Example sentences of "to a [adj] [noun] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 14 it was announced that the government had reached agreement with the United States for the rescheduling of repayments of debt principal and interest totalling US$47,000,000 , due between June 1 , 1991 , and June 30 , 1992 ; part of this — US$18,700,000 due to the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) — was to be postponed for 10 years , while the rest was to be subject to a six-year grace period . |
| 2 | The original owner can always recover subject to a six-year limitation period . |
| 3 | The new code would be subjected to a three-month consultation period and was expected to become effective in the autumn of 1990 . |
| 4 | I do , however , keep giving the actors directions which belong to a five-week rehearsal period and then have to tell them to forget what I 've just said . |
| 5 | Observations from the Earth of the east-west motion of small features in the Jovian clouds led some time ago to a sidereal rotation period for the equatorial region of 9h 50m 30.003s , and 9h 55m 40.632s for the rest of Jupiter . |
| 6 | you 'd be expected to , to do a lot of work by yourself , and that 's reflecting the fact that erm you 'll probably have four or five lessons in each of your three subjects , but most people would choose three subjects for A level , and that means that er , when you 're not having lessons , you 've got a lot of time that is not accountable for , you will have been , or going to a general studies period and stuff like that , but there will be a fair number of private study periods , erm , there are some people I think who , who go overboard , and you 've got such a different approach erm from er the lower sixth , people do n't use the time that they have , erm , what I 'm really saying is that if you go into the sixth form and you spend less school time in the sixth form you do n't need to be prepared |
| 7 | In midwifery , the delay due to a specialized training period and the slightly greater proportion of unmarried women modifies the pattern slightly . |
| 8 | We recommend that future project initiatives of this kind should give much more thought to the structures and procedures , both within project schools and at the level of overall planning and coordination which are required to ensure that initiatives are not confined to a particular time period or grant , and that the inservice implications of good practice resulting from the project are capitalised upon . |
| 9 | ‘ Lifetime ’ partners do not refer to a finite time period but to partners since first sexual intercourse ‘ so far ’ ; this may be the most inaccurate measure because of difficulties of recall , whereas discrepancies over shorter time intervals are much smaller . |
| 10 | Under U.S. GAAP accounting for goodwill as an offset against shareholders ' equity is not permitted ; rather goodwill must be amortized over the period of its expected useful life , subject to a maximum write-off period of 40 years , through the income statement . |
| 11 | The NVQ system allowed learning at students ' own speeds compared with the three-year registration period of the Institute , which might have to change to an annual registration period and fee as a consequence . |