Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting . |
| 2 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 3 | Ill health dogged his period at St Mary 's , and he returned for a further period of treatment while he was the curate , and in September 1962 he came to Coniston as the Parish priest and significantly , no further setbacks were experienced to his health while he was living in proximity to Coniston Old Man and during the period he was Parish Priest . |
| 4 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
| 5 | Professor Heiz called for a six-month period of study to be devoted to the Corbie site before work proceeds on the school . |
| 6 | Ambulatory monitoring during cardiac arrest has shown that the mechanism is usually VF preceded by a variable period of organised ventricular tachycardia ( VT ) . |
| 7 | The Pier Head incident proved to be the turning point which led to a new period of industrial peace within the giant Vehicle Division , unfortunately too late to avoid the massive investment switch to the Continent which was already under way with the newly approved corporate plan . |
| 8 | In Britain it was too good to last , but the slogan led to a disastrous period of false optimism . |
| 9 | All this is important because it meant that by the end of the 1930s British town planning was in a stronger position than would have been thought likely , to respond to the national emergency of physical destruction , which led to an unprecedented period of planned rebuilding . |
| 10 | I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted . |
| 11 | Chairman Alan Potts explained : ‘ The Club went through a bad period in the eighties but happily we resolved the problems . ’ |
| 12 | The period 1860–90 was crucial for Germany : as the German state emerged and the German self-image was formed , Prussia-Germany went through a chaotic period of social and economic transformation : a boom in canal and railway building , in the steel industry , in banking , engineering , scientific research and in developing industrial techniques had been accompanied by a war with France ; this was followed by a slump , financial collapse and a steady move to the right in political thinking . |
| 13 | He went through a brief period of chatting to the customers down at the bank about how he had seen someone come back from the dead . |
| 14 | When Margaret Baxter died after a short period of illness on the 14th. of June 1681 , Richard felt her loss very deeply . |
| 15 | Of the remaining 12 patients one died of acute renal failure during the initial investigation and treatment and the remaining 11 patients died at a median period of four months ( range one to 18 months ) because of progressive cahexia . |
| 16 | The material to be dyed is first thoroughly moistened and then placed in a solution of the mordant , simmered for a given period of time , about an hour , and then put , still wet , into the dyeing solution . |
| 17 | This occured after a sustained period of Leeds pressure which resulted in a whole string of corners , the goal came from Crewe 's inability to clear the ball and after several rebounds and with players flailing around the ball broke to Deane who scored from about six yards out . |
| 18 | If an antidepressant is indicated , it should be used in a full therapeutic dose and continued for an appropriate period of time . |
| 19 | So , a story set in contemporary Britain is likely to be easier ( for British pupils ) than one set in a different period of history or in a different culture or environment . |