Example sentences of "[adv] a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The insecurities of life in the border districts , maturing over a period of 14 years , had produced Poles who were very Polish , and Germans who were very German . |
| 32 | Meryl accompanied her feeble joke with a grimace , then stared as his face blanched over a period of seconds , and his fork hovered aimlessly between plate and mouth . |
| 33 | A founder of the St Clares Ladies Choir which performed over a period of years , she also found time to become a devoted and regular pilgrim to Lourdes , where her lovely voice became well known to those in the Torchlight Processions . |
| 34 | Pure Bouzy Champagnes , though profuse in number , are consistently high in quality and often improve over a period of eight to ten years in bottle . |
| 35 | She was cautious , though , and Edouard , watching her , realised that his relationship with his mother was changing yet again-that it had , perhaps , been altering over a period of time . |
| 36 | As conditions improved , the more hardy Koi were introduced , the rest following over a period of weeks . |
| 37 | After gorging itself it would lie down and go into a digestive torpor , and could alternately eat and doze over a period of several weeks . |
| 38 | If this dominance continues over a period of years though , how often does the feeling creep up on you that you 'd like to see this champion really tested , even beaten ? |
| 39 | The pH does tend to drop over a period of time in bare tanks ( that is tanks without any substrate or plants . |
| 40 | The government would compensate the nobility immediately and the peasantry would repay the government with annual redemption dues spread over a period of forty-nine years . |
| 41 | A loan is a sum of money borrowed over a period of time at a certain rate of interest . |
| 42 | For this purpose the current research project has about ECU6 million to spend over a period of two and a half years . |
| 43 | Instead , the money supply might contract over a period of time as the banking sector adjusts stage by stage to successive sales of gilt-edged securities . |
| 44 | Out of a total of seventeen boys from this group interviewed over a period of one year , no fewer than ten had been in trouble with the police for offences not connected with activities at football matches . |
| 45 | The parricide committed by human beings occurred over a period of perhaps thousands of years , and was repeated innumerable times all over the globe , for it was the primal horde that marked humanity off from nature , and began the social , historical and cultural evolution of man . |
| 46 | In several instances , the parents gradually became aware that something was ‘ wrong ’ : the user 's physical appearance deteriorated over a period of time ; household and personal items were unexplainedly missing from the home ; the user began borrowing heavily and often from parents and siblings . |
| 47 | Fertilisations may occur over a period of a month , but the most recent foetuses have the best chance to develop . |
| 48 | The plagues probably occurred over a period of about a year . |
| 49 | Four Minor Project schools were selected for closer investigation by the evaluation team and visited over a period of one or two days . |
| 50 | Average response speed tended to decrease over a period of twenty minutes in sleep-deprived subjects , unlike in rested controls . |
| 51 | He conducted research into how artefacts gradually develop over a period of time , the study of which is known as typology . |
| 52 | The government provided compensation for the nobility , while the peasantry were to repay the government in annual redemption dues spread over a period of 49 years . |
| 53 | The effect of these regulations , so far as the Woolwich Building Society was concerned , was to subject it over a period of 24 months ( 6 April 1986 to 5 April 1988 ) to tax on 29 months of income , amounting to an excess of some £76m . |
| 54 | Although occasionally Nizan 's assessment of a writer fluctuated over a period of time ( Gide , Giono , Mauriac ) , although on occasions Nizan was simultaneously attracted and repelled by individual writers ( Mauriac , Drieu la Rochelle , Celine ) , the bottom line was always a clear differentiation between a progressive and a reactionary attitude to culture . |
| 55 | Further heated correspondence followed over a period of months , illustrating that strong views were held on both sides and that the time for agreement had not arrived . |
| 56 | This new venture aims over a period of three years to train up to ninety students not only as teachers of BSL but as BSL English interpreters . |
| 57 | The partnership was successfully liquidated over a period of years and it was left to John Baring to rebuild the business in the form of a limited company . |
| 58 | As we mentioned earlier , once a logogen reaches threshold , its activation level does not immediately return to its normal resting level ; it decays over a period of a second or so . |
| 59 | My colleagues and I in Wales Link were greatly looking forward to her visit , planned over a period of 18 months . |
| 60 | To avoid settlement problems at this location a surcharge embankment was constructed and monitored over a period of 8 months . |