Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 2 | And eventually after a period of time that ins outer insulation will wear down , it will fray and it will break and it will expose the live and the neutral wires until , unfortunately sometimes , it will be a little bit too late . |
| 3 | However , fearing that the UN force would legitimize the loss of its territory to Serbia , Croatia also continued to insist that the force should be deployed only on the 560-km front lines and only for a period of six months . |
| 4 | In the twentieth century , and especially in the period following the Second World War , nationalist movements generally took the form of independence struggles against imperialist rule by European powers , or against less direct types of control which create a situation of dependency . |
| 5 | In the twentieth century and especially in the period since 1945 , more and more workers have moved into service industries . |
| 6 | It is much better to build up endurance levels gradually and gently over a period of weeks and months . |
| 7 | A comparison of Sidonius and Avitus reveals something of the continuities and discontinuities of the late fifth and early sixth centuries , and thus of the period which saw the transformation of the barbarian settlements into fully fledged kingdoms . |
| 8 | A typical building of 10 storeys will sway back and forth in a period of 1 second , giving it a natural frequency of 1 cycle per second or 1 hertz . |
| 9 | More and more decisions seem to have been concentrated not merely in Westminster or Whitehall but , increasingly , and particularly during the period of office of the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) , in No. 10 Downing street . |
| 10 | John Elsley spoke for many booksellers up and down the country : ‘ Unemployment and the fear of unemployment have been a major adverse factor , during the year and particularly in the period up to Christmas . ’ |
| 11 | And even over a period as long as 15 years we would be paying a lot less ( £184 millions ) than the £684 millions that will go next year to safeguard the Falkland Islands from the Argentinians — a matter which many ecologists see as a fight between two bald men over the possession of a comb . |
| 12 | This was discussed with the Jones who resolutely maintained that now that ‘ the problem ’ was solved they were going back to normal and apart from the period of intervention they had not changed what they did at all . |
| 13 | Having decided that the doctrine of automatic determination ( ie determination of a contract solely at the will of the party who was guilty of a wrongful repudiatory breach ) did not exist , even in employment contracts , Megarry V-C concluded that as the breach had not been accepted by the innocent party then the contract subsisted and therefore for the period which it had to run — circa four and a half years — the defendant was bound by its terms . |
| 14 | The equation of a person 's worth , both morally and socially , with their ability to be eloquent is found iterated both implicitly and explicitly throughout the period . |