Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shanas ( 1979 ) , in her review of American data on family support for the elderly , notes that women are two or three times more likely than men to say that no one helped them during a period of illness . |
| 2 | Moreover , individuals in a population will change in unison , with very little genetic variation between them during the period of change . |
| 3 | ‘ And you 're forgetting that she has the use of them during the period of her life , ’ he retorted crisply . |
| 4 | During the Second World War , for example , a number of government initiatives stimulated thinking about the resettlement of disabled people into open employment by channelling them through a period of ‘ industrial rehabilitation ’ . |
| 5 | Very often social anthropologists who study primitive tribes ‘ live ’ with them for a period of time using this role . |
| 6 | We monitored them for a period of about twelve months before we reported to members on the outcome . |
| 7 | Polisario announced that its forces had begun to relocate in the assembly areas allocated to them for the period of the ceasefire . |
| 8 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 9 | These aspects of the changing experience of the elderly will be surveyed , using primarily documentary sources , in order to reconstruct the experiences of an age group and attitudes to them in a period of significant social change . |
| 10 | Had she destroyed them in the period of bitterness towards Walter after his death ? |
| 11 | One of the other stock-market listed football clubs , Tottenham Hotspur , capitalises the cost of its players ' registrations and , after allowing for estimated residual values , amortises them over the period of the respective players ' contracts . |
| 12 | As the saying goes ‘ we clicked ’ and thus began a friendship and correspondence between Ella Shields and me over a period of years until her death in 1952 . |
| 13 | Usually it is not long before the female members of his family , and the wives of his friends and neighbours , come to his rescue to ‘ mother ’ him through the period of his grieving and depression , and some , whose children have grown up and left home , will find great pleasure in doing so . |
| 14 | Though she 'd never worked in insurance , her potential employers thought her smiling manner and evident efficiency would equip her well for the task , particularly as she appeared a quick learner , and did well in the practical assignment they gave her during the period of the interview itself . |
| 15 | When she has , through the process of grieving , faced the reality of her loss , you will need to be very patient with her through the period of depression that will follow , in which she may feel slowed up and extremely lethargic because , for a while , life will appear to her to have no further meaning or purpose . |
| 16 | I knew him over a period of about two years before he died . |
| 17 | The governors had placed great trust in him over the period of ten years ‘ during one of which it pleased its liberal Grand Visitor to take me with him to Ireland ’ . |
| 18 | erm On the question of the river samples and pool samples , yes , I think one of the city pools , one of the school pools we had a bit of a problem , so that took much of concentrated attention of it for a period of two or three weeks , so that 's probably a reflection , I do n't think much of it relates to the river sample . |
| 19 | Its base at Amboyna was overrun in 1623 and some of its garrison tortured to death in an episode Dryden reckoned would still be remembered when he wrote a play about it in a period of anti-Dutch feeling 50 years later . |
| 20 | If we , if we decide what it is we want to look at and there is a consensus on that and then you look at it over a period of time and see , and see what 's revealed by it . |
| 21 | By putting a premium on the use of it , then presumably , there are going to be fewer people who are going to use it over a period of time . |
| 22 | Mm no he 's had it over a period of time , we think it may be hereditary cos his father had some back trouble too when he was alive |
| 23 | Apart from indicating past , present , and future reference , each past or future reference is marked to show whether the event in question is immediately connected to the present , is separated from it by a period of time but taking place on the same day , or is separated from the present by at least one night . |
| 24 | and then that will take us for a period of about probably three months cos we 're saying we 'll done one at least every six weeks . |