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

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1 After a period at the Tramway Museum , it was transferred to a working line in Manchester 's Heaton Park in 1979 , and repainted in full Company livery .
2 His early childhood was spent in Leeds ; after a period at a dame school he went to Leeds Grammar School at the age of ten , leaving in 1867 to become an apprentice with the engineering firm of Carrett & Marshall of Hunslet , Leeds .
3 He was a South African like Albert , but eventually settled in England and after a period at York City became a postman .
4 However , it is not a particularly difficult race and the brindle who made his comeback in the Dundalk ‘ 525 ’ International after a period at stud , looks set to qualify safely .
5 At the same time , the Detention of Terrorists ( Northern Ireland ) Order introduced commissioners with legal training to preside over a Detention Appeal Tribunal to which detainees could apply after a period for a review of the justification for their imprisonment .
6 On the basis of privately commissioned opinion polls showing an increasing majority in favour of some measure of divorce legislation , FitzGerald agreed with his cabinet to proceed with a referendum on whether to change the constitution so as to allow divorce for marriages irretrievably broken down , though only after a period of five years ' actual breakdown and legal separation .
7 After a period of time we will then ask local groups to provide this information .
8 The first try came after a period of sustained pressure , when Mal Meninga had the strength to force over from close range .
9 The Thatcher government , after a period of rapid decline in manufacturing and a sharp rise in unemployment , which reached 3.2 million by mid-1982 , appeared to have conquered many of the major difficulties in the mid-1980s , and there was talk of a ‘ British miracle ’ comparable to those of Germany and Japan .
10 Extract from a letter received from an ex-member of the Womens Royal Air Force after a period of convalescence at Richard Peck House ‘ It was my good fortune to be given a period of convalescence at Richard Peck House after major surgery .
11 After a period of 12–36 months , the last 2–3 weeks of which are spent in a pupal stage near the surface , the grub becomes a fully grown beetle .
12 ‘ For your own sake you should get rid of him — or make him live out , ’ Frank said quietly after a period of silence .
13 They had done so after a period of co-operation and consultation with East Germany which looks in retrospect like a laying of the groundwork for what was to come in both Germanys .
14 The appeal , to be made by the Umalah ( Muslim clergy ) next Friday in Britain 's 1,000 mosques , comes after a period of relative quiet among campaigners and is being interpreted as a shift towards Mr Rushdie 's more vigorous opponents , including Dr Kalim Siddiqui .
15 After a period of slower rise until 10,500 years ago , corresponding to a time known as the Younger Dryas — when ice sheets temporarily advanced again in the Northern hemisphere — a second burst of accelerated sea-level risk took place , at rates similar to the previous acceleration .
16 After a period of time , the milk appears to skin ; this is the cream rising to the surface of the vat .
17 After a period of some 45min , the vat appeared full of blancmange .
18 After a period of exceptionally rapid growth in lending , British banks too have had to make big provisions for bad debts ; defaults are growing faster than during the recession of 1980–81 .
19 According to Freud , this happens after a period of ‘ anaesthesia ’ , in fact , often not until after first coitus .
20 Think about how people look after a period of sickness and diarrhoea .
21 Her husband began to complain of headaches and lethargy and after a period of investigation in hospital it was discovered that he had a malignant cerebral tumour .
22 THE CITY appeared reconciled yesterday to a hung parliament , with share prices , the pound and government bonds all showing modest gains after a period of sustained weakness .
23 Sexual relations between the newcomer and the old man 's daughters are not resented , and after a period of mutual co-existence the young male leads the daughters into a separate existence as a new harem .
24 After a period of disuse , the Carr Tanning Co took over the premises and are still there .
25 My gut , after a period of glorious dependability on a diet of potatoes , was bailing everything out again , spurred on by a meal of Lomo ( pork ) a lo Gordon Blyed from Puno International Restaurant .
26 After a period of some weeks without treatment , the rash and any other manifestations of secondary syphilis will regress and the disease enters the early latent stage .
27 He went back to the ballet , he said , after a period of doubt , because he walked into a studio and saw a young woman putting her feet into the rosin box to stop her shoes from slipping : the familiar action , a mixture of habit and discipline and grace , made him realize where his heart belonged .
28 The prediction of its heliacal rising after inferior conjunction , that is , its first reappearance as ‘ the morning star ’ after a period of invisibility , was of vital concern to the Maya , who regarded it as a moment of particular dread .
29 After a period of conflict , Henry was forced to accept the ban , and fled to his father-in-law in England .
30 In the latest attempt , producer David Puttnam has brought his vision to the screen after a period of 11 years between idea and fact , and he feels viewers are going to like what they see .
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