Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [prep] [art] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we found that over a period of , oh about a couple of months , the same people almost used to come round . |
| 2 | Given the date , it was then a question of working backwards and consulting an old diary ; and I found that during the period in question I was in India for Panorama . |
| 3 | The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving . |
| 4 | In an article published in the early 1970s , Nicholas Tyacke argued that during the period from 1560 to 1625 there was a common predestinarian Calvinist heritage within the English church , shared by both prelates and Presbyterians alike , against which Laud and his supporters firmly set their faces in the 1630s . |
| 5 | Finally , in The Curriculum from 5 to 16 ( 1985 ) the Inspectorate insisted that throughout the period of compulsory schooling all pupils should maintain contact with nine areas of learning — the 1977 list , except that ‘ technological ’ learning is added and ‘ the social and political ’ is replaced by ‘ human and social ’ . |
| 6 | Claiming that Tyacke has paid too much attention to the academic debates of the university teachers and too little to the realities of parochial life , he asserted that throughout the period from 1529 to 1640 the English church was in essence a monarchical church whose leaders were primarily concerned to maintain stability by restricting controversy . |
| 7 | A great deal has been written and said as to the period of sexual " latency " which often occurs , at least on the surface of the child 's life , during this period . |