Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] an [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | They moved north to Scotland for an intensive period of training , and he found himself in command of a section of young volunteers , many of whom were to serve with him later in the Middle East . |
| 2 | All Hanne knows is that the two of them are staying somewhere in Copenhagen for an indefinite period . ’ |
| 3 | Baldwin ( 1977 ) traced all child victims of severe abuse ( damage on the scale of multiple fractures , internal injuries , brain damage and death ) who were under the age of five years and living in North East Wiltshire over an eight-year period . |
| 4 | Between 1736 and 1738 Ramsay journeyed to Italy for an extended period of study , training under Francesco Imperiale in Rome and Francesco Solimena in Naples . |
| 5 | This gamble is not without its parallels : the city fathers of Bilbao have decided to build a museum of modern art , and rent works of art plus the Guggenheim name from the Guggenheim Foundation in New York for an initial period of twenty years ( see The Art Newspaper No. 5 April 1992 , p. 5 ) . |
| 6 | Dr Dodgson was commissioned by the ESRC for an additional period to develop the survey in a number of areas . |