Example sentences of "[adj] for a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 31 | These records can frighten parents because some behaviours are seen to get worse for a short period . |
| 32 | Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) . |
| 33 | Lawson himself , while neither tactful nor popular , was astonishingly successful for a long period . |
| 34 | If a participant leaves in other circumstances ( retirement excepted ) the option will lapse unless the Directors exercise their discretion to keep it open for a longer period . |
| 35 | If such exercises are repeated quickly enough to cause you to become breathless for a prolonged period , you will be building stamina too . |
| 36 | The power of the minister arises under the National Health Service Act 1977 if he considers that by reason of an emergency it is necessary for a specified period to transfer functions from one body to another . |
| 37 | The committee was also told yesterday that the threat of bankruptcy action against deliberate non-payers of the poll tax was having a positive effect in reducing debts which stand at more than £100 million for a three-year period . |
| 38 | The committee was also told yesterday that the threat of bankruptcy action against deliberate non-payers of the poll tax was having a positive effect in reducing debts which stand at more than £100 million for a three-year period . |
| 39 | Leah bore him children , but Rachel was barren for a long period during which Jacob had children by her maidservant before she eventually gave birth to Joseph and then Benjamin . |
| 40 | Some countries require passports to be valid for a certain period after leaving that country and you are advised to check details with the Consulate of any country you will be travelling to . |
| 41 | It seems likely , in short , that they have erred through applying principles which are valid for a later period but were not yet operative in the time of Molla Husrev . |
| 42 | Lome IV was signed in December 1989 ( see p. 37133 ) and was to come into effect in March 1990 for a 10-year period ( unlike the previous conventions , whose duration had been five years ) . |
| 43 | He was chosen as president of the provisional government , based in Shanghai in 1919 , but visited Shanghai only in 1920–21 for a limited period . |
| 44 | Larvae may immediately become bottom dwellers or pelagic for a short period to be broadcast over vast distances by ocean currents . |