Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] period [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move was described by the Independent of April 20 as marking " a renewal of close co-operation between France and [ West ] Germany after a period of uncertainty generated by the speed of German unification " . |
| 2 | I was seized one day with the desire to go to the United States for a period of study . |
| 3 | Itzhak Shamir , the Prime Minister and Likud leader , announced at the end of a Cabinet meeting on Dec. 31 that he was dismissing Weizmann from the Cabinet , claiming that Weizmann had maintained contacts with the PLO over a period of time . |
| 4 | Working as a medical coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières I had the privilege to work in Albania during the period of transition since communism has been discarded . |
| 5 | At the height of Celtic 's success , the club 's disciplinarian manager Willie Maley took his team to a luxury hotel in Dunbar for a period of training and relaxation . |
| 6 | There is a considerable increase in retinoblastoma in children whose mothers have lived in Seascale during the period of operation of the Sellafield nuclear plant . |
| 7 | We could not identify all such workers as complete records have not survived and instead used the closest approximations possible — namely , records incorporating home address of all those ( more than 17000 ) attending the medical centre at the Sullom Voe oil terminal in Shetland during its construction phase ( believed to represent a high proportion of all but short stay workers ) ; 3500 construction workers at the Flotta oil terminal in Orkney ( incomplete data ) ; and more than 10000 offshore workers , being all those who obtained an offshore survival certificate ( required for such work ) in Scotland in the period from June 1976 ( the earliest date for which records have not been destroyed ) to 1980 . |
| 8 | The stardom sort of crept up on Nicholson over a period of weeks . |
| 9 | ( 5 ) , Sched. 2 , Part I. For the period of currency of a seamen 's canteen licence , see s.42 . |
| 10 | The status of the expected Messiah was augmented by the circumstances which obtained in Palestine at the period of Jesus 's birth . |
| 11 | The Case did not appear to play an important part in the process of decision making in the House of Lords during the period under review ( 1957 to 1973 ) in Alan Paterson 's book The Law Lords , which indicates that both counsel and the Law Lords in practice diminished the effect of the written Case in the arguing of the appeal ( Paterson , 1982 ) . |
| 12 | The defensive characteristics of the distributors are illustrated in the healthy performance of W H Smith and Menzies during a period of recession . |
| 13 | In this way many kept an account going at Gieves over a period of years for a modest monthly sum of two or three pounds . |
| 14 | We are an investing party , er we want to invest in Britain 's future , in the skills of its people , er so that our education and training , instead of being neglected as almost the worst in Europe during the period of Mr Baker 's government , becomes one of the best in Europe . |
| 15 | November 1989 Australia unveils a peace plan involving UN administration of Cambodia during a period of transition to free elections [ see pp. 37186-87 ] . |
| 16 | The most fundamental barrier to the penetration of Marxism into Latin America throughout the period under discussion has been the Catholic Church . |
| 17 | ‘ Travelling on the train to and from Folkestone and London over a period of months I knitted a bright pink jumper . |
| 18 | Wolfgang 's letters to Leopold during the period of composition and rehearsal are full of the problems he encountered : Varesco 's libretto was far too long and needed severe pruning ; many arias had to be adapted or rewritten to accommodate the foibles of individual singers , and , to make matters worse , Wolfgang himself was suffering from a heavy cold . |
| 19 | Editor , — We recently highlighted an increase in unsafe sexual behaviour and transmission of HIV among homosexual men in England and Wales after a period of decline . |