Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme takes advantage of the extremely long prepatent period which allows a single breeding cycle by the gilts to be completed before egg-laying begins and so progressively eliminates infection . |
| 2 | In we were fortunate in that the time of the introduction of L M S coincided with the all too brief period when this group was in control of the Council and as the window of opportunity opened to get off to a flying start |
| 3 | Rostov stopped , aware that he had been indulging his capacity for mental arithmetic for easily twice that period of time . |
| 4 | The identifying element is that instalments are collected on the doorstep , and the agreements themselves are , in instalment credit terms , for relatively small amounts ( typically £150 ) repaid over relatively short period ( typically 26 weeks ) . |
| 5 | There followed a rather more conventional period where his activities seem to have differed little from the other young gentlemen of his day ; he studied scientific works on medicine and the natural sciences and pursued a particular interest in taking thermometer readings under varying conditions , including some from the craters of Italian volcanoes . |
| 6 | We have also used a more leisurely 3-month period for trainees at the beginning of their professional careers . |
| 7 | The difference , however , is that stags are vastly more successful during their usually very brief period when they 're controlling a harem of hinds . |
| 8 | The latest and earliest dates for frost are about 1st April and 1st December respectively in the Uists , giving a particularly long frost-free period , matched in Britain only in the southern Inner Hebrides and in the Scilly and Channel Isles ( Green 1964 ) . |
| 9 | It has the rather unusually long period of 547 days . |
| 10 | But it is equally true that there is no way of foreseeing the health status of the very elderly of 2010 or 2022 ; people grown up in the historically exceptionally prosperous period since World War Two may have very different health expectations than those currently aged over 75 who were born before 1911 in a very different environment from the present . |
| 11 | Lynne Segal 's previous Virago book Is the Future Female ? was a spirited discussion of the nature and function of ‘ femininities ’ , especially in recent decades ; published in 1987 , at the most politically depressing period of Thatcherism when the socialist-feminist vision seemed a distant memory or hopeless pipedream , Segal defended her optimism about women 's astonishing progress since the 1960s , and about the fracturing of gender identities which she saw as irreversible . |
| 12 | Very vigorous and floriferous , with a very long flowering period . |
| 13 | There has been a lot of work — both recently and in different traditions over a very long historical period — on how sentences are put together . |
| 14 | So if we hear any screeching noises or bells , which er do n't turn off after a very very short period of time , we are to er make our way in an orderly fashion to the er base of the staircase of the fire escape , following the fire escape er signs . |