Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He also said that if Poland would agree to an extra-territorial railway line to run across the Corridor , linking Stettin , Danzig and Königsberg , Germany would agree to guarantee Polish borders for a period of 25 years . |
| 32 | Table 8.2 Costa Rica : educational indicators through the period of the economic crisis , 1975–88 |
| 33 | The Commercial Property account produced an unchanged deficit at the half year despite exceptional losses during the period of $20m . |
| 34 | Just as the phonetician may wish to make a more detailed , more specific description of the [ b ] under consideration , for example mentioning delayed onset of voicing and some protrusion of the lips during the period of closure , so may the ethnographer wish to specify some of the contextual features in great detail . |
| 35 | General statutory and business warranties for a period of 2-3 years . |
| 36 | The main characteristics of a period of standstill are : |
| 37 | The two Home Secretaries of the period of the bombings and trials , Mr Jenkins and Mr Merlyn Rees , are involved . |
| 38 | By using a longitudinal approach sensitive to the variation of individual experience , the project aims to collect and interpret information about crucial aspects of the period of residence . |
| 39 | Unlike the central character struggling in the movement of history in its unfolding , the communist narrator , distanced from the events themselves , coolly and relentlessly exposes the myths and illusions of the period with the hindsight of history . |
| 40 | Only last week , the last time I sat in court er there was an instance of one individual who had had twelve cautions in a period of eight months er he was still a youth so his name obviously can not be divulged , erm and it 's not only the cautions , I wonder how many warnings he 'd received as well . |
| 41 | Where an application is made more than 24 months after starting Approved Practical Experience , they are also required to confirm that they have satisfied these guidelines in the period to date . |
| 42 | It must be stated , however , that the rebuilding of reserves in a period of financial stringency , when the unit of resource is reducing and greater efficiencies are constantly being required of universities , is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve . |
| 43 | Industrial disputes became more serious : there were more working days lost through such disputes in the period from 1970 to 1978 than there were in the whole of the period from 1946 to 1969 . |
| 44 | The particular contribution of the teaching of French to pupils ' perceptions will be explored through observation by a researcher based in the two schools over a period of at least six months . |
| 45 | The probes were connected to a portable recorder ( Digitrapper — Synectics Medical , Sweden ) capable of holding data from two channels over a period of 24 hours . |
| 46 | Davies v. Sumner is the leading authority on the meaning of the expression ‘ in the course of a business ’ and has been followed in a case under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , R. & B. Customs Brokers v. United Dominion Trust , where it was held that a business 's buying of two or three cars over a period of five years was an insufficient degree of regularity for the latest such purchase to be regarded as made in the course of the business ( see paragraph 10–18 above . ) |
| 47 | The practical effect of this wording is that for a claim to be covered the casualty must be reasonably attributable to an identifiable accident the source of which is external to the craft — thus the craft filling with water on its moorings over a period of weeks and then foundering would not be covered . |
| 48 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 49 | But then , there can be no difference between producing x units over a period at one site and unc units for half the period at that site followed by unc at another site for the rest of the period . |
| 50 | He said it would change and tone a man in three five-minute sessions over a period of a week . |
| 51 | For example , it is clear from work with an English- and Punjabi-speaking family in Newcastle upon Tyne , where a young white woman carried out modified participant observation sessions over a period of several months , that no male , regardless of age or ethnicity , would be allowed into the house ( Scothern 1985 ) . |
| 52 | There is no obligation to buy any books over a period of time . |
| 53 | The Manor was an important landmark during the annual and ancient custom called the ‘ perambulation of Purton ’ , during Rogation Tide in May , when a large procession , headed by the clergyman , would beat the bounds over a period of two days . |
| 54 | The Medical Correspondent of the UK Sunday Times reported in May 1990 that the anti-oestrogen drug , tamoxifen , used for several years to treat women actually suffering from breast-cancer , is now to be tested on 30,000 human subjects over a period of five years to assess its potential as a preventative of the disease in healthy women . |
| 55 | The results of these labours over a period of fifty years were many papers and five influential books , the last two of which were completed by his son . |
| 56 | The Survey was based on an examination of the book application forms ( commonly referred to as ‘ call-slips ’ ) submitted by readers over a period of a fortnight . |
| 57 | According to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) , more than 280,000 people had left their homes over the period of the fighting . |
| 58 | At that time there were hardly any scholarly accounts of the period in question . |
| 59 | That the quality of the reactions of a period of life in which the superego did not as yet exist should be the pattern upon which is modelled the manic state ( the basis of which is temporary withdrawal of the superego ) is exactly what we should expect . |
| 60 | It looked no doubt much like other fortified noble houses of the period in Rome , although it was perhaps more lavishly decorated . |