Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 31 | Our study design explains how we could detect a significant difference in urinary albumin excretion between two treatments in a small number of subjects for a short period of time : monthly measurements over 12 months increased the precision and consequently the power of our trial . |
| 32 | In response the Interior Minister , José Luis Corcuera , on Feb. 24 challenged ETA to suspend violence for a six-month period as proof of its new willingness to talk . |
| 33 | This undoubtedly cushioned the Club during a difficult period . |
| 34 | On both days , the plants achieved their best-ever power production figure for a 24-hour period . |
| 35 | Nevertheless , it is common that preference shares with a right to a cumulative dividend obtain voting rights if the dividend is in arrears for a specified period . |
| 36 | Kawaller , Koch and Koch ( 1987 ; 1988 ) examined the S&P500 index for leads and lags between the spot and futures prices using transactions data for a two-year period ( 1984–5 ) . |
| 37 | If the change is exothermic T s will exceed T r for a short period , but if it is endothermic T s will temporarily lag behind T r . |
| 38 | In mildly hypertensive non-insulin-dependent patients a recent controlled study using an intended diet shown in Table 3.4 lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure , improved glycaemic control and reduced weight during a three-month period ( Dodson et al , 1984 ) . |
| 39 | it led me to think that players who come through the youth system should be ‘ guaranteed ’ a huge loyalty bonus after a certain period . |
| 40 | Similarly , it is shrewd of him to play for the internationalist vote after a prolonged period of sullen Little Englandism during which Labour threatened to withdraw from the Common Market and called into question this country 's role within Nato . |
| 41 | Consequently many Greek writers of the fifth century and later realized that their own society was the end-product of a long period of advance . |
| 42 | In any case , a study of neolithic Early Minoan buildings very strongly implies that the temples were not an implant but the result of a long period of indigenous development . |
| 43 | By then the ethnic composition of its native population was multifarious and complex , being the result of a long period of prehistoric development . |
| 44 | He suggested that a day or so of drunken dissipation was the result of a previous period of intense labour . |
| 45 | Professor John in a seminal article stressed the great importance of the coincidence of a modest rate of population growth , putting no general pressure on a food supply expanded by a generation of agricultural improvement , with the bounty of a long period of good harvests . |
| 46 | In fact it is a remnant of a disastrous period in the history of European felines . |
| 47 | As an ex-member of 64 Squadron I would appreciate this recognition of a memorable period of RAF history . |
| 48 | They , they had a documentary on Metros apparently and the Me they said that Metros of a certain period for about , I think from his period sort of A registration , B registration , Y registration they 're absolute rubbish apparently . |
| 49 | In May , 30 people were killed in three smashes within a two-week period . |
| 50 | It would , however , be proper for a circular letter to indicate that in the absence of any contrary indication within a specified period the client 's affairs would be acted upon in accordance with instructions previously given to the acquired firm . |
| 51 | Emphasizing the failure of the courts to resolve civil disputes within a reasonable period of time , Kidder argues that the fault lay with the structure of typical disputes in India . |
| 52 | On 7 June 1972 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ( OSHA ) issued a standard on asbestos exposure at work which took effect over a four-year period to 1 July 1976 . |
| 53 | This can have a rather unsettling effect over a long period — the family man can not promise to take his children to the seaside or his wife out to dinner more than a week ahead without the chance that he might be in India , California or Scotland at the time he promised . |
| 54 | The Government did however put in a £200 million investment programme over a four-year period ( the previous annual average , apart from one missile development programme , had been £5 million ) . |
| 55 | The Commission approved on Dec. 17 , 1989 , for the third framework programme , its key technology research and development initiative , a budget of 5,700 million ECU over a five-year period of which one-third was to be for research into information technology . |
| 56 | The fraud involved creation of false profits and stocks in the books over a seven-year period through use of purported contracts , which in reality did not exist , with third world countries . |
| 57 | The IMF decided , in 1988 , that the limit to enlarged access would be 440 per cent of a country 's quota over a three-year period . |
| 58 | Borrowers are able to use the facility up to 140 per cent of their quota over a four-year period and with much more relaxed repayment conditions than the normal facilities . |
| 59 | The giant ground sloths and armadillos of the past were clearly South American in character , showing that this continent had been populated by unique families of animals over a vast period of time . |
| 60 | A stability test involves the accumulation of a substantial amount of data over a prolonged period of time and may require the production of reports at several stages of the test . |