Example sentences of "a given period " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the publisher has failed to exploit the song in any manner , within a given period of time , the songwriter is able to have all rights in the songs returned . |
| 2 | The ecological significance of these precipitation figures in terms of soil moisture may be judged by relating them to the amount of moisture lost through evaporation and transpiration over a given period . |
| 3 | Figure 4 Daily counting chart to show how often a child does something within a given period of time Source : M. Herbert , Behavioural Treatment of Children with Problems ( London : Academic Press , 1987 ) |
| 4 | The incidence rate measures how many new cases of a disease appear in a given period , whereas the prevalence rate measures how many cases in total exist , either at one point of time ( the point prevalence rate ) , or in a fixed period ( the period prevalence rate ) . |
| 5 | Both market research and government survey units use consumer panels of housewives for budget enquiries , finding out what the housewife spends on what over a given period by means of a diary of spending . |
| 6 | It is not therefore surprising that computing laboratories in universities put limits on the amount of output that users can expect in a given period of time . |
| 7 | As well as penalties laid down for breaking the contract ( perhaps no evenings out for a given period ? ) , there need to be rewards for keeping it , perhaps in the form of a family treat . |
| 8 | Commentators are also pressing for a staggered implementation , with companies being allowed to report progress on compliance for a given period of time . |
| 9 | In this case , the researcher asks the subjects of the research to keep a detailed diary over a given period . |
| 10 | There are two key measures : ( 1 ) the incidence rate ( the number of new cases over a given period , usually a year ) and ( 2 ) the prevalence rate ( the number of cases/persons affected in the population at a particular moment in time ) . |
| 11 | Quite apart from these constraints there are more familiar problems associated with compound growth calculations : the weighting of capital and labour is on the crude basis of their respective shares in gross domestic income ; the technique of weighting from year to year is , as always , a compromise between different types of index ; compound rates of change are constant over a given period and , therefore , may not adequately reflect sharp movements within the period . |
| 12 | Insider dealing in this respect is controlled by restricting the number of traders who have access to information , a technique which they believe is easier than trying to control how much information is announced over a given period of time . |
| 13 | Within marriage , in Gorer 's group , the most frequent rate of intercourse — the number of times within a given period in which intercourse generally took place — was once or twice a week , in about a third of the marriages concerned . |
| 14 | To arrive at the average length of an English sentence , one should ideally amass a complete corpus of the language at a given period . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , certain collectivities acquire a certain salience or pertinence in relation to the dominant political issues of a given period . |
| 16 | The material to be dyed is first thoroughly moistened and then placed in a solution of the mordant , simmered for a given period of time , about an hour , and then put , still wet , into the dyeing solution . |
| 17 | The thrust of the ensuing analysis will be the attempt to disclose the process of mediation whereby the political and ideological history of a given period is produced and reproduced in three consecutive texts . |
| 18 | Payment of social security contributions over a given period ‘ entitles ’ the payer to a benefit , ( though only until the law is changed ! ) . |
| 19 | The state forces children to be educated for a given period , if necessary against the parents ' wishes or indifference . |
| 20 | In some cases a carefully monitored rolling programme ensured that over a given period of time , say a week or a fortnight , the teacher engaged directly with every child in every area of the curriculum ; but in other cases the inequality of investment was not adjusted in this way , and the result was the persistent neglect of certain children and certain areas of the curriculum . |
| 21 | Also by virtue of its ability to predict whether a company will survive for a given period of time , it can give the credit manager more confidence to enter into long term relationships with customers . |
| 22 | One agent has exclusive selling rights for a given period . |
| 23 | What it basically means is that if someone makes a gift during his lifetime and-does n't die for a given period , that gift is free of estate duty , or partly free . |
| 24 | Call rate ( number of calls in a given period ) |
| 25 | Soviet studies underlined that historically neutralised and demilitarised territories had often been created on the basis of unequal treaties and had resulted from the inability of the colonial powers at a given period to agree to the direct partition of a colony . |
| 26 | This was because car manufacturers gave retailers bonus payments if there were sufficient new registrations during a given period . |
| 27 | The remainder are calculated by calibrating the theoretical model such that the parameters are consistent with equilibrium in the market in a given period . |
| 28 | Not all the decisions in a given period can be carried out , since many of them may erroneously anticipate and depend upon other decisions which are in fact not being made . |
| 29 | Again , many decisions which are successfully carried out in a given period may not turn out to have been the best possible courses of action . |
| 30 | They sold to the buyers 120,000 out of the 200,000 gallons and gave the buyers the benefit of free storage at X 's for a given period , i.e. down to January 31 . |