Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note : Where a residential period forms part of a course a higher fee will be charged . |
| 2 | According to the LFS code book , temporary jobs in the first category can include jobs the termination of which " is fixed for , by example , reaching a certain date or completing an assignment , or by return of an employee who has been temporarily replaced " ( our italics ) i.e. jobs that could fit equally well into the second category whilst jobs in the second category are taken to include those with " a work contract for a specific task or a fixed period of time " ( our italics ) i.e jobs that could fit equally well into the first category . |
| 3 | And the outcome of the general election , due next year , would seem to be either a hopelessly splintered parliament or a second period of ‘ co-habitation ’ between a Socialist president and a conservative prime minister . |
| 4 | Float ( i.e. the lapse of time between the end of a work element and the following dependent work element ) or a programmed period of unproductive time within a work element has to be recognized in both the tender and subsequent programmes . |
| 5 | If no play was possible or a prescribed period was lost this premium payment would entitle the holder to get his money back . |
| 6 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 7 | Although a short period of unemployment may be unwelcome and will certainly cause hardship , it is not necessarily disastrous . |
| 8 | It must not be forgotten , however , that although a particular period may contain a low proportion of defective items , if publications from that period are in great demand , a larger number of defective items from that period may be issued ( and may suffer further damage ) than from a less popular period , even if the latter contains a higher proportion of items in need of repair . |
| 9 | The animated debate amongst students and intellectuals before the Seventh National People 's Congress in April indicated that the anti-bourgeois campaign of 1987 was over and that a renewed period of liberalisation was under way . |
| 10 | King Hussein , who had resisted calls from Moslem Brotherhood members of parliament and leftists to boycott the conference , said in an emotional speech on Oct. 12 at a conference of 2,500 elected officials in Amman that he had been assured by the USA that it would " do its utmost " to see that a transitional period of Palestinian " autonomy " in the occupied territories would be negotiated within a year of the conference opening , and announced Jordan 's unconditional acceptance of US terms for the proposed Middle East peace conference . |
| 11 | But shortly before the general election , local authorities throughout Britain were told they did not have to go ahead and that a second period of consultation was to be held . |
| 12 | It pointed out that a prolonged period of profits growth at ISC had ended because of insistence by the auditors that ISC adopt more conservative accounting policies on long term contracts . |
| 13 | He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary , and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous , since it has been honoured only in the breach . |
| 14 | It sought a socialist majority in its own right , but most of its leaders believed that a long period of education and propaganda would be necessary before that majority could be secured . |
| 15 | Nevertheless we accept that a new period in world communications did begin some time in the 1970S — involving technology , markets and policies . |
| 16 | It was argued that a lengthy period within a mental hospital could itself produce symptoms of social disorientation , apathy , loss of initiative and so on , which amounted to institutional neurosis , an illness that could persist long after the original illness had cleared up . |
| 17 | The imperative for a writer of a chronological survey is that a defined period of time is covered ; this may be linked with a theme , such as the history of styles in Gombrich 's case , but it is unlikely to be linked solely with a spotlight on quality . |
| 18 | It will all come right , now that a different period of history has begun . |
| 19 | The Government 's patients charter suggests that a waiting period of two years is a realistic target , beyond which no individual should have to wait . |
| 20 | It recognized that a longer period of detention might also be required in a ‘ small minority ’ of cases concerned with ‘ grave offences ’ . |
| 21 | His figure , which was based on a tally kept by victim support groups , was criticized by other experts , who argued that a longer period would have to elapse before such a large number of people could develop cancer . |
| 22 | It was dismissed by other experts , however , who argued that a longer period would have to elapse before sufficient people developed cancer . |
| 23 | yeah but he wondered if just that a short period of time could just get your Lordship a question of |
| 24 | Unlike in certain other European countries , British labour law sets no maximum duration to a temporary employment relationship , whereby all persons employed for longer than a certain period of time automatically have permanent status . |
| 25 | So we need a ‘ transactional model ’ rather than a critical period model if we are to understand the course of child development — transactional in the sense that we recognize the constant and progressive mutual modifications of parent and child at all stages of growth . |
| 26 | The 1970 Act required the EPA to prescribe NAAQSs which were not to be exceeded in any region more than one day per year , or during more than a limited period within that day ( table 8.1 ) . |
| 27 | All are influenced by a strongly seasonal climate with abundant rainfall during the summer months and a dry period of between 4 and 8 months . |
| 28 | On Sundays there were two full-length chapel services , walks outside the school grounds , an hour of silent reading , and a similar period for letter-writing and mending clothes . |
| 29 | Let us have in mind , only slightly less imprecisely , a period of light in London and thereabouts , that one I now call yesterday , and a following period of darkness , last night . |
| 30 | It was felt that if people managed to overcome the above obstacles , a support programme and a transitionary period are necessary to make entering employment successful . |