Example sentences of "for a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where committed facilities are in existence at the balance sheet date which permit the refinancing of debt for a period beyond its maturity , the earliest date at which the lender has the right to demand repayment should be taken to be the maturity date of the longest refinancing permitted by a facility in respect of which all the following conditions are met : |
| 2 | He may be required to live away from home for a period as part of the " treatment " programme devised by the supervisor . |
| 3 | The M1 was opened for a period at junction one yesterday , to relieve congestion . |
| 4 | Other variations on possible repayment structures include a moratorium on capital repayments ( and possibly also interest payments ) for a period at the beginning of the loan . |
| 5 | For this purpose suitable young men , it was sometimes proposed , might be attached for a period at the beginning of their careers to their country 's foreign ministry . |
| 6 | The death of the old Daily Herald , the longest surviving Labour daily , founded in 1912 and owned by the Labour party for a period between the wars , was more agony than trauma when compared with the demise of the News Chronicle , but equally disturbing for its supporters . |
| 7 | It allows them the monopoly to exploit their invention for a period without unauthorised limitation or competition . |
| 8 | It is , of course , the Joyce of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses who attracted the nouveaux romanciers rather than Finnegans Wake , whose verbal and linguistic inventiveness did not receive many enthusiasts , except for a period during the 1970s when both Robbe-Grillet and Simon were influenced by the theories of Jean Ricardou , who stressed the productive nature of work on language in order to counter representation . |
| 9 | Although Joan mostly worked as a Spool Setter , she became an Axminster Winding Instructor for a period during which she was sent to a subsidiary company in Holland ( Bergos Stoddard ) for a number of weeks . |
| 10 | Garde à vue detention allows the police to detain suspects for interrogation for a period of up to 10 days . |
| 11 | the failure has continued for a period of , or periods amounting to , at least five years , |
| 12 | It is usual to hire a new vehicle on a fully maintained basis for a period of about three years . |
| 13 | This gives an approximate value to work to , so a 20-year-old will aim to generate a pulse rate of 175 beats per minute for a period of 20 minutes or so . |
| 14 | All stretches should be gradual and held for a period of 30 seconds before release . |
| 15 | In order to provide ‘ permanent ’ help , many agencies operate a rota system with the carers working for a period of one or two weeks or a month , and then changing over in a planned way with another carer . |
| 16 | For new cars the length of the agreement varies according to whether you buy on contract hire ( commonly known as ‘ lease ’ ) which is for a period of three years , or on hire purchase which can be between four and five years . |
| 17 | Mr Neville Chamberlain , in his Housing Act of 1923 , changed the subsidy arrangement to one by which the Government undertook to give a definite and limited contribution of £6 per annum per house for a period of twenty years . |
| 18 | 1973 when he became chairman of the corporation for a period of three years . |
| 19 | They stay in the reception classes for a period of up to three years , after which they are usually dropped into the lowest streams of the schools to which the classes are attached … |
| 20 | That tribunal said that to force an applicant to state whether he intends to live here forever , or for a period of not less than six months , invites deceit and was somewhat removed from reality . |
| 21 | He has appealed for a halt to the fighting , warning anybody who will listen that the Arab world is headed ‘ for a period of turbulence like never before ’ . |
| 22 | Different in theory , but similar in effect , are the provisions of the Prescription Act 1832 , under which rights to easements and profits à prendre may be established by reason of enjoyment for a period of not less than twenty years in the one case , and not less than thirty in the other . |
| 23 | These relationships assume great importance and for a period of time they are probably the most significant ones we have . |
| 24 | It becomes an inevitable part of normal living that we form significant relationships with particular individuals for a period of time and then , often through force of circumstance , move away from those same relationships . |
| 25 | UNLIKE those rich enough to set aside assets for a period of years in order to avoid tax , those dependent on income — particularly those subject to Pay As You Earn — have limited scope to fend off the taxman . |
| 26 | In middle age , at a time when those in other industries were looking for a period of consolidation , the farmer could be faced with problems when a son or daughter ‘ came home ’ . |
| 27 | One college had started a course of 3 hours on one evening each week plus ‘ homework ’ for a period of 16 months . |
| 28 | ICI , on the other hand , runs a career break scheme where breaks are available for both men and women for a period of between two and five years . |
| 29 | In hide-and-seek , a number of people agree for a period of time to abstract from living what they know of the ‘ hiding ’ function ( i.e. that people can be ‘ hiders ’ and ‘ seekers ’ and that places can be ‘ hiding places ’ ) and to behave , for the time being , as if only that function mattered . |
| 30 | Third , under section 19 temporary exception or modification can be directed by a head teacher in respect of an individual pupil — for a period of six months initially , with the possibility of two further three-month periods of exception . |