Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 91 | On June 22 , West Germany agreed to restructure over a 14-year period a debt of DM3,000 million due for payment by March 1991 . |
| 92 | Young children do imitate the aggressive acts of televised models as much as live models ; furthermore , this effect persists over a considerable period of time and is particularly pronounced when the aggressive model is portrayed as successful . |
| 93 | In such studies records of a very large number of events are taken over a considerable period of time and memory for the events is subsequently tested . |
| 94 | The composition of these works stretched over a considerable period of time . |
| 95 | The US Energy Department needs to find a site to store nuclear waste accumulated over a forty-year period which will remain dangerously radioactive for tens of thousands of years . |
| 96 | Some 15 improved variants of Mig-21 emerged over a 25-year period , to impressive effect : the latest models possessing almost double the range and payload of the first . |
| 97 | Much will depend on the overall political climate and whether this can be changed sufficiently by a combined strategy conducted over a sustained period . |
| 98 | The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority 's excess rent allowance operates over a nine-year period . |
| 99 | Together with radiometric age determinations of the most recent eruptive episode , such reconstructions enable estimates to be made of the amount of material eroded over a known period of time . |
| 100 | Last March , in common with many other small businesses , the Russells needed extra funds to tide them over a difficult period . |
| 101 | And notwithstanding the invariable belief of these coaches that their own programme-of-the-moment is writ large on a tablet just descended from Heaven , there are no absolutes about which kind of exercises are best to get you fit over a short period of time . |
| 102 | The idea would be to compile over a short period a national register of wealth holdings . |
| 103 | Ectothermic reptiles have a body temperature that tends to vary over a 24-hour period , and hence seem unable to support a large brain . |
| 104 | It was not a twenty-year period of formal civil conflict . |
| 105 | Your son has suffered a terrible loss — six months is not a long period of time to get over such a trauma . |
| 106 | This is still a vital period for the new resident . |
| 107 | While this is admittedly still a lengthy period , it is significantly quicker than under the ordinary procedure . |
| 108 | In particular , the New Moon present in your own birth sign on the 29th will trigger off a new period of some really quite remarkable and reassuring developments in your very personal life . |
| 109 | On the seven-day cooling-off period , it is correct , as the Minister says , that there are similar provisions in other European countries , but will he confirm that , in those countries where there is a cooling-off period for unions , there is also a cooling-off period for employers ? |
| 110 | One of the most important limitations on statutory safeguards is the insistence that , to qualify for most rights , you must have built up a specified period of continuous employment . |
| 111 | It is now a beautiful period residence , restored with great care and until recently kept as a private home . |
| 112 | Finally , the contract is often a fixed period one . |
| 113 | Often a rent-free period is not an inducement but just a rearrangement of the overall rent , or reflects the fact that the tenant can not put the building into use until he has carried out certain work . |
| 114 | Writing the play brought back a whole period of his early life : not merely the marriage to Vivien but the friendship with Emily Hale . |
| 115 | The Act applies only to convictions which have resulted in a sentence of no more than thirty months ' imprisonment , and which have been " spent " — ie a certain period of time has elapsed since the passing of sentence . |
| 116 | What we 're trying to do is say look , you are senior people in this company because although you 've only been here a short period of time , but you 're still very senior people . |
| 117 | Course adjustments may be put into effect immediately in the case of full-time courses , while , in order to protect the interests of part-time students locked into the Institution 's examination programme , adequate forward notice and even a transitional period with parallel diets , have had to be offered . |
| 118 | So we see the difficulties of defining even a recent period of earth history , and the protagonists of the varied viewpoints would probably ( if it mattered at all ) argue just as fiercely as stratigraphers over the boundaries . |
| 119 | Studies at King 's College School of Medicine show that even a short period of hard pedalling on an exercise bike diverts blood flow from the uterus to the legs , ‘ stealing ’ oxygen from the foetus . |
| 120 | Any market situation can change rapidly over even a short period of time , as can be the case when a major competitor is suddenly declared bankrupt . |