Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] a period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 10 ) In any case where under the provisions of this Article the Directors may require a Transfer Notice to be given in respect of any Shares , if a Transfer Notice is not duly given within a period of two weeks of demand being made , a Transfer Notice shall be deemed to have been given in respect of such Shares at the expiration of the said period . |
| 2 | ( 10 ) In any case where under the provisions of this Article the Directors may require a Transfer Notice to be given in respect of any Shares , if a Transfer Notice is not duly given within a period of two weeks of demand being made , a Transfer Notice shall be deemed to have been given in respect of such Shares at the expiration of the said period . |
| 3 | ( i ) where the specified event happens in respect of a member , any share registered in his name may , notwithstanding paragraph ( 1 ) of this Rule , remain so registered for a period of not longer than six months from the date of the specified event ; provided that no voting rights shall be exercised in respect of any such share while it remains so registered ; and |
| 4 | ( i ) where the specified event happens in respect of a member , any share registered in his name may , notwithstanding paragraph ( 1 ) of this Rule , remain so registered for a period of not longer than six months from the date of the specified event ; provided that no voting rights shall be exercised in respect of any such share while it remains so registered ; and |
| 5 | POST-PARTUM ABSTINENCE — Normal sexual relations will obviously not be resumed immediately after termination of a pregnancy , which is naturally followed by a period of abstinence . |
| 6 | In a churchyard at Bilston in Staffordshire stands a memorial to a mother and her two infant children , who all died within a period of three weeks in the winter of 1847 ; they are described as ‘ all victims to the neglect of sanitary regulations specially referred to in a recent lecture on Health in this town . ’ |
| 7 | Ironically , very often it is conservation policies , successfully applied over a period of time , that have made the centre a more attractive investment to owners and increased the value of properties . |
| 8 | Bedwetting baselines are best set over a period of at least 2 weeks because of the often intermittent nature of the problem . |
| 9 | As a result of two previous visits to London , Boulestin had already gone through a period of serious anglomania which extended even to our food , and an attempt to make his father 's household in Poitiers appreciate the beauty of mint sauce with mutton , the fascination of Sir Kenelm Digby 's Stuart recipes for hydromel and mead , and the anglo-oriental romance of curry as served at Romano 's . |
| 10 | Article 8 calls for the Common Market to be progressively established over a period of 12 years . |
| 11 | Particularly when he has just returned from a period of injury . |
| 12 | In practice , low potencies are usually prescribed over a period of time , whereas high potencies are classically administered as the single dose . |
| 13 | A licence is usually granted for a period of five years . |
| 14 | Rented property is usually taken for a period of a year with an option to renew for the second and third years of the contract ; even six-month lets are rare . |
| 15 | Once a system has been pushed too far out of equilibrium , it takes just a little further input for a period of turmoil to ensue , followed by a new equilibrium . |
| 16 | Interaction usually begins with a period of eye contact which appears to signal from me to you ( and vice versa ) that we are ready to relate . |
| 17 | Not to mention his composition Four Minutes 33 Seconds , technically described as a period of ‘ apparent silence ’ . |
| 18 | In 1867 , the young scholar 's career was temporarily interrupted by a period of military service which resulted in a serious chest injury . |
| 19 | We had chosen our visit to coincide with the full moon , but it also coincided with a period of maximum solar flare activity , and on every clear night the Lights treated us to a spectacular show in green and red . |
| 20 | In that experiment 19 enlisted men were repeatedly tested over a period of six weeks . |
| 21 | Frequent use of search was often marked by a period of experimentation with a variety of firms in the first instance , followed by a settling down to regular work with a smaller number of firms with whom the client had achieved a modus vivendi . |
| 22 | There was chronic overcapacity on domestic US passenger air routes , and rising fuel prices now coincided with a period of heavily reduced passenger bookings , connected with the weakness of the dollar and with fears arising from the Gulf crisis . |
| 23 | To this end a comprehensive review of the training and examination syllabus has been undertaken and we are now embarking on a period of consultation with a view to implementing a more up-to-date system in two years ' time . |
| 24 | His reign is often described as a period of revival of interest in Classical themes and modes of expression , but the profound change in the social composition of the court did not outlast the emperor . |
| 25 | In short , if life was always harder in the inner cities than elsewhere , and if conditions may temporarily have been alleviated by the impact of the welfare state and rising incomes , the last decade has been widely represented as a period of deterioration . |
| 26 | Sch 2 provides that an employee who has been continuously employed for a period of not less than two years shall have , as at present , the right to postpone her return to work for up to 29 weeks — with the possibility of an extension of four weeks if there is incapacity and medical evidence . |
| 27 | In particular , the number of stopping places available to them has been drastically reduced over a period of three or four decades during which the travelling population has been on the increase , although I have not been able to discover the measure of it . |
| 28 | His great virtue was that he did not rely on a single visit , but frequently returned after a period of years and was able to comment on progress — or lack of it — and the way in which new legislation was being implemented . |
| 29 | Where , well where er disruptive selection i i i is very huge differences between men , male and female and this was then accentuated over a period of time |
| 30 | Some individuals , even when living in normal society , do not remain in synchrony with the 24-hour day and instead free-run with a period of about 25 hours . |