Example sentences of "[subord] a [adj] period [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a short period of unemployment may be unwelcome and will certainly cause hardship , it is not necessarily disastrous . |
| 2 | Unlike in certain other European countries , British labour law sets no maximum duration to a temporary employment relationship , whereby all persons employed for longer than a certain period of time automatically have permanent status . |
| 3 | If a longer period of time is allowed ( say , 14 days ) the rate of discount will be lower ( say , 2.5% ) . |
| 4 | It is significant that a popular monarch , making war at the very start of his reign , after a long period of peace , could only raise such inadequate sums . |
| 5 | After a brief period of independence , Soviet rule was established in 1919 and the larger part of historic Belorussia joined the USSR in 1922 . |
| 6 | Industrial growth , too , suffered from depression , but when a new period of inflation began in the 1890s , it was soon clear that the European economy as a whole was expanding at a rate unsurpassed except in the United States — . |