Example sentences of "[adv] [det] period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 some of you are a lot younger than me of course , it could be a lot smaller , but er er showing this to teenagers , if you work out what age a teenager will be in the year twenty forty , they 'll be about er in their mid sixties so this period of time , basically , is the time over which our present er generation of schoolchildren will have their adult life .
2 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 .
3 Is not that a long enough period for miners to be working down the pit ?
4 It is a prospect the Rowes dread and one which adds weight to Jan 's claim that unless something is done to eliminate the badgers carrying TB , there will never be a long enough period between outbreaks in the herd to do any sensible farming .
5 Bureaucrats make bad leaders because they are indoctrinated to accept authority , so any period of their ascendancy produces conservative , unimaginative and unbalanced leadership .
6 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 .
7 In the meantime , the director who would have done it , who is a name director , has asked me to go and work at the RSC because she 's now busy for exactly that period of time .
8 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 .
9 ‘ The proved long-term risks of lung cancer — and the smaller risk of leukaemia , from inhaling it over any period of time — mean it has to be regarded very seriously . ’
10 It is contended that , at least where the interpretation of " the term " includes not only the contractual term but also any period of holding over or extension of the contractual term , this could result in the landlord being entitled to review the rent on the day of the commencement of any period of holding over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 .
11 Example 3:1 Limitation on liability of original tenant ( 1 ) in this clause " the original tenant " means the said … only and this clause applies to any period after the term hereby granted ceases to be vested in the original tenant ( 2 ) if and so often as the tenant fails to pay the rent or any other sum properly due under this lease or commits any breach of covenant known to the landlord then the landlord shall forthwith notify the original tenant of that fact ( 3 ) the landlord shall not be entitled to recover from the original tenant any arrears of rent or other sums payable under this lease where the rent or other sums claimed became due earlier than three months before the original tenant was notified under sub-clause ( 2 ) above ( 4 ) the original tenant shall not be liable for any arrears of rent or other sum falling due after the date upon which this lease is expressed to expire or any breach of covenant committed after that date Example 3:2 Limitation on liability of tenant ( 1 ) In this clause ( a ) " the original tenant " means only ( b ) " the original assignee " means a person to whom the original tenant lawfully assigns this lease ( 2 ) upon a lawful assignment of this lease by the original tenant the original tenant ( a ) shall be released from further personal liability for any breach of any of the tenant 's obligations under this lease occurring after the date of the assignment but ( b ) shall guarantee performance by the original assignee of those obligations until the expiry or other determination of the term or ( if sooner ) a lawful assignment of this lease by the original assignee Example 3:3 Restriction on landlord 's ability to sue original tenant at any time after the lawful assignment of this lease by [ name of original tenant ] the landlord shall not be entitled to enforce against him the tenant 's obligations under this lease unless the landlord shall have first ( 1 ) recovered judgment against all other persons against whom the landlord is or has become entitled to enforce those obligations either as principal or surety and ( 2 ) attempted to levy excution upon such judgment and upon payment by [ name of original tenant ] of any sum due under such judgment the landlord shall assign to him the benefit of it Example 3:4 Definition clause making tenant liable for rent during holding over period " the term " includes not only the term expressed to be granted by this lease but also any period after the date on which the term is expressed to expire during which the tenancy continues under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Example 3:5 Clause making the tenant liable to pay rent and interim rent promptly to pay the rent reserved by this lease without any deduction or set-off and any rent substituted for it either as a result of a rent review under this lease or the agreement or determination of a rent payable by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s24A
12 Has it enough working capital to enable it to wait out this period without becoming insolvent ?
13 Has it enough working capital to enable it to wait out this period without becoming insolvent ?
14 Rostov stopped , aware that he had been indulging his capacity for mental arithmetic for easily twice that period of time .
15 And there , lots of people and and lots of them actually they came from Abbotsbury and that all their kids were doing so well and then this period of a year , nothing !
16 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 .
17 The example serves to show , however , that almost any period in history is open to you if the things that happened in the past set your imagination whirling .
18 Yet this period of life , around the ages of 43–53 , carries problems for both men and women .
19 Nobody would argue that Britons in the decade 1982-1992 enjoyed living standards that 1930s world champions , Benny Lynch and Jackie Brown , would have regarded as being beyond the average working man 's reach , yet this period of comparative prosperity produced 11 British world champions : the greatest number per decade in British boxing history .
20 About 1844 there was yet another period of spiritual prosperity and in one year over 300 people found Christ .
21 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 .
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