Example sentences of "[prep] [art] two-year period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The favourable labour conditions and the strong commitment of the Attlee government to regional policy resulted in substantial progress in this field : development areas gained 51 per cent of the total new industrial building during the two-year period 1945–7 . |
| 2 | The Minister said that the peak age for offending has risen to 18 from 15 , but he chose the end of the two-year period that I would describe as covering the most vulnerable young people on whom the Government have picked in the past 12 years . |
| 3 | Readers may like to think about the sort of policy interactions involved by asking themselves what would be the effects upon social life and social policy of the reintroduction of a two-year period of compulsory national service . |
| 4 | Kawaller , Koch and Koch ( 1987 ; 1988 ) examined the S&P500 index for leads and lags between the spot and futures prices using transactions data for a two-year period ( 1984–5 ) . |
| 5 | The Field Chair is elected for a two-year period by the staff members of the field committee and is eligible for re-election . |
| 6 | The council of the 41-member International Cocoa Organization ( ICCO ) on March 30 voted almost unanimously to extend the 1986 International Cocoa Agreement between producers and consumers [ see p. 35294 ] for a two-year period from Oct. 1 , but without its provisions to regulate world supplies and prices , which had been suspended since 1988 . |
| 7 | The plant , built in 1974 , had a poor safety record and had been closed for a two-year period following a failure in the control system in 1985 , and could no longer provide electricity at a competitive price . |
| 8 | This had been the basic premise of a proposal made in late August by the Netherlands ( holder of the presidency of the Council of Ministers in the second half of 1991 ) specifying four conditions for economic convergence : ( i ) a high degree of price stability , indicated by a level of inflation close to that of the best-performing state for a two-year period ; ( ii ) a sustainable government financial position , indicated by budget deficits deemed not to be excessive ; ( iii ) currency within the 2.5 per cent fluctuation margins of the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European Monetary System for at least two years without devaluation against other member state 's currency ; and ( iv ) a close approximation of comparable interest rates to those member states with the best performance in terms of price stability . |
| 9 | These records are kept for a two-year period only , within which time some 40,000 issues are made . |
| 10 | The bill introduced last year by the Flemish senator Herman Suykerbuyk , and based on the French ‘ loi Lang ’ , proposes that discounts should be limited to 5% during a two-year period following the publication of a book . |
| 11 | If the project fails within the two-year period it should be abandoned . |
| 12 | If the project fails within the two-year period it should be abandoned . |
| 13 | In practice a great deal of discretion is exercised by the Revenue with regard to this section , but to avoid an unexpected tax liability in relation to the transfer by the husband of the former matrimonial home to the wife the husband is well advised to consider making his election within the two-year period . |
| 14 | There was , however , some increase in exports , especially , as we have seen above , in the two-year period 1983–5 . |
| 15 | Ninety-four of these theses had not been borrowed from BLDSC in the two-year period ( 66% ) . |
| 16 | In other words , one third of BLDSC 's theses on Scottish geology were borrowed within a two-year period . |
| 17 | A study in one polytechnic found that 11% of the bookstock was in circulation , while in another two samples taken from law and the humanities revealed that three issues per volume was the average use per annum , and that two-thirds of the items were loaned in a two-year period . |
| 18 | In a two-year period from 1979 the ‘ Teaching of study skills project ’ investigated the teaching of study skills amongst 16–19 year olds . |
| 19 | Unremitting poverty , seven children and a husband unable to do hard physical work because of a series of minor heart attacks , caused my Mam to have a ‘ mental breakdown ’ when I was seven years old ; the treatment for this breakdown included her having twenty electric shocks in a two-year period . |
| 20 | In a two-year period of review from late 1981 the Course as a whole and all fields within it reviewed overall principles , the design of the Course and the specific contributions of subject areas . |
| 21 | The areas of experience necessary for the full satisfaction of the Test requirements have proven very difficult to acquire over the two-year period , since what is available to the candidate is conditional upon the type of practice he is in and the volume and the quality or variety of commissions received . |
| 22 | Wherever you train you will work in at least three , but usually four or five different areas of the law over the two-year period . |
| 23 | However , the degree also has a taught component , as students must attend at least one postgraduate seminar every term over the two-year period of the degree , and are examined on their work in these courses . |
| 24 | The club 's financial performance has been shattered by the incurring of revenues expenditure approaching £1 million over a two-year period to make good various defects , including gas leaks , to the new Bedser Stand and Ken Barrington Centre . |
| 25 | It was something that he and I talked about over a two-year period , and then he got hit with throat cancer a little over a year ago . |
| 26 | I visited the Tate several times over a two-year period . |
| 27 | He says on a 500-acre farm the cost of an innocent error in completing the complicated forms might be a loss of more than £100,000 over a two-year period and assured bankruptcy for the farmer concerned . |
| 28 | It was at least the sixth time over a two-year period that the unveiling had been postponed . |
| 29 | This means that , over a two-year period , we had identified 1,661 heroin users known to official agencies in Wirral-6.3 per 1,000 of the adult population . |
| 30 | Over a two-year period , ‘ Laura Ashley ’ bought from Courtaulds two Stork flat bed printers , one Buser printer , ‘ the Rolls Royce of them all ’ , two pad mangles , a step and repeat machine and a 15,000 lb. boiler . |