Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will all end up in those grim audio-visual departments where it will eventually be auctioned off for peanuts during a cost-saving period . |
| 2 | Prehistorians have rationalised this recently in the absence of documentary evidence by looking for different ‘ activity areas ’ within settlements and such concepts as food processing , craft areas , food storage areas , etc. could usefully be developed for sites in the historical period . |
| 3 | We know from literature that wood was used for statues in the archaic period , and very early wooden statuettes ( some Daedalic ) have been found on Samos . |
| 4 | Most of the cathedrals and churches have later alterations and additions but , in many cases , Romanesque work is present in quantity ; perhaps due to the depredations of Henry VIII , English abbeys and priories , instead of being given Baroque face-lifts , have survived , more or less , as ruins from the Medieval period ( PLATE 50 ) . |
| 5 | Under Resolution 44/312 of Nov. 20 , the Assembly elected former Norwegian Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for a four-year period from Jan. 1 , 1990 . |
| 6 | Second , a number of states in the Hellenistic period reduced the weight of their coinage . |
| 7 | Similarly , we can look at the iconography of coins over a shorter period . |
| 8 | Objectives ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) could consist of checks after a preliminary period of revision or practice carried out by the student on her own . |
| 9 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
| 10 | Call rate ( number of calls in a given period ) |
| 11 | Within marriage , in Gorer 's group , the most frequent rate of intercourse — the number of times within a given period in which intercourse generally took place — was once or twice a week , in about a third of the marriages concerned . |
| 12 | Firms with a sustained high level of exports over a longer period may provide further figures for consideration as a consistent exporter . |
| 13 | In 1923 the USA and Britain reached an agreement for repayment of debts over a 62-year period at 3.3% interest . |
| 14 | Our study design explains how we could detect a significant difference in urinary albumin excretion between two treatments in a small number of subjects for a short period of time : monthly measurements over 12 months increased the precision and consequently the power of our trial . |
| 15 | Movements of peoples in the historical period originated in the southerly latitudes of Inner Asia . |
| 16 | The examination of all the images produced during a particular period or of a selection of images over a longer period will often provide a good idea of how the relevant state or regime wished to represent itself . |
| 17 | Librarians point out that for their part they receive fewer volumes for their money , since the prices of books over the same period have risen distinctly faster than retail prices as a whole . |
| 18 | The giant ground sloths and armadillos of the past were clearly South American in character , showing that this continent had been populated by unique families of animals over a vast period of time . |
| 19 | There is an average number of accesses during a specified period of about sixty-five . |
| 20 | Under anaesthesia , neuromuscular control is lost and poor positioning of limbs in the peri-operative period can lead to a temporary loss of function if nerves have been pinched . |
| 21 | It will be difficult or impossible to establish a course of dealing on the basis of a small number of transactions over a long period . |
| 22 | Sales representative organized the promotion and personally demonstrated the production of chapattis to thousands of visitors over a five-day period . |
| 23 | The Carolinum is a muddle of buildings from the Gothic period onwards . |
| 24 | The Beveridge Report advocated the payment of old-age pensions on an actuarial basis , which would have meant the building up of contributions over a twenty-year period . |
| 25 | True , workers ' protest moved in close correlation with the business cycle , rising as demand for labour rose , falling with mass unemployment ; and the rapid turnover of workers in the pre-war period ensured considerable ebb and flow in the movement . |
| 26 | Consider in this light the succession of governments in the post-war period up to 1979 . |
| 27 | Accrued interest is based on the actual number of days in a six-month period and ( FRNs being mainly US or euromarket securities ) a 360-day year . |
| 28 | On closer inspection it became clear there were two sets of figures for the same period of time for the Grenfell Leather Trading Company . |
| 29 | He sees the Bible as containing a section of classic case studies of the ways God deals with humankind in a variety of situations across a considerable period of time . |
| 30 | Pews were also modified in a number of ways in the post-Reformation period . |