Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] a period of " in BNC.
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1 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
2 | And eventually after a period of time that ins outer insulation will wear down , it will fray and it will break and it will expose the live and the neutral wires until , unfortunately sometimes , it will be a little bit too late . |
3 | However , fearing that the UN force would legitimize the loss of its territory to Serbia , Croatia also continued to insist that the force should be deployed only on the 560-km front lines and only for a period of six months . |
4 | It is much better to build up endurance levels gradually and gently over a period of weeks and months . |
5 | A typical building of 10 storeys will sway back and forth in a period of 1 second , giving it a natural frequency of 1 cycle per second or 1 hertz . |