Example sentences of "[coord] a [adj] period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the LFS code book , temporary jobs in the first category can include jobs the termination of which " is fixed for , by example , reaching a certain date or completing an assignment , or by return of an employee who has been temporarily replaced " ( our italics ) i.e. jobs that could fit equally well into the second category whilst jobs in the second category are taken to include those with " a work contract for a specific task or a fixed period of time " ( our italics ) i.e jobs that could fit equally well into the first category . |
| 2 | And the outcome of the general election , due next year , would seem to be either a hopelessly splintered parliament or a second period of ‘ co-habitation ’ between a Socialist president and a conservative prime minister . |
| 3 | Float ( i.e. the lapse of time between the end of a work element and the following dependent work element ) or a programmed period of unproductive time within a work element has to be recognized in both the tender and subsequent programmes . |
| 4 | All are influenced by a strongly seasonal climate with abundant rainfall during the summer months and a dry period of between 4 and 8 months . |
| 5 | Let us have in mind , only slightly less imprecisely , a period of light in London and thereabouts , that one I now call yesterday , and a following period of darkness , last night . |
| 6 | A red semi-regular variable in the Great Bear , with a range from 6.8 to 9.1 and a rough period of 198 days ; for part of the time it is an easy binocular object . |
| 7 | After a long period of depression , and a short period of training , he had taken on a new career — one which also demanded dexterity with the hands : that of a mortician . |
| 8 | Despite a programme of Russification ( including a ban on the use of Ukrainian in schools and publications ) , a strongly nationalist movement emerged in the late nineteenth century which led to pressure for greater autonomy and a brief period of independence immediately after the October revolution . |
| 9 | The LCC grant aid scheme offered £2 million to local authorities to buy up land for green belt purposes , and a vigorous period of purchase ensued between 1935 and 1939 . |
| 10 | A report by Barclays Bank economics department in August 1991 stated that " in structural terms the economy has to face the prospect of the single market in the EC and a further period of deregulation " . |
| 11 | Spreading ridges can decrease the total volume of the world 's oceans , but a prolonged period of volcanism may also have increased the total volume of water . |
| 12 | Varieties can develop behavioural ‘ isolating mechanisms ’ , such as differences in courtship , which prevent interbreeding even when it is genetically possible — but a brief period of physical isolation is needed to allow the populations to develop the differences that will prevent them blending back together again if they come into contact . |