Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] period [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it is an early maturing variety well suited to the long ripening period of a northern wine region . |
| 3 | Far from seeing the ascent of Labour in the immediate postwar period as a spontaneous response to frustrated hopes and deteriorating social conditions , it was rather a resolution or convergence of deeper currents at a specific historical conjuncture . |
| 4 | A Scottish-born CA and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants he may be but , apart from a brief initial period in a practising firm and then Lothian Regional Council , before coming to Provincial three years ago he had fairly rapidly made a successful impact in senior general management in retail banking , with TSB in Scotland . |
| 5 | Before planting outside , they will require a short hardening-off period in a cold frame or cool greenhouse . |
| 6 | I did wish , and spent a happy preparatory period in a haze of vodka and tonic . |