Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a group wittingly shares an attitude over a relevant issue but does so only for a limited period of time before falling into disarray , it would be difficult to refer to the group as an elite in any meaningful sense since the outcomes would be insignificant . |
| 2 | The battle of the Catalaunian Plains was proof that the imperial policy could work , if only for a limited period of time . |
| 3 | Whether or not these jobs were available only for a short period of time , they were regarded by their holders as temporary . |
| 4 | But they do , they get paid a lot of money but only for a short period of time . |
| 5 | It seems that Gainsborough produced such works as favours for important clients , but only for a short period in his career , later preferring oil on paper for smaller portraits of this sort . |
| 6 | Only for a short period in the mid-1980s , when commodity prices and demand for semi-conductors slumped , did Malaysia risk hitting its borrowing ceiling . |
| 7 | Within organizations productivity slowed down , on this view , because Taylorism had reached its limits — there were no new areas left to rationalize ; workers had become more resistant , especially during the prolonged period of post-war full employment , and efficiency gains were being outstripped by increasing costs of surveillance and control associated with the rigid separation of mental and managerial labour . |
| 8 | Count Mandred , the acclaimed defeater of the Skaven , was elected Emperor and his respected generalship and charismatic personality held the Empire together during a vulnerable period of recovery . |
| 9 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 10 | All ten residents had been long-term patients in a large psychiatric hospital , were severely disabled and had been discharged only after a lengthy period of active rehabilitation . |
| 11 | Only after a considerable period of experience do infants give clear signs that they are aware of the extent of their own bodies and the division between themselves and the wider world . |
| 12 | The reference to ‘ Eventually ’ in the last sentence implies that it was only after a commendable period of restraint that horses were ordered in . |
| 13 | If the management 's lawyers are not successful in removing a provision of this kind , then its effect can be mitigated by amendment so that it will apply only after an agreed period of time , for example five years , or with the consent of an agreed percentage of the members ; the latter may be appropriate where the investment has been syndicated . |
| 14 | This would consist of day release throughout one academic year together with a four-week period of block release and should become a requirement before 1981 , if possible . |
| 15 | Heavy corporate borrowing in the 1980s ( encouraged by government deregulation ) together with a sustained period of high interest rates and , from 1990 , with a contracting economy , proved a fatal combination for many companies . |
| 16 | Events occurring during pregnancy were excluded , together with the related periods of observation . |
| 17 | It was the English who failed to do so within the agreed period of two months . |
| 18 | We might go on to say that not only in the medieval period with its plainsong , but also today , the Church owes more to the prayer and music of the religious orders than it will ever appreciate . |
| 19 | Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time . |
| 20 | The last US military personnel based in the Philippines were withdrawn on Nov. 24 , thereby ending a presence which had existed since 1898 ( broken only by a three-year period of Japanese occupation during the Pacific War ) . |
| 21 | total sponsorships of a vehicle ( normally for an initial period of 3 years ) |
| 22 | Erm the last group , obviously the poor peasants which is the real vanguard of the revolution he says erm he says they have fought militantly through the two periods of underground work and of open activity , they 're the most responsive to the Communist Party leadership . |
| 23 | The Fitzwilliam Quartet recorded their cycle originally in the mid-1970s , shortly after a concentrated period of study with the composer . |
| 24 | It is known that Dionysos was worshipped at Pylos shortly after the Minoan period on Crete and it is possible that his orgiastic cult was preceded by a Minoan proto-Dionysian cult . |
| 25 | If all the etch-resist is completely stripped away in a short period of time , then perhaps the whole board has been exposed at some stage to too much UV light . |
| 26 | Now the pattern of current variation repeats exactly over every three periods of the source ( picture ( g ) ) . |
| 27 | The absence of evidence of a distinctive layout of fields before that time has led to the suggestion that Romano-British fields continued to be used in the Saxon period and that open fields may have been something that developed gradually through the Anglo-Saxon period as a whole ( Taylor and Fowler 1978 ) . |
| 28 | Three , you could arrange payment of the deposit as requested , possibly for a certain period of time and possibly for a smaller amount than demanded , this would no doubt by in the process of the licence . |
| 29 | He had sought and received asylum in the Senegalese embassy in Conakry only a month after his return home from a long period of exile [ see p. 38181 ] . |
| 30 | But they trailed 58-53 early in the second period after Giants ' Kevin St Kitts and Jerry Johnson spearheaded a 14-0 spurt . |