Example sentences of "for [adj] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report states that ‘ the directors are required by UK company law to prepare financial statements for each financial period which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the group as at the end of the financial period . |
| 2 | The observer was asked to move through the wood of his choice at a fixed speed , dividing the time spent into units of 10 minutes each and recording for each 10-minute period all the birds seen or heard , normally within a band of 50 yards ( 46 metres ) from the observer . |
| 3 | For that first period , Mr claims a sum of seventeen thousand eight hundred and five pounds worked out on an hourly basis . |
| 4 | Indeed she was asked to stay away from work for that remaining period . |
| 5 | You have to , because , how can you be busy for that entire period of time ? |
| 6 | When you find you have only a few hours to spare you can choose the best swim for that particular period . |
| 7 | A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse . |
| 8 | He is stable and , all being well , will remain so for some considerable period of time.5 The motive for turning off the ventilator in this situation may be evil , or it may be good , as , for example , in the case of involuntary euthanasia intended to bring about an end to misery and suffering . |
| 9 | It is in both the firm 's and the consumer s interests that this is for some extended period : in the case of the latter because search costs ( presumably ) are finite and so will not be worth incurring if there is only some probability of finding low prices , unless the benefits are substantial . |
| 10 | The matter may be looked at retrospectively ( ie where the partner has been unable to work for some defined period or periods ) or prospectively ( where it has become apparent that the partner 's health has failed and will not improve ) . |
| 11 | A demise for years is a contract for the exclusive possession and profit of land for some determinate period . |
| 12 | This letter detector remains active for some brief period of time , until the pattern mask is presented . |
| 13 | Retained within the warmth of her body for this extra period , the chick within the egg has already begun to develop . |
| 14 | But I stress that this is a negative agreement — B by agreeing not to negotiate for this fixed period with a third party , locks himself out of such negotiations . |
| 15 | The Immigration Officer refused , saying : ‘ I am not satisfied that you are genuinely seeking entry only for this limited period . ’ |
| 16 | May I help you by suggesting that if you could persuade the Prime Minister to fix the election date now there would be no need for this pre-election period — if the Prime Minister would stop shilly-shallying because he is afraid of going to the country . |
| 17 | Joe decides to draw up a profit and loss account for this initial period . |
| 18 | Neither of them , for this brief period , have anything else to do except to transfer fuel from one to the other . |
| 19 | Well I did n't because I just could n't be bothered to put the oven on to get as hot as that for such short period of time . |
| 20 | You could n't hope for a clearer sign of how things have changed in new music over the last decade or so than the sight of five eminent young , or young-ish , British composers applying their ingenuity to the art of writing divertimentos ( two of them even opting for late eighteenth-century period instrument ensembles ) as curtain raisers for last year 's Glyndebourne Mozart performances ( the promised Don Giovanni serenade by Oliver Knussen never materialized ) . |
| 21 | All pupils in S1 and S2 have Chemistry for one double period per week . |
| 22 | Dai Jones remembers her single-mindedness being focused for one brief period on the need for stainless steel buttons on blouses . |
| 23 | People who come into frequent contact with domestic animals may become transiently infected but the symptoms do not last for any appreciable period . |
| 24 | subsequently , the announcement of the Company 's final and interim results to the London Stock Exchange for any financial period |
| 25 | Only a handful of letters for these years have been preserved ; fewer than for any similar period of his later life . |
| 26 | If it does so the provisions of section 80A apply instead of those in subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) of section 80 and the authority can be given for any fixed period or indefinitely though it can be revoked at any time . |
| 27 | After this time they were never really separated for any long period , and the course of Dorothy 's life can be regarded as the same as Wordsworth 's . |
| 28 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 29 | Were the organisation to make a profit for any particular period of accounts , would it be liable to pay income tax , or would this be a matter for negotiation with the Inland Revenue ? |
| 30 | What is not rubbish is that an attempt to operate modern cars on low octane fuel for any extended period of time is likely to have very severe consequences for the engine . |