Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | This patient has suffered a period of acute hypoxia . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A HOME Office grant for a youth work project has signalled a period of intense activity for Middlesbrough 's Safer Cities programme . |
| 7 | The study appears fortunately timed since it has covered a period of relatively intense local violence between the rival supporters of Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 8 | Andrew Lloyd Webber ) half inched the composer 's Rondeau as their election theme , the Dean has advised a period of diplomatic silence at services . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Those behind the Feb. 3-4 coup attempt [ see pp. 38759-60 ] , he said , followed a " totalitarian and extremist ideology " ; they would have prevented the holding of the local elections due later in the year , and would have introduced a period of " silence and persecution " . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that Lowe used sign language — during sometime in his career , he must have spent a period or periods in Edinburgh because the Member 's List of Edinburgh 's Congregational Deaf Church lists a John William Lowe of London as Member no. 125 , married to a hearing wife , for the period 1836 to 1838 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | He had endured a period in an animation studio , frustrated by being directed what to draw . |
| 14 | It was true that she had missed a period , but that could mean anything or nothing . |
| 15 | Then she said , ‘ You 've got a period ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Already about 1580 , when Marenzio was bringing out his earliest madrigals , secular vocal music had entered a period of crisis . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In a statement before he left on Nov. 3 , Bérégovoy was quoted as saying that the two countries had overcome a period of strain and had agreed to give a new impetus to their partnership . |
| 21 | Please to remember I had finished my own stint , and I had served a period on Bennett 's staff as his " horse-thief " — the recruiter and trainer , I was the Group training inspector . |
| 22 | studies of radical tracts had covered a period without any of today 's party politics . |
| 23 | Inevitably , composers have been quick to exploit percussion possibilities , and if anything we have suffered a period of over-use . |
| 24 | The majority are employed , but about a fifth have suffered a period of unemployment in the past . |
| 25 | I try to work out if she 's got a period due or if she 's been having trouble with her mother . |
| 26 | Well she 's had a period now . |
| 27 | The 1970s and 1980s have constituted a period of major transformation in Britain 's demographic patterns , notwithstanding the almost stationary size of the national population itself . |
| 28 | The revolutions in Eastern Europe have paved the way for the dismantling of state socialist systems and have initiated a period of transition towards the re-establishment of a market economy . |
| 29 | In time , such things have acquired a period charm . |