Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , betas were calculated for the period 1926–31 and portfolios selected from these results ; then the returns were estimated for these portfolios using data from the period 1932 . |
| 2 | These references , which were given over the period continually to 1984 , undoubtedly had an effect on the ability of Berg to engage in large scale bill discounting transactions with other banks . ’ |
| 3 | Our analysis includes the geographical area covered by Gardner et al but follows it too closely in time to provide data to test their findings ; only cases 12–14 in table III ( one non-Hodgkin lymphoma , one leukaemia , one Hodgkin 's disease ) were diagnosed after the period covered by the Gardner study and moreover all three were conceived before the parents moved to Seascale . |
| 4 | Studies using X-ray analysis have shown that some paintings , such as Renoir 's The umbrellas , were painted over a period of years , with several definite alterations and distinct stages involved in the painting . |
| 5 | Based on the forecasts of the Labour government 's Green Paper of 1977 , 550,000 fewer houses were built during the period 1976–86 than were envisaged as being necessary in order to satisfy the anticipated need . |
| 6 | Volumes were selected from the period 1982–92 and only original articles were eligible for analysis ( including letters but not correspondence in Nature ) . |
| 7 | John Szarkowski wrote in the preface to the first volume : " Atget 's own prints were made over a period of many years , on a variety of photographic papers . |
| 8 | Certainly , it seems very possible that both were produced in a period of reconstruction immediately following the termination of hostilities and the payment of compensation for Mul . |
| 9 | But Faussett failed to appreciate the true significance of his discoveries ; in his journal , kept for the years 1757 to 1773 and later published as Inventorium Sepulchrale under the editorship of Charles Roach Smith in 1856 , the remains were attributed to the period of Roman occupation , while Smith preferred a purely British origin . |
| 10 | Thirty-four new stations were opened in the period 1900 to 1914 . |
| 11 | The favoured species , if that is the right adjective , tended to be locusts , pigs , and cattle , but Edward P. Evans , in his marvellous book , The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals , published in 1906 , lists numerous others , including eels , weevils , dolphins , and turtle-doves , that were prosecuted over the period AD 824–1906 . |
| 12 | Age specific incidence according to period and birth cohort — Age specific incidence rates were compared for the periods 1943–62 , 1963–77 , and 1978–87 . |
| 13 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 14 | Allowing for transactions costs , futures were overpriced in the period before the October 1987 crash , while after the crash there were few mispricings . |
| 15 | The tensions that did arise were generated during the period of readjustment and later resolved . |
| 16 | There is some evidence that Cornish tin-mining maintained a reasonable level of production , although with some fluctuations : a sharp drop just after the Black Death and a boom at the end of the fourteenth century were followed by a period of depression in the half-century after 1430 , with a considerable recovery by the early sixteenth century . |
| 17 | In sum , the general impression to be gained from the literature is that industrial profits were slimmed over the period , but by nothing like as much as bald balance sheet figures suggest , and that an easing in the cost of finance over the 1960s was followed by a hardening in the early 1970s . |
| 18 | More than half a million party officials were promoted during the period of 1934 – 39 . |
| 19 | Delegates to the district zemstva were elected for a period of three years by three categories of voter voting separately : landowners , property-owners in the towns , and delegates from the volosti . |
| 20 | A total of 9.4 per cent , equivalent to 33,000 miles , were destroyed during the period 1984-90 , some of them dating back to Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 21 | Their social characteristics , the type of crime of which they were accused and the district in which the crime took place were recorded for the period 1896 — 1905 ( Appendix A ) . |
| 22 | Ten non-radiological incidents were recorded during the period , one being a lost time accident reportable under RIDDO Regulations . |
| 23 | Harris reported a survey in Newcastle Polytechnic library in which 8,500 volumes ( or 10% of the stock ) were studied for a period of 19 months . |
| 24 | In the Hall study accidents at 177 signalized crossroads were analysed over a period of four years , over this period accidents involving a vehicle turning right outnumbered those to vehicles turning left by a ratio of 6.6:1 ( accidents involving one vehicle turning in each direction were excluded from the analysis ) . |
| 25 | The 60% allowance was applied to the new land allocations required by policy HP4 because the necessary completions were required in the period to 1996 . |
| 26 | In addition , potential shareholders were offered telephone vouchers or a bonus share issue if the shares were held for a period of three years , in order to try to prevent the immediate sale of shares after the issue . |
| 27 | District competitions were held over a period of six months and finalists and runners-up from these matches went on to represent their district at the area competition . |
| 28 | Most of the original immigrants were recruited during the period of labour shortages in the 1950s and 1960s for particular types of jobs including the textile industry and more menial tasks in the service sector . |
| 29 | Spare Rib was already well established , and was joined for a period by the Leveller , another collective magazine , and the East End News , which produced the first attempt to appeal to ‘ the masses ’ of East London by dressing up Right-On concerns in chirpy Chas'n'Dave-style modernized Cockney . |
| 30 | A project to research the method was undertaken over a period of approximately one year on a part-time basis ; at various stages a number of different practitioners from management services disciplines were involved , each receiving some informal training on the principles and practice of soft systems analysis . |