Example sentences of "[prep] a short period " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a short period under Mr Nind 's regime , they had started writing their letters backwards . |
| 2 | After a short period back in Baghdad , Winchester returned to Britain to command 241 Field Company , which was then in Scotland on mountain training . |
| 3 | When Margaret Baxter died after a short period of illness on the 14th. of June 1681 , Richard felt her loss very deeply . |
| 4 | Yet it is known that between one third and one half of mentally handicapped people currently resident in mental handicap hospitals should not be in hospital and could be either immediately discharged or discharged after a short period of training . |
| 5 | After a short period at Sussex , he played 24 Tests for Australia . |
| 6 | The dog will then usually be quiet , and after a short period you can remove the cover . |
| 7 | After a short period of induction the successful candidate will be expected to lead ( as Study Director ) a team of scientists performing radiolabelled ( 14 C , 3 H , 125 I ) metabolism studies in laboratory animals and man ( Ref No 0251 ) . |
| 8 | After being shot down during the Battle of Britain , Stienhilper became a PoW and after a short period in a British camp was transferred to Canada . |
| 9 | It is much better to get out of bed and return after a short period when you feel more tired . |
| 10 | He was sent home from hospital after a short period , since the doctors thought it more important that he should be there with his wife , and he shouted " hurrah ! hurrah ! hurrah ! " as he was carried over the threshold . |
| 11 | In addition , there is no guarantee that the assisted emigrants will not return to their communities after a short period . |
| 12 | Her condition improved , and she returned to the ward after a short period of ventilation in intensive care . |
| 13 | After a short period as a private tutor , he became private secretary to the Liberal industrialist MP , Sir John Brunner [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | However , after a short period in 1732 at the Dissenting Academy in Findern , Derbyshire , he became a justices ' clerk in Sheffield until 1737 and then commenced work as a carrier between Sheffield and Macclesfield . |
| 15 | After a short period as quarantine master in Bombay in 1832 , Haines was appointed to the survey ship Palinurus to chart the south coast of Arabia . |
| 16 | After a short period working with a girls ' club in Lambeth ( an LMH settlement ) , she became involved in the non-militant suffrage movement . |
| 17 | Next he turned his attention to the Latin pieces and finally , after a short period ( 1613–16 ) at the Dresden court with its greater resources , produced a group of publications of which the most important is the Polyhymnia Caduceatrix et Panegyrica ( 1619 ) . |
| 18 | Charlemagne was lucky in that his only brother , four years younger than himself , died in 771 after a short period of increasingly fraught joint-rule ; but it took more than luck to remove that brother 's sons — they , and their mother , disappeared when their uncle defeated and imprisoned their protector , the Lombard king . |
| 19 | But the designer must not go too far in the other direction by filling the schedule with deeply sensitive and thought-provoking questions so that the respondent is exhausted after a short period . |
| 20 | I was particularly distressed when I personally sanctioned his return to operational flying after a short period as an instructor at an OTU . |
| 21 | Where keg milds and bitters are concerned , when fermentation is complete they are conditioned for a short period in tanks under a heavy blanket of carbon dioxide . |
| 22 | In the case of keg milds and bitters when fermentation is complete they are conditioned for a short period under gas pressure and are then filtered to remove yeast solids and pasteurised . |
| 23 | For a short period from 1952 to 1954 he was Professor of Conducting at the Warsaw Conservatoire . |
| 24 | It says that about 98,000 young people go missing annually , sometimes only for a short period . |
| 25 | Following the pattern of community constables in England , where the overwhelming majority are male ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 9 ) , there are no females among Easton 's neighbourhood constables , although for a short period the sergeant was female . |
| 26 | Cheddars may be hard or semi-hard ; they are pressed lightly for a matter of hours and then more firmly for a short period of days . |
| 27 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 28 | Viscount Melbourne became Prime Minister in July 1835 , but by the end of that year , it was necessary for the Duke of Wellington to become Prime Minister for a short period , followed for about one year by Sir Robert Peel , who had been Home Secretary and had introduced the first Police Force , enrolling men who soon became known as ‘ Peelers ’ or ‘ Bobbies ’ , after the founder . |
| 29 | Lord Derby had again become Prime Minister in 1866 to be replaced for a short period by Benjamin Disraeli , but by the end of 1868 Mr. W. E. Gladstone took control of Parliament , and was to remain in control for over five years . |
| 30 | The UK 's objection to the proposed Directive was that it was ‘ unreasonably restrictive ’ to designate large river catchments ‘ simply because , for a short period of time in the autumn , the water may temporarily exceed 50 mg/litre although throughout the rest of the year it will be well below that figure . ’ |