Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experiment 2 — A Trial over a Long Period |
| 2 | er when Pearl , my other daughter came over Christmas , course Andrea was more or less still going through a bit of a rough period with between her grandfather and her , you know ? |
| 3 | As we suggested in the introduction , " temporary workers are normally thought of as those who are not engaged on indefinite contract of employment , and the obvious opposite of an indefinite contract of employment is a contract for a fixed period of time . |
| 4 | In fact it is a remnant of a disastrous period in the history of European felines . |
| 5 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 6 | As illustrated in Figure 3. 1 , the total number of heroin users in a community during a one-year period ( annual prevalence ) is analogous to the level of water in a sink . |
| 7 | In sixth form days , he and John Irwin actually invented a joke in a free period ( ‘ I ca n't remember how it went now , something involving a foreskin , no doubt ’ ) . |
| 8 | Traded options can be used to secure a predetermined price for a security within a given period in the anticipation of a certain cash inflow . |
| 9 | When some sociologists talk of the ‘ socialization function of the family ’ , therefore , they are not talking of a family deliberately and consciously performing a function assigned to it from outside by ‘ society ’ , but rather of a more subtle process that arises out of the facts of being married , of sharing a residence over a long period of time , and of parenthood . |
| 10 | Brough [ 1991 ] Crim.L.R. 522 the C.P.S. delayed bringing a charge for a short period so that B was deprived of the possibility of trial in the juvenile court . |
| 11 | Thus a feasible injection schedule for animals held in a room with a light period from 0800 h to 2000 h would be PMSG between 1500 and 1600 h and hCG 46 h later between 1300 and 1400 h . |
| 12 | Where a surgeon has been brought in ‘ at the last minute ’ to prepare a Medical Report then his opinion and Report can always be made the subject of valid criticism in the event of being compared with the Report and opinion of a surgeon who has consistently treated and/or prepared Reports on a claimant over a lengthy period of time . |
| 13 | Birmingham Open Christmas provides three cooked meals a day over a four-day period , including a daily roast . |
| 14 | Each WRVS delivery round serves up to 40 people a day over a two-hour period around lunch time . |
| 15 | The law relating to covenants is quite complex but basically a covenant is a legally-binding document by which you transfer some of your income to a charity for a stated period . |
| 16 | It literally , it literally means produce the body only you ca n't simply , well the difference between a constitutional system and er an arbitrary government is that in arbitrary governments people get arrested and disappear , locked up , throw away the key and worry about it the next generation or after the next er military coup or whatever but in a constitutional government there have to be procedures and one of the safeguards of individual liberty is that if you 're ever arrested and detained by law enforcement agencies you have to be produced before a court within a specified period and charged with something . |
| 17 | ( b ) Counternotices Where the initiator of the review is required to specify the proposed new rent it is sometimes provided that the figure so specified shall be the new rent unless the other party serves a counternotice within a given period . |
| 18 | Many of the examples that we have given throughout this material have shown such a trend for a short period . |
| 19 | An extra benefit of Contran is that it should eliminate the infuriating and potentially dangerous situation when a stuck PTT switch or mike relay in one aircraft blocks a frequency for a protracted period . |
| 20 | The aim would be to have covered every area of the country where interest was shown in a union within a ten-year period . |
| 21 | How can a beam of electrons that is made to wiggle in a plane with a spatial period of a few centimetres possible produce electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of a few microns ? |
| 22 | However , just as at a certain place on the earth 's surface we can still call ‘ down' ’ the direction towards the centre of the earth , so a living organism that finds itself in such a world at a certain period of time can define the ‘ direction ’ of time as going from the less probable state to the more probable ( the former will be the ‘ Past' ’ and the latter the ‘ Future' ’ ) and by virtue of the definition he will find that his own small region , isolated from the rest of the universe , is ‘ initially' ’ always in an improbable state . |
| 23 | A certificate of deposit ( CD ) states that a deposit has been made with a bank for a fixed period of time at the end of which it will be repaid with interest . |
| 24 | The advantage to the bank is that it has the use of a deposit for a fixed period , but , because of the flexibility given to the lender , at a slightly lower price than it would have had to pay for a normal time deposit . |
| 25 | However the total annual cost of the project at that time , extrapolating from the months when it was operating at capacity to produce a cost for a 12-month period , would have been £42,000 in Newham and £25,680 in Ipswich ( excluding the cost of the research ) ; see Table 6.6 . |
| 26 | Then he sells off ‘ time shares ’ , which is the right to occupy a unit for a fixed period every year . |
| 27 | We have had a problem for a long period of time now on high conductivity . |
| 28 | They tend to avoid US-style controls for damping sudden speculative movements by closing down a market for a particular period . |
| 29 | Affected fish are dipped in such a solution for a short period and then can be safely returned to the pool . |
| 30 | They had a mortgage with the Woolwich and an endowment for a fixed period of twenty five years |