Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | They compared the actual returns on 60 US mutual funds for the three-year period 1982–4 with returns that would have been made if a specified strategy for investing in S&P500 futures had been followed . |
| 2 | 2 To prepare the bed area for the post-operative period . |
| 3 | For the Roman period , they provide a wealth of information about the names of festivals and magistracies , as well as the names of the people who held them . |
| 4 | For the Roman period , settlement patterns are perhaps a little more precise . |
| 5 | The rescheduling would take place over 10 years with a six-year period of grace to allow the renegotiation of debt for the preceding period . |
| 6 | This newly acquired information concerning the plans of others can be expected to generate , for the succeeding period of time , a revised set of decisions . |
| 7 | In other words , even without changes in the basic data of the market ( that is , in consumer tastes , technological possibilities and resource availabilities ) , the decisions made in one period of time generate systematic alterations in the corresponding decisions for the succeeding period . |
| 8 | Without autonomous change in tastes , or in technological possibilities , or in the availability of resources , no one can have any interest in altering his plans for the succeeding period . |
| 9 | The worst-affected region was the south-east with fraud cases for the six-year period totalling almost £1.21 billion . |
| 10 | Law codes are a major source for the Anglo-Saxon period , and those which Archbishop Wulfstan of York wrote for Æthelred and Cnut are among the most extensive . |
| 11 | Even if we adjust this figure downwards to say 20 per cent for the pre-1914 period , this still represents quite a large number of women ( 160 out of 800 ) who were in the trade for life , which usually meant until well over 60 . |
| 12 | The budget provided for expenditure of IS66,500 million for the nine-month period from April 1 to Dec. 31 , 1991 ( beginning in 1992 , the budget would run according to the calendar year ) . |
| 13 | As you will see from the contents of this issue of your newspaper , we have an attractive schedule of events for the immediate period with some sensible offers . |
| 14 | The Japanese government had indicated a willingness to provide " economic co-operation " to compensate for its colonization of Korea from 1910 to 1945 , but refused to accept any liability for the post-1945 period . |
| 15 | Both his drawings and the buildings show that he had , for the Elizabethan period , a capable grasp of the language of classical ornament ; he knew and used the works of Serlio , possibly of Palladio , and of the Flemish Mannerist Vredeman de Vries , whose designs were extensively adapted at Wollaton . |
| 16 | Some fish are , in any case , unusually sensitive and may not come round , even after the recommended amount is used for the correct period . |
| 17 | This side of the issue was entrusted to Lord Brabazon of Tara , whose committee was invited to make recommendations on the types of aircraft that Britain should produce for the postwar period . |
| 18 | We therefore included the case in our analysis for the post-Black period 1984–90 as this information should be regarded as testing rather than generating the Seascale hypothesis . |
| 19 | The collections are an essential reference source ‘ especially for the Victorian period . |
| 20 | To counteract this , I 've sometimes specified quantities of potatoes , rice and pasta in the menus , just for the 28-day period , but given two courses at every meal so you should n't need to eat in between . |
| 21 | Therefore tax computations for the relevant period , including the calculation of the surplus ACT , must be submitted as soon as possible . |
| 22 | Such record-keeping requirements will obviously mean that the electronic records need to be continuously maintained in a readable format for the relevant period from creation . |
| 23 | Interest will be charged at the rate of 1 per cent above the Bank base rate prevailing for the relevant period . |
| 24 | We would levy the charge at 1 per cent above the Bank base rate prevailing for the relevant period . |
| 25 | SHARES in Hi-Tec , the sports shoe maker , dropped 7p yesterday to 105p on the announcement of a pre-tax profits fall from £4.1m to £3.1m for the interim period to 31 July . |
| 26 | The NRC , consisting since the February 1989 elections of 210 elected and 68 presidentially appointed members ( and of 98 appointed members hitherto ) , acts as a legislative body for the interim period until a new constitution has been framed . |
| 27 | The President is assisted by a Prime Minister and a Cabinet composed of representatives of a number of political parties ; although the parties continue to exist , political activity is banned , and elections to the National Resistance Council ( NRC — hitherto comprising 98 appointed members ) were conducted on a non-party basis in February 1989 [ see p. 36455 ] , since when the NRC , now consisting of 210 elected and 68 presidentially appointed members , has acted as a legislative body for the interim period until a new constitution is framed . |
| 28 | The vendor 's taxation for the interim period will be difficult to calculate and may not be determinable until the end of the financial year at the earliest , particularly if the business sold comprises one division of the vendor 's overall business . |
| 29 | For the entire period it accounts for some 70 per cent of the year-to-year variation in the rate of change of aggregate union membership . |
| 30 | Tradition required not only that she rot in constricted shade with the disintegrating corpse of her husband , but that she also eat a special diet for the entire period , which excluded any rice at all . |