Example sentences of "[prep] a period [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Lastly the English school : Two of our number have died : Cathleen O'Connor ( Mrs Epstein ) and Margaret Partington who , after a period teaching and another working as copywriter with Kodak in Harrow while tending her ailing parents , worked for many years on the Encyclopedia Britannica , becoming Classification Editor for Literature and Music .
2 It could be the stage setting of a period play , she thought , but it was n't .
3 The availability of a period pub , particularly one representing the highly popular 1930s , could create a new market where none existed before .
4 People told me it is like a period pain , and to start with it was very like a period pain .
5 People told me it is like a period pain , and to start with it was very like a period pain .
6 Sir Colin Anderson , patron , collector and for a period Chairman of the Tate Gallery 's trustees , visited this exhibition and noted ‘ flop ’ beside the catalogue entry for Minton 's work .
7 Serjeant was then stricken with severe arthritis and was for a period chair-bound .
8 suggested in Ex parte Benson ( No. 2 ) , The Times , 21 November 1988 , the decision in Handscomb had been that detention for a period equivalent to a determinate sentence of 27 years exceeded by such a wide margin any determinate sentence passed in recent years for the offence of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility , and was thus in the absence of reasons irrational , I would not disagree .
9 One organization had responded to such a situation by issuing fixed-term contracts for a period equivalent to its minimum planned needs and then retaining the workers concerned on one week 's notice , with no obligation to negotiate their dismissal with the trade unions if their services were still required thereafter .
10 He moved from job to job , for a period boxing in a fairground booth and also trying his hand at acting , whilst also posing for Minton in his studio in return for ten shillings a week .
11 Mosley undoubtedly had admirers in important social positions , including for a period Lord Rothermere , and had access to a wide range of the politically influential .
12 The script calls for a period propeller plane that actually works .
13 The company adopts a marginal costing system and treats overheads as a period cost .
14 Both books display Minton 's effervescent gaiety , but , even before his illustrations became overlaid with a period nostalgia an undertow of sadness could be discerned beneath their cheerful manner .
15 For example , West Germany and the Netherlands both have lower female work-force participation than Britain but also have considerably lower fertility ; while Japan , with a period fertility level about the same as Britain 's has a relatively low work-force participation by married women .
16 Change in landscape over a period T = t 2 - t 1 can be measured either by integration of fluxes or by net displacement of a system parameter ( ) .
17 When m = n , all integrals on the right-hand side of equation ( 11.3 ) are zero except that in which the integrand is , and since it follows that for to Multiplication of equation ( 11.1 ) by followed by integration over a period T similarly gives When , all integrals on the right-hand side are zero except that in which the integrand is .
18 The intention here was to allow the interviewer to simulate a conversation and over a period move towards a more symmetrical interactive relationship so that this interviewing style came to resemble participant observation .
19 The employers acknowledged that if over a period profits should rise more than incomes , the balance should be redressed by taxation policy .
20 Better try something else , then ; and here it is , in the shape of the third proposition : ‘ if over a period profits should rise more than incomes , the balance should be redressed by taxation policy ’ .
21 A similar , one day , version is attended by contractors ' staff not subject to a period Contract .
22 This dormer was added to a period property by Priory Loft Conversions
23 the submission of statistics direct to Customs on a period basis rather than by individual movement .
24 From 1 January any UK business that sells goods to another VAT registered person in another country within the EC will have to complete one of these statements on a period basis .
25 Although persuaded to drop this proposal , the brewery redecorated in the most unsympathetic manner , using metallic glazed fabrics and crude reproductions of Morris wallpapers and carpets — destroying any attempt at a period interior ( which the 1960s restoration had , ironically , tried to create ) .
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