Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work will be carried out relaying pavings in Library Square from Monday 23 March for a period of approximately four weeks . |
| 2 | As well as establishing a nominated Senate and a Legislature elected by universal male suffrage , it gave the presidency to Louis-Napoleon for a period of ten years . |
| 3 | FinallyJanet Seligman after a period working with an antiquarian bookseller joined Sotheby & co as cataloguer of rare books and manuscripts . |
| 4 | The move was described by the Independent of April 20 as marking " a renewal of close co-operation between France and [ West ] Germany after a period of uncertainty generated by the speed of German unification " . |
| 5 | The Law Society requires newly qualified solicitors to undertake approved CPD for a period of three years on pain of withdrawal of their practising certificate . |
| 6 | On seeing my person , he took the opportunity to inform me that he had just that moment finalized plans to return to the United States for a period of five weeks between August and September . |
| 7 | I was seized one day with the desire to go to the United States for a period of study . |
| 8 | Itzhak Shamir , the Prime Minister and Likud leader , announced at the end of a Cabinet meeting on Dec. 31 that he was dismissing Weizmann from the Cabinet , claiming that Weizmann had maintained contacts with the PLO over a period of time . |
| 9 | The FA could ban Wright from playing for England for a period . |
| 10 | ‘ He sent a message to the governor explaining that the thefts continued to take place at a time when the firm had transferred me to England for a period of six months . |
| 11 | At the height of Celtic 's success , the club 's disciplinarian manager Willie Maley took his team to a luxury hotel in Dunbar for a period of training and relaxation . |
| 12 | It was perhaps typical of Ferguson that his home debut for Scotland after a period of prolonged difficulty on and off the field should be an unfettered display of the forward 's rich gifts . |
| 13 | The stardom sort of crept up on Nicholson over a period of weeks . |
| 14 | But this is surely nitpicking , in what can be viewed as a significant contribution to our knowledge of so many aspects relating to the ordinary citizens of Florence over a period of more than 200 years . |
| 15 | Thereafter , two additional 1 ml pulses were instilled : a 100 µmol HCl bolus , as a mild irritant , and a pulse of 300 , 400 , 500 , 600 , or 700 µmol HCl after a period of 30 minutes . |
| 16 | Remarkable posters designed from his Brighton Studio for the Academy Cinema in Oxford Street over a period of forty years — each in effect a ‘ portrait ’ of the film . |
| 17 | Police Registration for non EC students is £30 ( All Non Commonwealth students — other than EC Nationals — over the age of 16 who have been admitted to the UK for a period longer than 6 months are required to register with the police . ) |
| 18 | And has been resident in the United Kingdom for a period of not less than ten years . ’ |
| 19 | ( a ) Appointment The court has a positive duty to appoint a guardian ad litem in the following proceedings unless satisfied that this is not necessary in order to safeguard the child 's interests ( s41 ) : ( i ) application for a care or supervision order ; ( ii ) direction to investigate under s37 when an interim care order has been made or is under consideration ; ( iii ) application for discharge of a care order ; ( iv ) application for variation or discharge of a supervision order ; ( v ) application to extend a supervision order ; ( vi ) application to substitute a supervision order for a care order ; ( vii ) consideration of a residence order for a child in care ; ( viii ) application relating to contact with a child in care ; ( ix ) proceedings relating to emergency protection and child assessment orders ; ( x ) proceedings relating to secure accommodation orders ; ( xi ) application for leave to change the surname of a child in care ; ( xii ) application for leave to remove a child in care from the United Kingdom for a period exceeding one month ; ( xiii ) application for leave to permit the emigration of a child in care ; ( xiv ) appeal against the making or refusal to make , vary or discharge above orders . |
| 20 | On 22 May 1807 he joined the Royal Naval College in Portsmouth for a period of eighteen months after which , as a midshipman , he served in Lavinia in the Mediterranean and north Atlantic for more than three years . |
| 21 | After our break-up she went to Australia for a period . |
| 22 | The defensive characteristics of the distributors are illustrated in the healthy performance of W H Smith and Menzies during a period of recession . |
| 23 | The weather had been typical for August with a period of heavy rain and the men returning to work found that a land slip had occurred . |
| 24 | In this way many kept an account going at Gieves over a period of years for a modest monthly sum of two or three pounds . |
| 25 | Section 1 , Para. 2 , of the Policy provides cover whilst the craft is in most of the countries in Western Europe for a period not exceeding 31 consecutive days during any one period of insurance . |
| 26 | Sixty five patients with rheumatoid arthritis ( n= 57 ) or osteoarthritis ( n=7 ) and taking NSAIDs for a period of greater than three months ( mean 4.5 ( SD 3.1 ) years ) were recruted from a rheumatology clinic to undergo a screening upper gastrointestinal endoscopy before entry into a therapeutic trial that had been approved by the hospital ethics committee . |
| 27 | Fig. 9.1 Age-sex profiles for Great Britain over a period of 130 years . |
| 28 | In each case a small working party met within SHHD over a period of a number of months . |
| 29 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 30 | Plants in some 34 families were used in Borneo over a period of 16 months and all but 5 were sources of fruit . |