Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] an [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shire enables a borrower to fix the maximum interest rate payable over an agreed period , and also gives the borrower the benefit of falls in the interest rate below a set level . |
| 2 | These do not exist in the hops and must be converted from precursor a acids which are present by an extended period of boiling . |
| 3 | Last year , Crisis catered for 1,800 people with some 700 sleeping overnight during an eight-day period . |
| 4 | ‘ In view of this the prisoner was advised that he would now be eligible for an extended period of 24 hours Compassionate Home Leave to attend the funeral , whenever it was arranged , ’ it said . |
| 5 | For owner-occupiers , on the other hand , the need to save for a deposit and other expenses , together with the relatively large mortgage payments in the early years means that two incomes are necessary for an extended period and therefore childbearing will be delayed . |
| 6 | Much research into early Anglo-Saxon England is accompanied by a high degree of innocence , with time-honoured methods being applied despite their failure to deepen understanding of man 's past ; techniques applied to other periods tend to be excluded as though they are not relevant to an historic period . |