Example sentences of "[prep] a period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After a period of time we will then ask local groups to provide this information . |
| 3 | The first try came after a period of sustained pressure , when Mal Meninga had the strength to force over from close range . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ For your own sake you should get rid of him — or make him live out , ’ Frank said quietly after a period of silence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After a period of time , the milk appears to skin ; this is the cream rising to the surface of the vat . |
| 12 | After a period of some 45min , the vat appeared full of blancmange . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | According to Freud , this happens after a period of ‘ anaesthesia ’ , in fact , often not until after first coitus . |
| 15 | Think about how people look after a period of sickness and diarrhoea . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After a period of disuse , the Carr Tanning Co took over the premises and are still there . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | After a period of conflict , Henry was forced to accept the ban , and fled to his father-in-law in England . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Thus , a clause in your contract to the effect that your employment will ‘ automatically terminate ’ , if , for example , you fail to return to work on the due date after a period of leave , is likely to be regarded as an invalid attempt to ‘ contract out ’ of modern job security laws . |
| 27 | Initially , garden plots of c. 1 ha are created by felling ( slashing ) and the felled trees are burnt after a period of drying . |
| 28 | After a period of apparent — and perhaps misleading — political stability in the first twenty-five years following the Second World War , the 1970s seem to have marked some sort of turning-point for the British political system . |
| 29 | But they do at least survive , and after a period of time will be able to regrow their tails . |
| 30 | After a period of relative neglect , recordings of his piano works are once again filling the shelves , and a reassessment of this highly-variable , though enormously gifted musician is well under way . |