Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] period of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Maya priests discovered , however , that 584 days is a slight overestimate of the average synodic period of Venus . |
| 2 | One may deal briefly with Molla Arab 's supposed first period of office as Mufti , simply saying that there appears to be no more evidence for it than for the rest of Katib Celebi 's construction of the facts concerning the history of the office in the early years , which is not , however , to say that the statement ( or the construction , for that matter ) may be dismissed entirely ( cf. below , n. 166 , for example ) . |
| 3 | After the great innovative period of bacteriology had achieved its ends , there remained a number of diseases , evidently infectious , for which no causative organisms could be found . |
| 4 | The Corporation may cancel this Policy by sending seven days notice by registered letter to the Policyholder at his last known address and in such event will return to the Policyholder the premium less the pro rata portion thereof for the period the Policy has been in force or the Policy may be cancelled at any time by the Policyholder on seven days notice and ( provided no claim has arisen during the then current period of insurance ( subject to the relative International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) being returned to the Corporation the Policyholder shall be entitled to a return of the premium less premium at the Corporations short period rates for the time the Policy has been in force calculated from the date upon which such Card is received by the Corporation . |
| 5 | The four year hiatus has been a good old-fashioned period of reappraisal ; he 's learnt to become a good father , he says , while the composing has flourished . |
| 6 | All of these problems slowed negotiations to such an extent that the federal government was forced to double its initial one-year period of support . |
| 7 | England , on the other hand , had a comparatively short Romanesque period of development following an extensive Saxon one but a very long and a unique building period in Gothic architecture emerging into a tardy Renaissance , nearly the last in Europe except for that of the Iberian peninsula . |
| 8 | For Moby it was especially important because , as with most pups , he had correctly been kept away from parks and streets for health reasons during that critical early period of socialisation until his vaccination course had taken effect . |
| 9 | If the sidereal axial period of Venus were -43.16 days then , except for the slight effect of the eccentricity of the orbits of Venus and the Earth , Venus would present the same face to the Earth at each inferior conjunction . |
| 10 | This is the orbit in which the less massive body m would have a sidereal orbital period equal to the sidereal axial period of M , as illustrated in Figure 6.2 ( c ) and ( d ) . |
| 11 | Note that the sheet and the fields in the upper inset of Figure 9.2 correspond to one-half of a sidereal axial period of Jupiter different from the situation in the main body of the Figure . |
| 12 | Subsequent radar observations , plus Earth-based telescope observations guided by the 60-day period , ultimately established beyond doubt that the axial sidereal period of Mercury is 58.64 mean solar days . |
| 13 | The minimum prepatent period of P. equorum is 10 weeks . |
| 14 | Harsh measures — putting an entire community under an absolute curfew for a continuous lengthy period of time , demolishing homes , uprooting olive or citrus trees , physical intimidation and terror tactics employed by raiding army units , shooting , killing , cutting off water or electricity supplies and telephone links to villages or towns , mass arrests , intimidatory interrogation techniques — can either create a temporary lull or activate an eruption . |
| 15 | After the usual lengthy period of gestation , the government produced the " Temporary Rules " of 1865 ( which remained in place until 1905 ) . |