Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] for a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It commits all signatory states to ( i ) use the best available techniques for controlling pollution , ( ii ) reduce discharges of toxic waste to harmless levels by the year 2000 , and ( iii ) refrain from all dumping of radioactive waste for a period of 15 years . |
| 2 | DW warrants that upon delivery by DW/LD the diskette on which the Program is distributed is free from defects in materials and workmanship under normal use for a period of ninety ( 90 ) days from the date the Program is delivered . |
| 3 | It becomes an inevitable part of normal living that we form significant relationships with particular individuals for a period of time and then , often through force of circumstance , move away from those same relationships . |
| 4 | Pro-democracy groups [ see pp. 37428-29 ] reacted with consternation to an announcement on Feb. 26 by the Amir of Kuwait , Shaikh Jabir al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah , placing the country under martial law for a period of three months . |
| 5 | Employees who are redeployed to posts outwith their recognised employment field will be given priority consideration for any subsequent vacancy which arises in that field for a period of one year following the date of redeployment . |
| 6 | It should also recognise that there is a need to protect such exercises from public scrutiny for a period so that teachers have time to acquire evaluative skills . |
| 7 | When the Shavante train boys to become warriors who can both take and give orders , they systematically constrain the youngsters in age-set seclusion for a period of five years during which time they are trained to endure suffering ( see below ) . |
| 8 | Under the Education Reform Act opted-out schools are prevented from charging fees for a period of five years . |
| 9 | The PhD degree involves the candidate in supervised research for a period usually of 36 months full-time , or 48 months part-time . |
| 10 | This last index has been a boon to many UK fund managers concerned over relative performance , since it has been weighed down by the Tokyo market , which has been in sustained fall for a period of nearly three years . |
| 11 | Section 1 , Para. 2 , of the Policy provides cover whilst the craft is in most of the countries in Western Europe for a period not exceeding 31 consecutive days during any one period of insurance . |
| 12 | The board of the faculty shall deem a student to have withdrawn from the University if the student has been absent without leave from prescribed instruction for a period of four weeks . |
| 13 | The group is run for six to eight females for a period of eight weeks and aims to improve their social skills and self-esteem . |
| 14 | Where a person enters into a covenant to pay sums to another person for a period which can not exceed six years those amounts shall be treated as the income of the person who is paying the same and not the income of any other person ( TA 1988 , s660(1) ) . |
| 15 | Fluid was said to persist until the ear was reported otoscopically dry or there was persistence of A , C1 , or C2 tympanometric peaks on consecutive visits for a period in excess of 12 months . |
| 16 | The financial commitment of Christian Aid is for up to ten scholarships for a period of three years . |
| 17 | The board is exposed to UV light for a period of up to 20 minutes or so . |
| 18 | Foreman 's opponent in 1974 , Muhammad Ali , is the other important articulator of protest , and his dominance over other heavyweights for a period of fourteen years was so complete that he was impossible to suppress , even though his enforced incapacitation for four years did seem to dull his sharpness in criticizing white racism . |
| 19 | The judge ordered on an action by the plaintiffs , Waltham Forest London Borough Council , that they should recover possession of 336 , Stocksfield Road , Walthamstow , London , E.17 , on the ground that the defendant did not qualify to succeed within section 87 of the Housing Act 1985 the tenant , Webster Thomas , the defendant 's brother who had died while a secure tenant of the premises as the defendant had not resided at those premises for a period of 12 months ending with his brother 's death . |
| 20 | I immediately placed all the money I had collected on deposit in the Bow Building Society at 102 Cheapside for a period of one year at a rate of four per cent . |
| 21 | ( If , for example , one observed a number of protons equal to 1 followed by thirty-one zeros for a period of one year , one would expect , according to the simplest GUT , to observe more than one proton decay . ) |