Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 31 | Also during the first 200 years of the Norman period the outlands of the parish were settled by families with Norman names and some of these names live on with us today . |
| 32 | The Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales lost 8,195 hectares of moorland ( to agriculture and forestry ) between 1885 and 1975 , and the northern half of the Snowdonia National Park lost 5,201 hectares over a similar period , though the majority of it was to forestry . |
| 33 | But it was in New Orleans , when the alcoholic fog lifted for a while , that he wrote eleven hundred pages in a four-month period ending in early 1987 . |
| 34 | A 35-year-old man pleaded guilty to the brutal rape of six women and the indecent assault of another four women in a sixteen-month period . |
| 35 | ‘ The job required 51,000 man-hours over a 28-week period , ’ he said . |