Example sentences of "[noun pl] after a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BET has been struggling to pay off debts after a period of over-expansion combined with the recession to hit profits . |
| 2 | Booth then cross-checked these impressions with those of other local people such as clergymen , and with the observations of his own investigators after a period of residence in a poor community . |
| 3 | Gustason ( 1983 ) reports progress in reading performance , as measured in a test of syntactic abilities after a period in a programme using Signing Exact English , as compared to the norms for deaf children . |
| 4 | My next trip was not so pleasant but nonetheless enlightening , It was with a scratch crew and an experienced navigator who , like myself , had returned to ops after a period in the training world , but also ( like myself ) utterly clueless about present day operations . |
| 5 | Unsafe sexual behaviour and HIV transmissions have increased among homosexual men after a period of decline . |
| 6 | THE CITY appeared reconciled yesterday to a hung parliament , with share prices , the pound and government bonds all showing modest gains after a period of sustained weakness . |