Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | This benefit allows you to deduct the years when you were required to give up work from the normal qualifying period for a basic pension and so , in effect , shorten the number of years when you would otherwise have been required to make contributions . |
| 2 | It is now widely realised that a comprehensive education for a mentally handicapped child should continue over a longer time than the normal educational period of 5–16 years . |
| 3 | The suspension during the first three weeks and the possible extended period does not apply to a public takeover or exchange bid , provided this has been notified to the Commission at the same time as it is publicly announced . |
| 4 | A new culture is also developing in the controlled zones which tries to incorporate traditional campesina culture into the themes of the liberation struggle , popular theatre and music groups reinterpret the theatre-dance , the sones and boleros still found in the rural areas of El Salvador , These date back to the Spanish colonial period but much has been lost because of the impact of commercialized Western culture . |
| 5 | FIG. 1 The barycentric period of PSR J0437–4715 over an interval of 15 days showing the Doppler effect of the 5.7-day orbital period . |
| 6 | 1992 is the 350th anniversary of the outbreak of the English Civil Wars — the greatest single period of conflict ever to occur on English soil . |
| 7 | The greatest creative period was between the thirteenth century and the seventeenth . |
| 8 | Peter Sawyer has suggested that some of the earliest surviving charters of the Anglo Saxon period refer to such estates and hence for some areas in the seventh century the early estate structure can be defined . |
| 9 | Much of what he had seen so far confirmed the assessment of the Imperial survey — that the stage of development Tarvaras had reached was equivalent to that which was thought to have existed during the Terran medieval period . |
| 10 | After the usual lengthy period of gestation , the government produced the " Temporary Rules " of 1865 ( which remained in place until 1905 ) . |
| 11 | The only difference is that , the fewer roses you have space for , the more certain you have to be that the varieties you grow give the greatest possible pleasure , for the longest possible period and with the most resistance against pest and disease . |
| 12 | Arrangements for the financing of the bridge beyond the end of the extended tolling period in 1996 are under consideration . |
| 13 | I 'd forgone breakfast because I had n't got to bed till four in the morning , lunch because I had a hangover and anyway I was late for the train , and due to the fact that it was — according to British Rail at any rate — still part of the extended Festive Period , there had been no buffet trolley on the train . |
| 14 | Beauvais Cathedral in northern France was an ambitious project of the High Gothic period . |
| 15 | The incremental area under the curve was calculated for the 30 minute period of stimulation in each individual patient by the trapezoid method , after subtraction of the mean basal for that patient . |
| 16 | It was the French Colonial period and we had no science teachers in the village . |
| 17 | On the seven-day cooling-off period , it is correct , as the Minister says , that there are similar provisions in other European countries , but will he confirm that , in those countries where there is a cooling-off period for unions , there is also a cooling-off period for employers ? |
| 18 | Predictably , the basic patterns are inherited from colonial times and often ( at some remove ) from the English Board Schools of the early 1900's ; hence the three term year , the five day week , the six or seven year cycle , the age five or six entry , the forty minute period . |
| 19 | Therefore , although the South established " an international port of entry " on the southern bank of the Injim river — complete with immigration control and currency exchange facilities — not a single person was permitted to cross the border in either direction during the entire five-day period . |
| 20 | Numerous other fragments of buildings , many of barn-like or shop-like forms , have been discovered in the suburbs , representing almost the entire Roman period from the lat e first century onwards . |
| 21 | This overlapping of styles is seen throughout the entire pre-war period , and since every phase contains the seeds for future developments , one is forced to take as focal points works in which discoveries or innovations are fully realized , rather than those in which they are first suggested . |
| 22 | This has arisen because , with the exception of the rabbit and possibly the human ( see Chapter 14 ) , the mouse is the only species that can be cultured in vitro over the entire pre-implantation period . |
| 23 | In general , there is no doubt that through the entire post-war period the readership of the national press reflected divisions of social class and education more distinctly than anything else — age , gender , religion , political attitude and so on . |
| 24 | The continued , indeed increasing , level of corporate interest in owning newspapers and TV channels characteristic of the entire post-war period reflects the continuing ‘ clout ’ which media outlets have in determining the selection of politicians and the issues which form the fabric of electoral debate . |
| 25 | Unstimulated amylase release ( C=control ) during the entire experimental period was also determined and presented as basal value . |
| 26 | The six rooms on the main floor of the Academy will be devoted to : innovations in composition in the second half of the eighteenth century , through to the early work of Cotman and Girtin , with an emphasis on the importance of Alexander Cozens ; topography , spanning the entire chronological period from the Sandby brothers to Lear ; naturalism , including watercolour sketches , observations of nature , still-lifes , animal studies etc. ; later developments in composition ; atmosphere , stressing the ‘ proto-impressionist ’ nature of works by artists such as Cox and Muller ; and lastly the relationship between watercolours and oils and the role of the Old Water-Colour Society in the promotion of the medium as suitable to portray historical and literary subjects . |
| 27 | Even more remarkable , perhaps , that this branch of the Titfords was to make only two significant moves from one place to another in the entire 400-year period from 1547 to 1947 : first leaving Bratton for Frome in 1625 , then settling in London from the late 1790s onwards . |
| 28 | The , we did er our baths were dating from the nineteen fourteen period and they were getting rather old the , the , the boiler was n't too good and we were afraid that it might burst at some time . |
| 29 | In the Roman Imperial period copper and bronze statues and silver and bronze jewellery were commonly gilded . |
| 30 | The Christian writers of the Roman imperial period write with a freshness and excitement which is absent from most of the non-Christian authors . |