Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Subsequent radar observations , plus Earth-based telescope observations guided by the 60-day period , ultimately established beyond doubt that the axial sidereal period of Mercury is 58.64 mean solar days .
2 It is now widely realised that a comprehensive education for a mentally handicapped child should continue over a longer time than the normal educational period of 5–16 years .
3 If the sidereal axial period of Venus were -43.16 days then , except for the slight effect of the eccentricity of the orbits of Venus and the Earth , Venus would present the same face to the Earth at each inferior conjunction .
4 Imagine a planet with a small axial inclination which has a retrograde sidereal orbital period of 100 days , and a sidereal axial period of -100 days .
5 The Gamay was rightly considered inferior for the production of Champagne when AOC laws were introduced in 1927 and its cultivation was restricted , but a generous transitory period of 18 years was allowed for growers heavily dependent on the vine , because the authorities recognised the financial burden of replanting with the authorised varieties .
6 After the great innovative period of bacteriology had achieved its ends , there remained a number of diseases , evidently infectious , for which no causative organisms could be found .
7 It is most probably that the inhabitants had heard of this religion which had spread over Europe and had been known as early as the late Roman period in Britain .
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