Example sentences of "be [adv] a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Now it 's a lot of people , it 's only a short period of time , is n't it , one month . |
3 | Your son has suffered a terrible loss — six months is not a long period of time to get over such a trauma . |
4 | This is still a vital period for the new resident . |
5 | 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 ? |
6 | It was not a twenty-year period of formal civil conflict . |
7 | The third quarter of the century was therefore a fertile period of experiments in the mobilisation of capital for industrial development . |