Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] period [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steers ( 1953 ) has quoted examples from the east coast : in Holderness in a thirty-seven year period towards the end of the last century the average loss from the coast was a strip 65 m ( 215 ft ) wide , or an average annual loss of about 1.75 m ( 6 ft ) , while the district suffering the most severe erosion lost 82 m ( 273 ft ) in the same period . |
| 2 | Yes , we are the Tourist Boards , the National Tourist Boards which include Scotland and Ireland ( northern Ireland ) and Wales have combined together , and we are going to combine together to produce a high profile advertising and marketing campaign to encourage millions of holidaymakers to make nineteen ninety one the summer to explore Britain erm and in a concentrated peak period from the twenty third of March to the twenty eighth of April over eighty five per cent of the U K's adult population will be continuously exposed to the message ‘ Britain 's Great ’ , and I think they will hear it on radio , they will see it on T V , there will large colour supplements and four page advertisements in every popular national newspaper from the Sunday Times to the Sun . |
| 3 | Similarly , deliberately walk slowly and set yourself a specific time period for a relaxing lunch-break . |
| 4 | A CD is a negotiable bearer instrument issued by a bank which certifies that a stated sum has been deposited for a specific time period at a particular interest rate . |
| 5 | An announcement in May confirming the selection of Glasgow removed earlier uncertainty , although final confirmation has to wait for a further consultation period until the end of June . |
| 6 | Example B : A single postgraduate student , not from a hot country , should allow approximately £4,600 in living costs for a nine-month study period at the University of Edinburgh if accommodated in the private sector . |
| 7 | The aim of this study was to examine the pattern of acquisition of H pylori infection over a 21 year period in a group of 141 adults who had blood samples and serum stored in 1969 , 1978 , and 1990 . |
| 8 | By measuring H pylori antibody titres in serum samples collected and stored between 1969 and 1990 , we aimed at describing the pattern of acquisition of H pylori infection over a 21 year period in an adult population and thereby to determine the explanation for the higher prevalence of H pylori antibody with increasing age found in Western society . |
| 9 | In 1985 , the Industry and Employment Committee committed funds over a three year period for an initiative in New Technology . |
| 10 | A Washington Post report of Oct. 9 , 1989 , quoted US administration officials as saying that a decision had been made during an unusually secretive policy review that the USA would continue to produce chemical weapons over a 10-year phaseout period after the conclusion of an international treaty to ban the weapons ( see negotiations above ) . |
| 11 | After a 15-day consultation period with the commission and Denmark ends on 3 April , if Denmark continues to broadcast , the Government can issue an order making advertising and decoding equipment a criminal offence . |
| 12 | This was partially accomplished at seven in the morning when the girls ran three times round the school grounds , unless a particularly heavy snowfall made running utterly impossible ; and again in a physical education period in the afternoons . |
| 13 | The plan envisaged realising the desired network over a ten year period at a projected cost of 10 million guilders with a committed programme of annual subsidy from central government . |
| 14 | Judged by these reminiscences , recorded over a five year period in the mid-1970s by a respected Austrian journalist , Freud 's anxieties on that score were somewhat excessive , to put it mildly . |
| 15 | Observations from the Earth of the east-west motion of small features in the Jovian clouds led some time ago to a sidereal rotation period for the equatorial region of 9h 50m 30.003s , and 9h 55m 40.632s for the rest of Jupiter . |
| 16 | The crime bill was opposed largely because it sought to enact a five-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns , while the education legislation , which aimed at upgrading the country 's schools , was opposed by Republicans following a congressional decision to remove an administration proposal to provide government vouchers to assist parents in sending their children to private schools . |
| 17 | The potential differences across three pairs of Ag/AgCl electrodes matched for impedance and placed as shown in Figure 1 were measured for a one hour period after an overnight fast ( or a fast of at least four hours in the smallest infants ) . |
| 18 | It might reasonably be expected that a child placed in a special class would make more progress after the placement than during a comparable time period before the placement . |
| 19 | This reading skills course was developed over a four year period at the Faculty of Political Science in Bologna , Italy . |
| 20 | The Bureau was established at the University of Warwick on 1 September 1983 with a contract for a four year period in the first instance . |
| 21 | This study was designed to compare the efficacy and safety of oral fluticasone propionate with prednisolone over a four week period in the treatment of active colitis . |
| 22 | The process of intervention will be studied over a four month period from the time of first referral . |
| 23 | The system is best at coping with ad hoc requests and these are usually processed within a 24 hour period at the maximum , usually a much shorter period . |