Example sentences of "[vb pp] a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even wine prices , having enjoyed a period of stability in the Eighties , are beginning to rise as an expanding band of consumers chases after a limited pot of quality wine . |
| 2 | This patient has suffered a period of acute hypoxia . |
| 3 | Inevitably , composers have been quick to exploit percussion possibilities , and if anything we have suffered a period of over-use . |
| 4 | The majority are employed , but about a fifth have suffered a period of unemployment in the past . |
| 5 | Moreover , there has been little recent research on what befalls older manual workers following redundancy , although the labour market has undergone a period of rapid change over the last few years ( one recent exception is Bytheway 1987 ) . |
| 6 | The universe would have then undergone a period of rapid expansion , as in the inflationary models . |
| 7 | Water and Ventilation has recently undergone a period of consolidation and the branch structure has been altered in order to meet our needs for 1992 , this is already bearing fruit as the most recent quarter produced some great sales . |
| 8 | He had endured a period in an animation studio , frustrated by being directed what to draw . |
| 9 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
| 10 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |
| 11 | Erm that period has also had a period of growth within it , and I feel that 's a reasonable basis to go forward on . |
| 12 | I have n't had a period since November 1991 . |
| 13 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 14 | By this time I was 5ft 7in , weighed six stone , was covered in boils , had a mouthful of ulcers and had n't had a period for four months . |
| 15 | Next week I shall be talking with Graham Mayhew , who has recently completed a period in office as Mayor of Lewes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The children are given a period of time , possibly sixty seconds , to look at the items . |
| 18 | By 799 Coenwulf was also in a position to conclude a new treaty of peace with the West Saxons , which seems to have terminated a period of temporary estrangement ( CS 295 : S 154 ) . |
| 19 | Taken together , all these factors allowed a greater breathing space for a consideration of Europe , especially as the democracies had entered a period of unprecedented economic prosperity , something which tended to demote the urgency of protection for specific national interests . |
| 20 | The Geevor tin mine , near Land 's End , also entered a period of restricted production . |
| 21 | Rejected contemptuously by Sartre in 1968 as an integral part of the conservative forces of reaction , the PCF has subsequently entered a period of possibly irreversible decline during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 22 | Already about 1580 , when Marenzio was bringing out his earliest madrigals , secular vocal music had entered a period of crisis . |
| 23 | Whatever the outcome , the UK financial sector has entered a period of increasing risk and uncertainty in which it remains to be seen whether the deregulation of the 1980s has provided it with competitive advantages . |
| 24 | However , the late 1980s has seen the UK housing market enter a much less buoyant phase , with the result that the estate agency sector has entered a period of severe retrenchment . |
| 25 | By the end of 1990 it was generally accepted that the economy had entered a period of recession , although there remained significant differences over the depth and the likely duration of the downturn . |
| 26 | The Roman Catholic Church also entered a period of renewed growth , particularly in Lancashire and other parts of the country where Irish people settled in large numbers . |
| 27 | The report concluded that the world might have " entered a period in which the average growth rates for output and trade over the business cycle ( would ) be higher than they ( had ) been since the outset of economic difficulties in the late 1960s and early 1970s ' . |
| 28 | Thus was inaugurated a period of extensive engineering works , culminating in the construction of the Old Bedford river in 1637 . |
| 29 | Dennis had experienced a period of unemployment , and this , he admitted , had made him much more sympathetic to social-security claimants and even to strikers . |
| 30 | A graduate in urban and regional planning , he originally worked for the Urban Wildlife Trust in Birmingham and also spent a period as an environmental planning consultant . |