Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the article correctly acknowledges , generally magnox fuel must be reprocessed within a few years of discharge from a reactor , from an advanced gas-cooled reactor ( AGR ) , fuel may be stored underwater for somewhat longer periods and for much longer in a dry store . |
| 2 | Sanders are operated for much larger periods than drills . |
| 3 | in order to get a better estimate of how accurately the clock works we need to be able to study it for much longer periods of time . |
| 4 | The dry stores , says GEC , are cheaper than conventional water pools , leak less radioactivity and can be used for much longer periods . |
| 5 | One of the basic factors we have to bear in mind about fungi is that , unlike insects , which make their attack at certain predictable times depending on their life cycles , fungal attack in one form or another is about and ready to take advantage of any weakness for much longer periods — in fact , at almost any time of the year . |
| 6 | A distinction can be made between short-term potentiation ( STP ) , which decays within 1h , and long-term potentiation ( LTP ) , which is sustained for much longer periods . |
| 7 | The life sentence is indeterminate and although the average length of time served is just over ten years , many men stay in prison for much longer periods . |
| 8 | Most patients in both groups could defer defecation for longer than 15 minutes ( usually for much longer periods ) and could discriminate satisfactorily between flatus and faeces . |
| 9 | Other loans are for much longer periods . |
| 10 | But the records suggest that large flocks of Wigeon have stayed for much shorter periods in many inland localities since 1964 as a result of the generally drier conditions . |
| 11 | The ‘ inclusive tour ’ is less well developed , for instance , and most holidays are independently arranged and are for much shorter periods . |
| 12 | The best practice combines these two approaches — with the whole class working in the hall ( or drama room ) on a regular basis and small groups working for much shorter periods in the classroom . |
| 13 | Faced with these forces , governments have found they can support their national producers for only limited periods . |
| 14 | The garden has been planned to make the last amount of work for those who maintain it : John himself ; his father , who is now 80 and can work for only short periods ; Mr Broughton , who clips the hedges , and Patricia who weeds . |
| 15 | Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days . |
| 16 | Therefore any available time during less busy periods should be used for teaching . |
| 17 | At present , the executive takes decisions to release some murderers after only a few years and to keep others in prison for extremely long periods . |
| 18 | Brasel ( 1976 ) , in a study of fatigue , replicates Gerver 's ( 1972 ) findings with spoken interpretation , that interpreter fatigue after very short periods of interpreting ( 30 minutes ) begins to introduce an error rate which after an hour is statistically significant and unacceptable . |
| 19 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 20 | In the meantime , the director who would have done it , who is a name director , has asked me to go and work at the RSC because she 's now busy for exactly that period of time . |
| 21 | This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) . |
| 22 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 23 | What is true for general histories also applies to surveys of more limited periods . |
| 24 | Finally , librarians can collaborate with teachers in the planning of more formal periods of organized research as part of a wider programme of study ; it is here that the librarian can often explain to the teacher the problems which readers have been observed to encounter in such activities , so that the resolution of these can be built into the overall plan . |
| 25 | Pahl ( 1984 ) asserts that it is the last hundred years that have been the aberration compared with the greater flexibility of both earlier periods and the present time . |
| 26 | Mike , born in 1938 , did his national service in the RAF ; after early retirement from a teaching career he devotes himself full-time to his lifelong interest in the organisational and OOB aspects of almost all periods of military and naval history , and offers a paid service to researchers in his field of interest . |
| 27 | Their character encourages comparison with seasonal festivals of yet earlier periods . |
| 28 | During more liberal periods the requirement of political loyalty has been relaxed to strengthen the expertise required for rapid technological progress ( Schurman 1970 ; Hearn 1978 ) . |
| 29 | There were also financial losses to the British Electricity Authority from having to operate old and inefficient plant for more extended periods than they would have chosen in normal times : in the early 1950s the extra cost of burning scarce coal inefficiently was reckoned at £3½ millions a year at the low official coal prices of the time , though the real resource cost was somewhat higher than this . |
| 30 | The trouble was that , unlike most other periods of Delhi 's history , there seemed to be very few good primary sources . |