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 .
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