Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Onset of proarrhythmia after a period of stable , long-term drug treatment is probably due to an intervening event such as ischaemia , hypokalaemia , the addition of another drug , or change in drug dose . |
| 2 | This factor was the entry of English into a period of even more buoyant growth , both of student and staff numbers , from the late 1950s . |
| 3 | The monarch stood at the top of a pyramid of aristocracy in a period when most people still assumed society must be run by élites . |
| 4 | Yet the general position had improved enough for the government to proceed to its second level campaign — the creation of nation-wide cultural uniformity through mass education as the chief instrument of modernization in a period when technical means and financial resources were not as yet adequate for fast modernization through industrialization . |
| 5 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 6 | Both the statement and financial figures are expected to relate to a plan for development over a period of 3–4 years . |
| 7 | This amount may be calculated as a fixed percentage of profit for a period , or by adjusting a notional pool of a specified amount by the percentage change in profits compared with the preceding period . |
| 8 | This method — removing an aggressive nursery school child from play for a period of one minute — was compared by researchers with a scolding and orders not to hit and with a further method of distracting ( i.e. redirecting ) him to other play . |
| 9 | If you were with us at the last occasion of this sort , the last centenary lecture on Gerter , given by Professor Corby , you will remember on that occasion erm he provided a focus of illumination in a period of power cuts , economic gloom and all the rest of it . |
| 10 | Where committed facilities are in existence at the balance sheet date which permit the refinancing of debt for a period beyond its maturity , the earliest date at which the lender has the right to demand repayment should be taken to be the maturity date of the longest refinancing permitted by a facility in respect of which all the following conditions are met : |
| 11 | Because nothing can travel faster than light , an object that can vary its output of energy within a period of a few days can be at best a few light-days across . |
| 12 | If you mark your weight on a graph or chart this should provide a clear and rewarding sign of progress over a period of weeks and months . |
| 13 | The research concentrates on 40 Protestant and Catholic , skilled and semi-skilled , married men in two age groups ( 25-35 and 40-50 ) who will be ‘ followed ’ from the start of their spell of unemployment for a period of up to 17 months ( or until they regain paid work ) , interviews being conducted at approximately 5 month intervals . |
| 14 | Members still enjoy freedom from arrest for a period extending from 40 days before the commencement of a session to 40 days after it . |
| 15 | In essence there were two general scenarios leading to the award of a DFC : firstly , an instance/incident considered worthy of an immediate award ; and , secondly a non-immediate award in recognition of a period of distinguished service , sometimes highlighting one or two instances . |
| 16 | Truman had to learn through experience in office without a period of gradually accumulating knowledge in a subordinate position . |
| 17 | The appellants considered the mortgage could not be redeemed without their consent unless in accordance with the covenant for repayment over a period of 21 years . |
| 18 | There are also some local variations in the measurements and because of this reliable detection of growth over a period of half a day seems unlikely . |
| 19 | Only three subjects had a feeling of wind before a period of intermittent need for defecation . |
| 20 | It charts the development of still life , genre and landscape painting , the importance of historiae , the changing fashions in portraiture , and the role of art in a period of political and economic flux . |
| 21 | In the circumstances in which they were used they powerfully augmented other forces of change by providing data on the state of society at a period when so little was known . |
| 22 | Criticisms of society in the previous century had cleared the path for a vision of childhood as a period of blessed innocence , before social evils could distort the child 's perception of the world . |
| 23 | Different in theory , but similar in effect , are the provisions of the Prescription Act 1832 , under which rights to easements and profits à prendre may be established by reason of enjoyment for a period of not less than twenty years in the one case , and not less than thirty in the other . |
| 24 | For the purpose of such measurements a layer of distinctive sand is put down on the marsh and the amount of accretion after a period of years measured by cutting down to the patch of sand with a tool sharp enough not to disturb the section . |
| 25 | ‘ This is to certify that Color Serjeant William Nicholl served in the 8th ( or The King 's ) Regiment of Foot for a period of Twenty One Years , during which time he has invariably conducted himself as an honest , trustworthy , sober man — Given under my hand at Plymouth , This 4th day of August 1825 , J. Duffy Lf Col Commg 8th or King 's Reg . ’ |
| 26 | Like Brooke-Rose , Spark began writing fiction as a form of therapy after a period of psychological strain ( Stanford 1963:62 ) . |
| 27 | One solution to the difficulty of what the Cockcroft Report refers to as " recording positive achievement " which attempts to avoid laying too much stress on what pupils have not achieved is to record the growth in attainment over a period of time . |
| 28 | Apart from information on trade and technology , objects like these gives an idea of the taste in art of a period . |
| 29 | A valuable feature of our case is that it provides a detailed profile of the natural history of EATCL over a period of 12 months from initial presentation to the introduction of chemotherapy . |
| 30 | The group says that the survival of evidence over a period of years defies expectations and improves the prospects for enforcement of the recently signed international Chemical Weapons Convention ( see Nature 361 , 105 ; 1993 ) . |