Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] period during " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) . |
| 2 | After a brief period during which a registered trade union was a corporate body under the Act of 1971 , the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 restored the immunity , though liability was imposed ( where there was no trade dispute ) for certain torts causing personal injury or breaches of duty connected with the union 's property . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Leah bore him children , but Rachel was barren for a long period during which Jacob had children by her maidservant before she eventually gave birth to Joseph and then Benjamin . |
| 5 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 6 | Once the eggs have hatched the tiny fry are without parental care and become free swimming for a brief period during which time they must find their own host anemone . |
| 7 | However , this outlay can easily be offset by letting the apartment out for a brief period during the peak season . |
| 8 | He retired from medicine in 1930 , although for a brief period during World War II he acted as locum for a Cambridge doctor who had joined up . |
| 9 | Barthes has differentiated between a postwar period during which the cultural influence of the French writer/intellectual has gradually diminished , and an interwar period during which " great writers … such as Gide , Claudel , Valery , Malraux … were at the centre of intense activity , exerting enormous cultural influence " . " |
| 10 | A period of teacher training followed , after which Blamey returned to teach at the Regent Street Polytechnic where he remained , apart from a brief period during the war , until it combined with the Chelsea Polytechnic . |
| 11 | Apart from a brief period during the First World War , when the Royal Flying Corps had use of the area inside the circuit , Brooklands was used continuously from 1907 to the outbreak of the Second World War . |
| 12 | For a start , it allows spreading to be carried over a longer period during the winter months ( Table 1 ) . |
| 13 | It seems very doubtful whether the required amount of water ever falls in present conditions and many authorities have attributed such erosion to a wetter period during the Pleistocene . |