Example sentences of "and a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | All are influenced by a strongly seasonal climate with abundant rainfall during the summer months and a dry period of between 4 and 8 months . |
| 2 | On Sundays there were two full-length chapel services , walks outside the school grounds , an hour of silent reading , and a similar period for letter-writing and mending clothes . |
| 3 | Let us have in mind , only slightly less imprecisely , a period of light in London and thereabouts , that one I now call yesterday , and a following period of darkness , last night . |
| 4 | It was felt that if people managed to overcome the above obstacles , a support programme and a transitionary period are necessary to make entering employment successful . |
| 5 | A period of English cricket history has come to an end , and a new period has started . |
| 6 | The other major offence is drunken driving , an offence bristling with technicalities which carries a maximum prison sentence of six months ' and a minimum period twelve months ' disqualification from driving . |
| 7 | You must indicate a time window within which the check should take place ; this time is specified by a maximum period and a minimum period . |
| 8 | A red semi-regular variable in the Great Bear , with a range from 6.8 to 9.1 and a rough period of 198 days ; for part of the time it is an easy binocular object . |
| 9 | They need a dry period and a wet period as in the wild . |
| 10 | After a long period of depression , and a short period of training , he had taken on a new career — one which also demanded dexterity with the hands : that of a mortician . |
| 11 | The apples produced all the weight-control benefits of low ingestion , high bulk and a lengthy period in the stomach and they did not lead to rebound hunger . |
| 12 | So , apart from the odd practice session and a brief period recovering from illness , Morrissey was completely detached from Marr , Joyce and Rourke . |
| 13 | Despite a programme of Russification ( including a ban on the use of Ukrainian in schools and publications ) , a strongly nationalist movement emerged in the late nineteenth century which led to pressure for greater autonomy and a brief period of independence immediately after the October revolution . |
| 14 | Each period of casual employment will be treated separately and a previous period may not be aggregated with a current period for determining sick leave allowable . |
| 15 | The LCC grant aid scheme offered £2 million to local authorities to buy up land for green belt purposes , and a vigorous period of purchase ensued between 1935 and 1939 . |
| 16 | A report by Barclays Bank economics department in August 1991 stated that " in structural terms the economy has to face the prospect of the single market in the EC and a further period of deregulation " . |
| 17 | Copies of all the counter proposals and representations were then placed on local deposit in council offices and a further period allowed for representations to be made about them . |
| 18 | This was not done for players with less than ten years ' service and a longer period was usually required . |
| 19 | He held the leadership of the Conservative Party , to which he was unanimously elected ( proposed by Curzon ) immediately following his accession to the premiership , until 1937 , a longer period than any of his predecessors since Salisbury , and a longer period too than any but one ( Churchill ) of his seven successors has since attained . |
| 20 | In the past there has been an assumption that pupils ' attainment will dip as a result of transfer and a settling period will be needed . |