Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] period for " in BNC.
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1 | The most popular period for BES investment occurs in the last three months of the tax year as investors begin to think about reducing tax liabilities ; the early autumn sees a second surge as investors can claim up to half the tax relief for the previous year on investments made before 6 October ( subject to a maximum of £5,000 ) . |
2 | The 1980s were in fact an extremely busy period for tanker owners — partly because of the boom in orthodox calls for shipping , partly because of the development of unusual kinds of employment . |
3 | It should be noted , though , that as yet there has not been a long enough period for what is banal and insubstantial to be dropped in favour of what is an enduring renewal of the tradition . |
4 | Is not that a long enough period for miners to be working down the pit ? |
5 | Ages 20 to 34 years represent the most favourable period for childbearing ; ages 20 to 29 are the safest . |
6 | LABOUR has begun its most intensive period for reselection . |
7 | Nearly 600 years after the first building it was to suffer a most ignoble period for the old building , within whose walls had been seen some of the highest in the land , was to become a Workhouse . |
8 | Payback on the investment is on target at four-and-a-half years for the Derwent and an even shorter period for the Victoria . |
9 | We have also used a more leisurely 3-month period for trainees at the beginning of their professional careers . |
10 | Only one or two mosaics can be assigned , tenuously , to a period after c.350 , although the original dates for the Lydney mosaics ( Wheeler 1936 , 65 ) , if even approximately correct , could suggest a relatively late period for mosaics in the region which share the essentials of the arrangement of the pavement of room XVIII . |
11 | Finally , evidence from what was arguably the most traumatic period for capitalism , the post-1929 Depression in the United States , does not lend support to the real-balance hypothesis : ‘ For the 1929–32 period as a whole there was an increase in real balances of 42 per cent , and a decrease in real income of 40 per cent ’ ( Patinkin , 1951 ) . |
12 | ‘ That is the most traumatic period for both the children and their parents , as the children can often be subjected to jibes and name-calling , ’ Dr Allen added . |
13 | The war-time had been an unexpectedly busy period for Blackpool , with the resorts on the south and east coasts closed to visitors . |
14 | Well , the tide has turned and we 're now viewing the fruits of the UK 's most productive period for some time . |
15 | I do think there are problems and difficulties , I do n't think it will be easy , not least because we do n't have a shared morality and a shared consensus , on the objectives for the voluntary sector , but it is a set of concerns which we must address , er , and I believe that if , if I 've done nothing else today , I 've kicked off a debate , or I 've contributed to a debate which was already rolling , erm , and that we must address those difficulties , and try and find ways through them , because there are opportunities as well as threats in the current situation and I believe we have to look at all of those er , so that we can move into the nineteen nineties which I believe will be a very exciting period for the voluntary sector , and one which the voluntary sector should er , see as exciting , grab the opportunities and move forward . |
16 | Because the 1980s in the UK was a very favourable period for customers , UK retailers did n't see those developments : most of them spent the 1980s massaging their profits and margins , which they euphemistically called ‘ adding value ’ ’ . |
17 | Incongruously , this was also a very happy period for me in many ways . |
18 | But changing the corporate culture is a very long term solution ( up to ten years ) and can be a very difficult period for all involved . |