Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenneth Clarke , when Home Secretary , announced the establishment of secure training centres where young people aged up to fifteen years could be sentenced for a period of up to two years . |
| 2 | It was also true that the reformers were more interested in what practical achievements could be made by a period of liberalisation . |
| 3 | Councillor said that that that that hundred and thirty million could be funded over a period of ten years , at thirteen million pound a year . |
| 4 | In March of the following year Mr Henderson was appointed treasurer of the Building Fund and the cost of the building scheme was estimated at £18,000 a sum which could be met over a period of 7 years . |
| 5 | Elizabethan England could be portrayed as a period before emigration to the American colonies began , before the ruptures between a British and American way of life existed . |
| 6 | Alternatively a range of different video materials could be used in a period earmarked for video . |