Example sentences of "[prep] a period [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly the English school : Two of our number have died : Cathleen O'Connor ( Mrs Epstein ) and Margaret Partington who , after a period teaching and another working as copywriter with Kodak in Harrow while tending her ailing parents , worked for many years on the Encyclopedia Britannica , becoming Classification Editor for Literature and Music . |
| 2 | It could be the stage setting of a period play , she thought , but it was n't . |
| 3 | The availability of a period pub , particularly one representing the highly popular 1930s , could create a new market where none existed before . |
| 4 | People told me it is like a period pain , and to start with it was very like a period pain . |
| 5 | People told me it is like a period pain , and to start with it was very like a period pain . |
| 6 | Sir Colin Anderson , patron , collector and for a period Chairman of the Tate Gallery 's trustees , visited this exhibition and noted ‘ flop ’ beside the catalogue entry for Minton 's work . |
| 7 | Serjeant was then stricken with severe arthritis and was for a period chair-bound . |
| 8 | suggested in Ex parte Benson ( No. 2 ) , The Times , 21 November 1988 , the decision in Handscomb had been that detention for a period equivalent to a determinate sentence of 27 years exceeded by such a wide margin any determinate sentence passed in recent years for the offence of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility , and was thus in the absence of reasons irrational , I would not disagree . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He moved from job to job , for a period boxing in a fairground booth and also trying his hand at acting , whilst also posing for Minton in his studio in return for ten shillings a week . |
| 11 | The script calls for a period propeller plane that actually works . |
| 12 | The company adopts a marginal costing system and treats overheads as a period cost . |
| 13 | Both books display Minton 's effervescent gaiety , but , even before his illustrations became overlaid with a period nostalgia an undertow of sadness could be discerned beneath their cheerful manner . |
| 14 | For example , West Germany and the Netherlands both have lower female work-force participation than Britain but also have considerably lower fertility ; while Japan , with a period fertility level about the same as Britain 's has a relatively low work-force participation by married women . |
| 15 | The intention here was to allow the interviewer to simulate a conversation and over a period move towards a more symmetrical interactive relationship so that this interviewing style came to resemble participant observation . |
| 16 | A similar , one day , version is attended by contractors ' staff not subject to a period Contract . |
| 17 | This dormer was added to a period property by Priory Loft Conversions |
| 18 | the submission of statistics direct to Customs on a period basis rather than by individual movement . |
| 19 | From 1 January any UK business that sells goods to another VAT registered person in another country within the EC will have to complete one of these statements on a period basis . |
| 20 | Although persuaded to drop this proposal , the brewery redecorated in the most unsympathetic manner , using metallic glazed fabrics and crude reproductions of Morris wallpapers and carpets — destroying any attempt at a period interior ( which the 1960s restoration had , ironically , tried to create ) . |