Example sentences of "to a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , he may be told that his alibi relates to a period between 2 and 5 p.m. last Thursday , when he left the refectory after lunch and took a train to a named neighbouring town and visited a friend in time for tea . |
| 2 | ’ The policy of containment ’ refers to a period between 1946 and 1949 when the Western powers had decided that a stalemate had been reached , with the Soviet Union and that the power of communism had ceased to grow and expand . |
| 3 | But the generally deteriorating economic situation , widening internal differences following the second enlargement of the Community and changes in government ( especially in the UK ) , led to a period between 1981 and 1984 of inactivity in the development of a Community social policy . |
| 4 | In the case of the Caribbean slave communities , this probably took only a short time : for example , we know that the emergence of Sranan Tongo , an English-lexified Creole spoken in the coastal region of Surinam , can be dated with reasonable accuracy to a period between the arrival of the first English slave-owning planters in the middle of the seventeenth century , and their expulsion by the Dutch : a total of less than thirty years . |
| 5 | Stonesfield , with its many stylistic parallels with the Woodchester mosaic , likewise , can be assigned to a period between 300 and 340 . |
| 6 | The European Convention is different in kind , and the British signatories of it , worthy predecessors to the signatories of the Treaty of Brussels in 1972 , put an end to a period of more than four centuries during which no causes have been carried out of this realm . |
| 7 | It led to a period of sharp retrenchment and redundancies , a situation that at the time was very foreign to ICi which had been accustomed to unrestricted expansion in practically everything it undertook . |
| 8 | David Davies treasures some memories from a decade when a Spanish genius inspired British and continental players to a period of unparalleled success |
| 9 | Here the bargaining stage has given way to a period of time when you feel it is just not possible to cope with the situation and the future looks bleak . |
| 10 | We will give every citizen an entitlement to a period of retraining or education at a time of their choice during their adult lives , based on distance learning costs . |
| 11 | But what will be the effect of extending the interval to a period of days or even weeks ? |
| 12 | From the unholy mess that was the latter-day Smiths , to a period of hope and promise . |
| 13 | There was better recognition still to come , adding professional achievement to a period of happiness in his private life . |
| 14 | It belonged to a period of architecture that was both ugly and ornate , and it was fairly covered with scrolls and plaques and turrets and totally unnecessary little balconies . |
| 15 | It would also be a simple matter of alter the ‘ daily ’ timing to a period of more or less than one day . |
| 16 | By contrast , the legends concerning Atlantis and the others refer to a period of time only a few thousand years ago . |
| 17 | Manual workers made up a large proportion of the TUC membership , and the health of many of these was depicted as having been destroyed by their employment ; and , moreover , it was held that all workers had a right to a period of leisure in later life supported by-a full subsistence pension . |
| 18 | Eventually these persons might have to face up to a period of crisis , of self-examination , and so achieve ego-identity by route C. However , foreclosure does offer an escape route and an individual might postpone indefinitely any real self-examination by clinging rigidly to his [ or her ] beliefs and values ( route D ) . |
| 19 | These may correspond to a period of high lake levels found elsewhere in the rift . |
| 20 | Perhaps the majority are right to submit themselves to a period of subliminal absorption . |
| 21 | Given that a detailed examination of every transaction of a business is impossible , auditing concentrates on a sample confined to a period of time or to a type of transaction which is singled out for detailed examination . |
| 22 | By notice of appeal dated 26 February 1991 Mr. Pegg appealed against that refusal on the grounds that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in rejecting the proposition that it would be Wednesbury unreasonable for the Secretary of State to fix Mr. Pegg 's tariff ( as a person serving a mandatory term of life imprisonment ) by reference to a period of retribution and deterrence which was higher than that recommended by the judiciary ; ( 2 ) in rejecting submissions that the tariff procedure was in breach of procedural propriety in that the court considered itself bound by the wrong decision of Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 ; and ( 3 ) in rejecting submissions that the decision to refuse his petition should be quashed and viewing that the tariff belonged solely to the Secretary of State to determine . |
| 23 | His resolve had been to give himself up every evening to a period of deep meditation . |
| 24 | However , the licensee 's liability is in fact limited to a period of 10 years . |
| 25 | The information recorded on the birth certificate refers to one point in time — when the child 's birth was registered — whereas the information reported at interview refers to a period of employment of three months or longer , at any time from three years before the child 's birth up until diagnosis . |
| 26 | In N. emarginata , it appears from initial observations that storage of viable sperm is limited to a period of two or three months . |
| 27 | The War of the Spanish Succession is the name given to a period of European conflict from 1701 to 1714 , fought between Britain , Austria . |
| 28 | From April 1993 , it will be subject to a period of consultation prior to implementation in the UK . |
| 29 | If a company can limit its interruption claim to a period of three months rather than three years , it could expect a premium reduction of between 25 and 50 per cent . |
| 30 | Er , colleagues , before we turn to a period of , er , rule amendments and general motions , could I just advise congress that a pair of spectacles have been handed in er , Vision Express , look like , well they could be ladies or gents , multi-sexual these days , colleagues . |