Example sentences of "[adj] period [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All major political leaders in India expressed their horror at Gandhi 's assassination and the government immediately declared a seven-day period of state mourning . |
| 2 | — For a seven-day period after Passover the people are to eat unleavened bread as a reminder of the hasty departure from Egypt . |
| 3 | As in the past , the cost to the union would be high , and an enforced period of recovery and retrenchment would — not for the first time — follow . |
| 4 | Equally clay moulds may have been produced by carving in the negative directly onto the clay ; while carving a negative is difficult it was achieved with success at other times , for instance in the medieval period with stone moulds . |
| 5 | However , our prayers will be with the Fellowship as you embark on this exciting period of change in the church . |
| 6 | Movement from the centralities of ‘ real polising ’ in uniform , via the CID , into the marginal fringes of an extended period of drug squad work , had a profound influence on the absolute tenets of policing I had absorbed over the previous decade . |
| 7 | Whereas in the home market sales and production are likely to be financed from existing working capital , the extended period of credit which is possible in the export trade may necessitate additional forms of finance . |
| 8 | Predominantly Russian Orthodox by religion although with a substantial Roman Catholic ( Uniate ) minority , Kievan Rus had been the origin of the Russian state in the ninth century and enjoyed an extended period of independence , but then came under Lithuanian , Polish and ( from the seventeenth century ) Russian control . |
| 9 | The sandwich principle , co-operative education and industrial or clinical placement are different terms for essentially the same thing : an extended period of work experience which is built into courses of study and by which students gain knowledge of current working practices and new developments in industry and the professions . |
| 10 | After an extended period of neglect the decorative arts in Rome are about to have new homes . |
| 11 | Post-Qualification Review — Extended Period of Consultation |
| 12 | Young people from working-class backgrounds , for instance , are more likely to spend time with a boy/girl-friend whereas young people from G middle-class backgrounds continue to move around in mixed sex groups for a longer period , perhaps anticipating an extended period of dependence on parents as they head for further or higher education . |
| 13 | Between 1736 and 1738 Ramsay journeyed to Italy for an extended period of study , training under Francesco Imperiale in Rome and Francesco Solimena in Naples . |
| 14 | They apply to the justification of the use of public power over a range of issues , for an extended period of time . |
| 15 | What is not rubbish is that an attempt to operate modern cars on low octane fuel for any extended period of time is likely to have very severe consequences for the engine . |
| 16 | Previously , investigations like this had been done mainly from the outsider 's point of view , and it was men like Evans-Pritchard ( 1902–73 ) , Radcliffe-Brown ( 1881–1955 ) , and , particularly , Malinowski ( 1884–1942 ) , who determined that the only really effective way of understanding the way of life of these peoples was to go and live among them for an extended period of time , learning their language , and becoming accepted as a member of their social groups . |
| 17 | Other freeholders , however , were less career-motivated , and often showed considerable loyalty to a particular political interest over an extended period of time , and as a generalisation it might be suggested that they were less likely to jump from one interest to another than were the lawyers with judicial preferment in mind . |
| 18 | Miller observed that penal institutions ‘ can not sustain their decency over an extended period of time . |
| 19 | There is a general expectation that people will not remember detailed facts correctly if they are only exposed to them in the spoken mode , especially if they are required to remember them over an extended period of time . |
| 20 | Like just about everything , they had a history and , like most other phenomena based on biological processes — for the ego and superego , although purely psychological agencies , nevertheless require a brain in which to function — evolved over an extended period of time . |
| 21 | b ) plants transferred to 5°C midway through the first light period after Time 0 ; |
| 22 | This , the report claimed , would explain why Sophie-Liberté , apparently born during her mother 's supposed 29-month period of captivity , actually had the appearance of a four-year-old . |
| 23 | I 'm back at school now , studying for A levels , but I spend every free period at home . |
| 24 | I spent most evenings and every free period from college by your bedside . |
| 25 | Robert always had a free period after lunch . |
| 26 | So , a story set in contemporary Britain is likely to be easier ( for British pupils ) than one set in a different period of history or in a different culture or environment . |
| 27 | It will all come right , now that a different period of history has begun . |
| 28 | It is far better for the buyer and the seller to avoid all these arguments by providing for an express period of time in which defects will be remedied . |
| 29 | In the spring of 1802 there was another phase of mutually influenced poetic production ; Wordsworth wrote over thirty important poems at this time , and though Coleridge had already announced — in March 1801 — that ‘ The poet is dead in me ’ , he was able to contribute the main theme of the dialogue , which is , put simply , what happens to ‘ young Romantic poets ’ after the age of thirty when the visionary period of youth comes to an end . |
| 30 | The currently fashionable and oft repeated litany is that although the world air transport industry is presently going through a fundamental and painful period of change , this will ultimately lead to a new and improved deployment of resources , through the creation of far fewer but infinitely larger air carriers . |