Example sentences of "a [adj] period during " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , they may send both the documentation and the program to the potential purchaser allowing a limited period during which the package can be used and evaluated . |
| 2 | THE innocence of youth will give way to the pressures of adulthood when Duncan Ferguson plays against Germany at Ibrox tomorrow night , ending a nine-month period during which his future at the highest level looked in doubt . |
| 3 | Once the eggs have hatched the tiny fry are without parental care and become free swimming for a brief period during which time they must find their own host anemone . |
| 4 | A period of teacher training followed , after which Blamey returned to teach at the Regent Street Polytechnic where he remained , apart from a brief period during the war , until it combined with the Chelsea Polytechnic . |
| 5 | However , this outlay can easily be offset by letting the apartment out for a brief period during the peak season . |
| 6 | St Giles 's cathedral nearby is more properly known as the High Kirk , having been formally designated a cathedral for only a brief period during the reign of Charles I. It was here that Charles attempted to impose a High Anglican liturgy , virtually a Mass , upon a Presbyterian society which responded with brawls in the church and outside , still remembered as the Jenny Geddes Riots after a vegetable seller from the market who was reported to have thrown her stool at the Dean 's head . |
| 7 | Apart from a brief period during the First World War , when the Royal Flying Corps had use of the area inside the circuit , Brooklands was used continuously from 1907 to the outbreak of the Second World War . |
| 8 | After a brief period during which a registered trade union was a corporate body under the Act of 1971 , the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 restored the immunity , though liability was imposed ( where there was no trade dispute ) for certain torts causing personal injury or breaches of duty connected with the union 's property . |
| 9 | He retired from medicine in 1930 , although for a brief period during World War II he acted as locum for a Cambridge doctor who had joined up . |
| 10 | The broad branching heads of large , ragged yellow daisies appear over a long period during summer ; a large patch is a magnificent spectacle . |
| 11 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
| 12 | Even after the Union of the Crowns there remained a long period during which old traditions and suspicions simmered uneasily , and old local enmities flared up at the slightest provocation . |
| 13 | Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) . |
| 14 | These long-term priming effects are explained , within the logogen model , by assuming that after threshold has been reached activation dies down rapidly at first over a period of a second or so , but does not quite reach the normal resting level : there follows a long period during which there is very slow decay of residual activation — a period measured in hours or even days . |
| 15 | Leah bore him children , but Rachel was barren for a long period during which Jacob had children by her maidservant before she eventually gave birth to Joseph and then Benjamin . |
| 16 | It had been a hectic period during which we had been under some pressure . |
| 17 | Barthes has differentiated between a postwar period during which the cultural influence of the French writer/intellectual has gradually diminished , and an interwar period during which " great writers … such as Gide , Claudel , Valery , Malraux … were at the centre of intense activity , exerting enormous cultural influence " . " |
| 18 | It seems very doubtful whether the required amount of water ever falls in present conditions and many authorities have attributed such erosion to a wetter period during the Pleistocene . |
| 19 | Further , from the time of an announcement of an auction until 28 days after it has been held , the Bank observes a fallow period during which it does not sell stock of a similar type to that being auctioned so as not to be seen to be depressing the price . |
| 20 | For a start , it allows spreading to be carried over a longer period during the winter months ( Table 1 ) . |
| 21 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 22 | A request by opposition parties to allow a transitional period during which the newly formed parties could prepare for elections was refused on the grounds that the election dates were specified in the Constitution . |
| 23 | Scotch malt whisky and Scotch grain whisky must , by law , mature for a minimum of three years — in practice , most mature for much longer — five years , ten , fifteen , sometimes more … a lingering period during which Scotland 's cool , clear air steals through the porous oak of the casks and charms their contents , contributing to the smooth and golden character of each distillery 's unique creation . |
| 24 | In addition , it is normal to put a maximum period during which claims can be made — usually six or seven years for taxation , since that is the normal limitation period , and two to three years for other warranties ; but this obviously needs to be looked at in each case in the light of particular facts , warranties , assets and liabilities . |
| 25 | After serving as US permanent representative at the UN , Young had spent two terms as mayor of Atlanta , an eight-year period during which the city had been transformed into a magnet for domestic and foreign investment and had become a symbol of the " New South " . |