Example sentences of "[prep] a brief period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a brief period during which a registered trade union was a corporate body under the Act of 1971 , the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 restored the immunity , though liability was imposed ( where there was no trade dispute ) for certain torts causing personal injury or breaches of duty connected with the union 's property . |
| 2 | Certainly , after a brief period of novelty , the hapless , aggrieved house-husband threatens to become as rigid and unexamined a comic invention as the grotesquely intrusive mother-in-law once was . |
| 3 | After a brief period of uncertainty , it is now clear that common-law recklessness , not Caldwell recklessness , is the relevant test . |
| 4 | After a brief period of independence in the second half of the eleventh century — an independence recognised by Pope Gregory VII in 1077 — Zeta was eclipsed by a new Serbian principality , known as Raška , situated in the wild mountainous districts of southern Serbia , which later became known as the Sandžak of Novi Pazar . |
| 5 | After a brief period at home , he and Leopold returned in August to Milan , where Wolfgang finished the serenata Ascanio in Alba . |
| 6 | Oddsson , 43 , had been elected as IP chair on March 10 , 1991 , after a brief period as deputy leader . |
| 7 | In contrast with the previous case , where it was thought necessary to stop medication at the beginning of treatment , this woman clearly benefited from the introduction of a hypnotic for a brief period of time . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , there is sometimes resistance among staff on inpatient units to admitting patients who may not be suffering from psychiatric illness , but who for a brief period of time need to hand over responsibility for their well-being to the inpatient clinical team . |
| 9 | An agreed formula provided for a brief period of UN control before Indonesia moved in , early in 1963 . |
| 10 | He was a guy who could be something for a brief period of time and then he vanished like the spirit he was impersonating . |
| 11 | For a brief period of one year , 1977-1978 , the Labour government of James Callaghan entered into a Pact with the Liberal parliamentary party : in return for voting support in the House of Commons ( necessary to maintain its majority ) , the government modified certain policies of its own and introduced certain measures favored by the Liberals . |
| 12 | After the war , many of the type served for a brief period with RCN reservist units until they were all struck off charge in 1947 . |
| 13 | This situation has not led to a decline in enrolments : except for a brief period at the beginning of the crisis , the demand for education has been sustained . |
| 14 | It seems , therefore , that the Burgundians should be seen as a largely catholic people , but that for a brief period under Gundobad they had an arian Church . |
| 15 | Once the eggs have hatched the tiny fry are without parental care and become free swimming for a brief period during which time they must find their own host anemone . |
| 16 | However , this outlay can easily be offset by letting the apartment out for a brief period during the peak season . |
| 17 | He retired from medicine in 1930 , although for a brief period during World War II he acted as locum for a Cambridge doctor who had joined up . |
| 18 | By sheer grace God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world … . |
| 19 | For a brief period in the province 's history , its affairs became entwined in the broader struggles for the monarchy . |
| 20 | The excavations , a joint venture between British and Italian authorities ( Provincia d'Isernia ) and directed for the last twelve years by the School 's director , Dr Richard Hodges , have shown that for a brief period in the early ninth century San Vincenzo was an exceptional place with far-flung connections . |
| 21 | For a brief period in the Spring of 1987 , London was the only English metropolitan centre with more than one evening daily paper — it had three — having endured five years when only one , the Standard , was published . |
| 22 | He has been Professor of Architecture at the University of Belgrade , and was also for a brief period in the early 1980s the Mayor of the city . |
| 23 | Britain firmly and — except for a brief period in March 1951 — consistently advocated the conclusion of an early peace treaty . |
| 24 | This is apparent in the emergence of the physical disk of the sun as Aten , first named as such in the Middle Kingdom , to the status of a great god for a brief period in the Eighteenth Dynasty . |
| 25 | Except for a brief period in September and October when prices threatened to fall to below $400 , platinum remained close to $500 an ounce for much of the year . |
| 26 | Except for a brief period in August , rubber prices were in decline despite falling stocks and low output in Malaysia . |
| 27 | For a brief period after his accession Henry VII allowed the old Exchequer system to revive ; but from about 1493 he reverted to the methods of his immediate predecessors . |
| 28 | These books are both related to the exhibition On The Passage of a Few People Through a Brief Period of Time presented at the Musée national d'art moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou , the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London , and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston , Massachusetts during 1989 — 90 . |
| 29 | He went through a brief period of chatting to the customers down at the bank about how he had seen someone come back from the dead . |
| 30 | After working as house surgeon to Jones Quain [ q.v. ] at University College Hospital , he became assistant medical officer at Wakefield Asylum ( 1857–8 ) , before a brief period at Brentwood Asylum as assistant MO , during which he was elected a member of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane ( later the Medico-Psychological Association ) in July 1858 . |