Example sentences of "of a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , under the proposals , established partners who anticipate retiring after the five-year transitional relief has expired will pay tax in respect of a greater period of time than they have actually been a partner . |
| 2 | G/C Ilbery , now a doctor living in Australia , was the last man to fly an operational sortie from the now-abandoned airfield in the spring of 1945 , at the end of a bloody period in the anti-shipping strikes from Dallachy and nearby RAF Banff . |
| 3 | Readers may like to think about the sort of policy interactions involved by asking themselves what would be the effects upon social life and social policy of the reintroduction of a two-year period of compulsory national service . |
| 4 | Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery . |
| 5 | The migrating motor complex consists of a cyclical period of activity with a length of about 120 minutes in man . |
| 6 | ‘ Quarterly or half-yearly , it is a good plan for the housekeeper to make an inventory of everything she has under her care , and compare this with the lists of a former period . ’ |
| 7 | The team were still wrapped together in the comfort zone of a four-year period when each had cosseted and protected the other . |
| 8 | Since a call for , or a repayment of , special deposits requires a period of notice , the scheme is best suited to occasions when there is the prospect of a protracted period of surplus cash which the Bank wishes to offset . |
| 9 | Although fixed terms allow for the job to end through a ‘ natural break ’ , the expiry of a fixed period of employment still counts as a dismissal for some legal purposes , such as the right to claim unfair dismissal or redundancy pay . |
| 10 | Although fixed terms allow for the job to end through a ‘ natural break ’ , the expiry of a fixed period of employment still counts as a dismissal for some legal purposes , such as the right to claim unfair dismissal or redundancy pay . |
| 11 | For the duration of a fixed period after the setting of the flags , communication becomes more frequent and more customised . |
| 12 | As another type C arrangement indeed , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the latter is of a similar period to that of the London mosaic . |
| 13 | It was the beginning of a frustrating period for Hunt and his mood swings were on the downturn . |
| 14 | It is so sensitive ( 99% accurate in laboratory testing ) that an accurate result can be obtained on the first day of a missed period . |
| 15 | Each player has been set an individual achievement target , and has the security of a year-long period in which to prove himself . |
| 16 | There could be exhibitions of the best tapestries and textiles , the finest portraiture , the most outstanding silver ; or the best of a certain period drawn together from National Trust houses ; and perhaps linked displays on craftmanship , techniques , restoration and conservation . |
| 17 | As for the merits of the original illustrations as works of art , to my own taste at least the first impressions were of a certain period quality — with Wade 's occasional curvaceous nudes and sports car profiles intruded into the abstract geometries bringing memories of Victor Vasarely 's more lamentable lapses into commercial vulgarity , In the end , however , Wade 's sheer enthusiasm and invention persuaded me into a renewed fascination . |
| 18 | ‘ People can dip in and out , looking at objects which represent the best that artists of a certain period believed they could do woven in with some everyday things . |
| 19 | They , they had a documentary on Metros apparently and the Me they said that Metros of a certain period for about , I think from his period sort of A registration , B registration , Y registration they 're absolute rubbish apparently . |
| 20 | In April 1932 RAPP was disbanded , and although in the Soviet Union the ensuing liberalising effect was only temporary , lasting until 1935–6 when rigid cultural controls were reintroduced under the watchful eye of Zhdanov , in France , by contrast , 1932 was to mark the beginning of a prolonged period not only of cultural liberalisation within the PCF but also of political co-operation between communists and fellow-travelling sympathisers . |
| 21 | That means the domestic sector faces the prospect of a prolonged period of persistent losses . |
| 22 | Goalscorers are under the microscope more than anyone for England after the retirement of Gary Lineker and that reassurance of a definite period to prove himself would settle Ian . |
| 23 | Money The backward movement of Mercury on the 11th will mark the start of a three-week period dominated by setbacks and frustrations concerning personal finances . |
| 24 | The purpose of a system of budgeting is to provide a reasoned framework for the financial decisions of a future period . |
| 25 | A visit to India by the Nepalese Prime Minister , Krishna Prasad Bhattarai , in June 1990 had marked the end of a 15-month period of soured Indo-Nepalese relations [ see p. 37531 ] . |
| 26 | He flew from London to Sweden at the beginning of December , and at the ceremony on 10 December he was described as " a leader and champion of a new period in the long history of the world 's poetry " . |
| 27 | Rather than ending divisions in the Labour Party , the controversies of 1935 mark the beginning of a new period of prolonged disunity . |
| 28 | As contemporary writing testifies , it was the sad end of a glorious period in English history . |
| 29 | er when Pearl , my other daughter came over Christmas , course Andrea was more or less still going through a bit of a rough period with between her grandfather and her , you know ? |
| 30 | The warrant boom of 1987–89 was the last phase of a long period of dramatic change for Japanese companies and their bankers . |