Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a period " in BNC.

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1 Erm , resolution that Synod appoints Jo , John as Synod clerk for a period of up to three years to commence at a date mutually convenient to him and the present Synod clerk .
2 A growing number of the University 's courses provide an opportunity for a period of study in another country of the European Community .
3 JEB Fasteners had purchased all the shares in a private company having relied on its accounts for a period of about a year since incorporation .
4 The Bio-Medical Care Clinic is conducting a clinical study on the AIDS Virus using a safe , non-toxic energy and homeopathic formula , we are seeking the co-operation of Candidates to take part for a period of 21 days .
5 That the document containing the statement was produced by the computer during a period over which the computer was used regularly to store or process information for the purposes of any activity regularly carried on over that period , whether for profit or not , by any body , whether corporate or not , or by any individual ;
6 For example , a company 's budget will normally detail a sales budget for a period whilst the published accounts will show sales for the year .
7 The statement , signed P. O'Neill , Dublin , said : ‘ Volunteers of the IRA across the six counties will temporarily suspend hostile military operations for a period of 72 hours . ’
8 Records of public weighings must be retained for inspection for a period of at least two years .
9 The work has led to the development of a conceptual framework for a period which is both a phase and a process .
10 Work will be carried out relaying pavings in Library Square from Monday 23 March for a period of approximately four weeks .
11 She may be able to work different hours for a period of time while her burden is shared by another member of the family or a neighbour .
12 Moreover , an ant under the sway of a dope-peddling caterpillar eventually enters a state called ‘ binding ’ , in which it becomes inseparable from its caterpillar for a period of many days .
13 While the milk from such farms was declared unfit for sale , farmers were also prevented in most cases from selling their cattle for slaughter for a period of several months .
14 It became conventionally acceptable to bemoan the difficulties involved in living a cultivated existence during a period of poverty and dislocation , often expressed in terms of the inevitability of failure , the absurdity of effort , and the necessity of resignation .
15 Scotch whisky must be matured in oak casks for a period of not less than three years .
16 Throwing Muses are one of a handful of groups who write about adolescence as a period of maladjustment and withdrawal , who resist the now-pop version of youth as healthy , extrovert , unproblematic hedonism .
17 He regarded adolescence as a period of sexual apprenticeship .
18 As well as establishing a nominated Senate and a Legislature elected by universal male suffrage , it gave the presidency to Louis-Napoleon for a period of ten years .
19 The National House Building Council ( NHBC ) , which guarantees the structure of most new houses for a period of 10 years and issues detailed technical instructions for the design and construction of dwellings , claimed that the ‘ World in Action ’ programme was ‘ alarmist ’ .
20 Marshall ( 1974 ) , for instance , insists on the necessity for a period of " scrambling " ( others call it " gestation " ) between the experience or stimulus and the writing .
21 Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association .
22 Every Buddhist boy became a monk for a period , it might be for a lent , or a year or two , it might continue for a lifetime or be as short as a week .
23 This method — removing an aggressive nursery school child from play for a period of one minute — was compared by researchers with a scolding and orders not to hit and with a further method of distracting ( i.e. redirecting ) him to other play .
24 Miyazawa 's recent calls for a period of renewed economic growth in Japan and for a cut in Japanese interest rates ( implying a weakening of the yen and a growth in the trade surplus ) were also received with concern in the USA .
25 One organization had responded to such a situation by issuing fixed-term contracts for a period equivalent to its minimum planned needs and then retaining the workers concerned on one week 's notice , with no obligation to negotiate their dismissal with the trade unions if their services were still required thereafter .
26 Employees who are redeployed to posts outwith their recognised employment field will be given priority consideration for any subsequent vacancy which arises in that field for a period of one year following the date of redeployment .
27 ‘ This is to certify that Color Serjeant William Nicholl served in the 8th ( or The King 's ) Regiment of Foot for a period of Twenty One Years , during which time he has invariably conducted himself as an honest , trustworthy , sober man — Given under my hand at Plymouth , This 4th day of August 1825 , J. Duffy Lf Col Commg 8th or King 's Reg . ’
28 They 'll look back on that opening forty minutes as a period of massively missed opportunity .
29 Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship .
30 FinallyJanet Seligman after a period working with an antiquarian bookseller joined Sotheby & co as cataloguer of rare books and manuscripts .
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