Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Commons Employment Committee proposes the establishment of a ‘ decade of retirement ’ between the age of 60 and 70 , which would allow people to choose for themselves when they wished to retire over this period of time . |
| 2 | My own appointment to sort out persistent period pains ended abruptly when I was asked to point to my kidneys . |
| 3 | But such a response implies that next period their stocks of goods will be lower than they feel is optimal , and they will therefore want to build them up again by producing more next period than they otherwise would . |
| 4 | Has it enough working capital to enable it to wait out this period without becoming insolvent ? |
| 5 | Has it enough working capital to enable it to wait out this period without becoming insolvent ? |
| 6 | If this ( expected ) relative price is high then it will give suppliers an incentive to produce and sell more this period and hold the proceeds in monetary form , in anticipation that their real value will increase as the average price level falls next period . |
| 7 | We might just as well ask why , when we try to recall visually some period in the past , we find in our memory just the few meagre arbitrarily chosen set of snapshots that we do find there , the faded poor souvenirs of passionate moments . |
| 8 | Figure 18.1 shows how the total casualties fell over this period even though the number of vehicles on the road was increasing . |
| 9 | one parent families headed by fathers also grew over this period , by 11 per cent . |
| 10 | A further 16,000 houses would be needed for the predicted 40,000 incomers expected to arrive over this period . |
| 11 | for example , a short recall of the original theme ( perhaps using only one sentence ) would be sufficient if we wanted to continue the theme by introducing yet another period of change . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the Report estimated that the proportion of dependents who were elderly would increase over that period from 12 per cent to nearly a third by 1979 . |