Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.

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1 Elementals often appear as a moving light or a change in temperature , or they may take the form of an animal or bird and make it behave oddly for a period of time .
2 Where the County Court grants a new lease to the tenant it may do so for a period not exceeding 14 years .
3 AQUARIUS — IN TIME to come Aquarians will look back on the period between mid-1991 and the end of 1993 as a watershed .
4 Even so , considerable errors can build up over the period of ten or more years that elapses between one Census date and the time when the finalized results of the next Census can be used .
5 I do not feel able to speculate as to whether or not it will recover sufficiently over the period in which we are dealing as to be again a and situation .
6 They will try harder for a period until they realize that this strategy no longer works .
7 Now if we can go back to the period when the eighty odd agreements was developed into one national agreement , it seemed to break up what we would term a big happy family .
8 Babies who for surgical reasons can not feed orally for a period can be helped with opportunities for non-nutritive sucking on dummies ( Bernbaum et al .
9 Design a chart the parents can fill in for a period of one week .
10 If , as recent work has suggested ( Ch.1 ) , the sustained growth of population from the doldrums of the fifteenth century began to affect the economy in the early years of the sixteenth century rather than previously , this would come close to the period when the volume of criticism of enclosures became more vocal and more explicit .
11 All the small modifications should add up over a period of time to make major achievements .
12 They may also trade commercially for a period not exceeding 13 weeks , during the course of their ACE employment .
13 It is true that despite her natural handicaps and the overriding barrier to mobility and enterprise represented by serfdom , Russia 's non-agricultural economy did expand substantially in the period .
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