Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , resolution that Synod appoints Jo , John as Synod clerk for a period of up to three years to commence at a date mutually convenient to him and the present Synod clerk . |
| 2 | A growing number of the University 's courses provide an opportunity for a period of study in another country of the European Community . |
| 3 | The Bio-Medical Care Clinic is conducting a clinical study on the AIDS Virus using a safe , non-toxic energy and homeopathic formula , we are seeking the co-operation of Candidates to take part for a period of 21 days . |
| 4 | That the document containing the statement was produced by the computer during a period over which the computer was used regularly to store or process information for the purposes of any activity regularly carried on over that period , whether for profit or not , by any body , whether corporate or not , or by any individual ; |
| 5 | For example , a company 's budget will normally detail a sales budget for a period whilst the published accounts will show sales for the year . |
| 6 | Records of public weighings must be retained for inspection for a period of at least two years . |
| 7 | The work has led to the development of a conceptual framework for a period which is both a phase and a process . |
| 8 | Moreover , an ant under the sway of a dope-peddling caterpillar eventually enters a state called ‘ binding ’ , in which it becomes inseparable from its caterpillar for a period of many days . |
| 9 | While the milk from such farms was declared unfit for sale , farmers were also prevented in most cases from selling their cattle for slaughter for a period of several months . |
| 10 | It became conventionally acceptable to bemoan the difficulties involved in living a cultivated existence during a period of poverty and dislocation , often expressed in terms of the inevitability of failure , the absurdity of effort , and the necessity of resignation . |
| 11 | Throwing Muses are one of a handful of groups who write about adolescence as a period of maladjustment and withdrawal , who resist the now-pop version of youth as healthy , extrovert , unproblematic hedonism . |
| 12 | He regarded adolescence as a period of sexual apprenticeship . |
| 13 | Marshall ( 1974 ) , for instance , insists on the necessity for a period of " scrambling " ( others call it " gestation " ) between the experience or stimulus and the writing . |
| 14 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 15 | Every Buddhist boy became a monk for a period , it might be for a lent , or a year or two , it might continue for a lifetime or be as short as a week . |
| 16 | This method — removing an aggressive nursery school child from play for a period of one minute — was compared by researchers with a scolding and orders not to hit and with a further method of distracting ( i.e. redirecting ) him to other play . |
| 17 | Employees who are redeployed to posts outwith their recognised employment field will be given priority consideration for any subsequent vacancy which arises in that field for a period of one year following the date of redeployment . |
| 18 | ‘ This is to certify that Color Serjeant William Nicholl served in the 8th ( or The King 's ) Regiment of Foot for a period of Twenty One Years , during which time he has invariably conducted himself as an honest , trustworthy , sober man — Given under my hand at Plymouth , This 4th day of August 1825 , J. Duffy Lf Col Commg 8th or King 's Reg . ’ |
| 19 | The third pattern is the post-experience one in which students come to theoretical or systematic study of the field after a period of practice . |
| 20 | Recent studies from the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) have now seen evidence of the migration of dioxins from chlorine bleached milk cartons into milk after a period of storage . |
| 21 | I 've got the price of that product up and also get him his reduction after a period of time . |
| 22 | I the defendant Doctor David against a decision of the taxing master , taxing master of right , er given on the thirteenth of August nineteen ninety three , whereby the taxing master disallowed interest on plaintiff 's bill of the cost in the action for a period from the first of November nineteen ninety one to the twenty seventh of May nineteen ninety three , the defendant in his notice of appeal , claims that the taxing master should have disallowed interest for a longer period , in addition to the period he actually al disallowed int namely there should be additional disallowance for the period from the twenty forth of April nineteen ninety one to the thirty first of October nineteen ninety one or for such other periods as the court deems just . |
| 23 | You will note that they are initially indicating that you should hold some of the Flybynight stock for a period of two years . |
| 24 | In view of the high incidence of these arrangements in Leeds , and their adoption and dissemination during a period when the massive resourcing of PNP appeared to have little impact on reading test scores , it might be worth carefully pondering HMI 's finding , referred to towards the end of the previous chapter , that |
| 25 | To find employment my father moved to Peterborough and although I have since lived at Rathcoole for a period I have found my childhood friends difficult to trace . |
| 26 | The PhD degree involves the candidate in supervised research for a period usually of 36 months full-time , or 48 months part-time . |
| 27 | Vibration tests on a suitable vibrator for a period of some hours should be carried out in appropriate instances . |
| 28 | Eight mother-infant dyads are participating in the study for a period of two years , starting when the infants are six months old . |
| 29 | This could , depending on the gravity of the matter , suspend the individual from practice for a period of time or even permanently . |
| 30 | be required to work in the industry for a period in order to improve his management competences before undertaking a project on a new topic area . |