subsequently announced that the government had granted unconditional indemnity to 40 people , including the ANC 's entire NEC , for an initial three-month period from May 19 . |
| 29 | Some historians have been arguing recently that payments of census and hostilicium specified in some polyptychs are forms of tax collection and demonstrate the continuity of taxation , and of the administrative structures to exact it , from the late Roman period to the Carolingians . |
| 30 | This benefit allows you to deduct the years when you were required to give up work from the normal qualifying period for a basic pension and so , in effect , shorten the number of years when you would otherwise have been required to make contributions . |