Example sentences of "to a [adj] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appointment will be subject to a three-year probationary period . |
| 2 | He then turned on Chlothar , but his own death , from dysentery , and the subsequent elimination of his family in 613 , led to the reunification of the Frankish kingdom and brought to a close one period of Merovingian civil war . |
| 3 | Nowadays , however , specialists often restrict themselves not only to a particular type of find , but also to a specific archaeological period . |
| 4 | That he thought this possible is suggested by his comments on Frazer whom he saw not as an investigator of a remote and hence irrelevant past , but as someone whose researches are like Freud 's , of apparently universal application , applying not to a particular historical period but to ‘ the soul ’ . |
| 5 | Here , it is necessary to distinguish between those conditions which may be regarded as universally relevant to the creation of a nation state , and those which are specific to a particular historical period . |
| 6 | Some people who have fewer external commitments ( single , unemployed , or self-employed individuals , for example ) might make less use of normal time-cues and their rhythms might even come closer to a 25-hour free-running period . |
| 7 | In other words , the Home Secretary would have a discretion to exercise from case to case , with the result that the duration of each warrant would vary , subject to a statutory maximum period . |