Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 2 | With all Heyford 's jets and crew now home , the families are looking forward to a period of tranquility , |
| 3 | Strong and sometimes quite intense relationships with individuals are built up over a period of even a few weeks . |
| 4 | Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes . |
| 5 | Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back . |
| 6 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 7 | Is the Minister aware that , by 9 January , Bir Zeit university will have been closed continuously for a period of four years and that a generation of young Palestinians will have been denied the right to higher education , which is surely one of the basic fundamental human rights ? |
| 8 | These Accounts are drawn up for a period of 52 weeks ended on 27th March 1993 and the comparative figures stated are in respect of a period of 52 weeks ended on 28th March 1992 . |
| 9 | The refurbishment scheme ‘ A Good Place to Live ’ will be carried out over a period of five years . |
| 10 | it is n't necessary , well it is the same as saying it is n't true , it is n't necessary er because this will be built up over a period and it will be for er the Government in all the normal ways in the public expenditure round to decide how much goes into the passenger franchises and through that therefore into the Briti the Rail Track investment . |
| 11 | In other cases , a partner 's contribution may be agreed to be collected in over a period of years out of his profit share . |
| 12 | A client is not easily detached from a solicitor who has been handling his affairs over a period of years , but a comparatively mild solicitation may deprive an insurance broker of valuable business which otherwise might safely be reckoned on for a period . |
| 13 | After at least 3 weeks the intervention programme should stop and the baselines be measured again for a period of one week . |
| 14 | Academic basics can be drummed into a reasonably receptive dealer through the BIDS or Stock Exchange courses , but the practical market know-how that was most needed could be grasped only over a period . |
| 15 | Any new planting was designed to be phased in over a period of years , planting schemes having to take account of the need to create a distinctive landscape for the immediate future as well as for the long term . |
| 16 | This will be cut back over a period of time . |
| 17 | The installation of pre-payment meters is one reason why the number of disconnections has fallen , but more important is the fact that the regional electricity companies , under the terms of their licence , have to approve a code of conduct with the Office of Electricity Regulation and must offer customers who are in genuine difficulties a payment plan so that debt can be paid off over a period . |
| 18 | The smear may have been taken too near a period . |
| 19 | Twenty , 50 or 100 mg were infused intravenously over a period of 90 minutes . |
| 20 | Eight patients of group 1 and seven patients of group 2 were followed up for a period of >3 years ( mean follow up 47 ( range 37–60 ) months for both groups ) . |
| 21 | I understand that all the counterfoils and voting slips cast are kept securely for a period after an election until they are eventually destroyed . |
| 22 | If this is carried out after a period of exercise your dog may readily remain in this position since it may be relatively tired . |
| 23 | Another proof is taken and so the print is built up over a period of time . |
| 24 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 25 | Powder coatings , because they require no solvents , are environmentally friendly products whose market share is growing even in a period of overall slack demand . |
| 26 | This period of the second industrial revolution is marked especially as a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization . |
| 27 | Does it matter , though , for literary criticism whether the poetry was formed out of a period of rebellion or revolution ? |
| 28 | The solution was to add a form of the hormone progesterone so that the lining was shed not as a period but as an artificial withdrawal bleed . |
| 29 | Much of the distribution of population was built up in a period when British industry enjoyed competitive supremacy in international trade . |
| 30 | He was very soon found to be a satisfactory workman , and was engaged initially for a period of 2 years . |