Example sentences of "with a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By an irony of fate , abolition coincided with a period of rising crime , both violent and non-violent , in which Britain shared with most other countries on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 2 | We had chosen our visit to coincide with the full moon , but it also coincided with a period of maximum solar flare activity , and on every clear night the Lights treated us to a spectacular show in green and red . |
| 3 | Many aspects of our environment show a rhythm with a period of 24 hours as a result of this solar day . |
| 4 | The results showed that rhythms with a period of about 24 hours continued and this confirmed the activity of the body clock during the experiment ( fig 2.1 ) . |
| 5 | Some individuals , even when living in normal society , do not remain in synchrony with the 24-hour day and instead free-run with a period of about 25 hours . |
| 6 | According to calculations by Edmund Booth , an earthquake specialist with Ove Arup and Partners , a large firm of consulting engineers based in London , the soft clay under Mexico City ‘ tuned ’ the period of the quake 's ground motion to something near a pure sine wave with a period of 2 seconds . |
| 7 | In the treatment of gonorrhoea with complications , a longer course of antibiotic therapy is needed and this must usually be combined with a period of rest , preferably in bed , preferably alone . |
| 8 | Open and closed questions with a period of miming thrown in . |
| 9 | Tipler 's description of a working time machine is a cylinder with the density of a neutron star , 100 km long and 10 km in radius , rotation twice every millisecond ( New Scientist , vol. 87 , p 654 ) , superficially , such an object would be a lot like a fast pulsar , since pulsars are thought to be rotation neutron stars , but the fastest pulsar known when Tipler made his calculations was the Crab pulsar , with a period of 30 milliseconds . |
| 10 | Since then the spots have come and gone with a period of roughly 11 years . |
| 11 | On a time-scale which may not coincide exactly with our present scientific calculations of geological time , they say that the cycle commences with a period of 1.7 million years when the power of the Life Force is immeasurably stronger and more evident in physical affairs than it is today . |
| 12 | According to Ian Hawkins : ‘ The recession has tested the ability of management to cope with a period of economic downturn deeper and longer than anyone expected , and the venture capitalists ’ ability to negotiate their way through it . |
| 13 | If this flowering season coincides with a period of terrible weather , you could lose the entire crop for that year . |
| 14 | Of course , it is feasible that the Greeks were more sharp-sighted than we are , and certainly their skies were clearer ; but it is equally likely that Merope has dimmed a fair deal over the past few thousand years — in other words , that it is a variable star with a period of at least several thousand years . |
| 15 | He described human infants as being likely to experience problems in the regulation of breathing , such as those associated with the sudden infant death syndrome , because their anatomical and neurological immaturity coincides with a period of change that is specific to humans , that of the acquisition and use of language . |
| 16 | A massive vein from the upper eastern flank has a U-series age of 13311kyr , contemporaneous with a period of high lake levels . |
| 17 | Interaction usually begins with a period of eye contact which appears to signal from me to you ( and vice versa ) that we are ready to relate . |
| 18 | R Aræ , in the same × 7 field with Zeta and Eta , is an Algol-type eclipsing binary with a period of 4.4 days . |
| 19 | Alpha , of course , is the nearest of all the bright stars , at a mere 4.3 light-years ; it is a fine binary with a period of 80 years , but the components are too close to be split with binoculars . |
| 20 | Here we have another S-type Mira variable , with a period of 407 days . |
| 21 | U , of spectral type M , appears to be irregular , with a range of from 5.6 to 7.5 ; EU ranges from 6.0 to 6.9 , and is also of type M. It is said to be semi-regular , with a period of around 60 days , but I have never been at all confident about this . |
| 22 | In the same × 7 field is R Leporis , of spectral type N , a Mira variable with a period of 432 days . |
| 23 | The brightest is RR , a Mira-type star with a period of 279 days . |
| 24 | The widespread acceptance of floating exchange rates has been associated with a period of less favourable economic developments , such as massive payments imbalances arising from large but often irregular oil prices increases , declining commodity prices ( which seriously affect less developed economies ) , high interest rates during the 1980s ( which worsened the debt position of many countries ) , and lower average economic growth compared with the Bretton Woods era . |
| 25 | Unable to accept concessions in negotiation , Law now saw much the same deal offered in public by the Liberals themselves , when Asquith announced an Amending Bill to satisfy Ulster 's fears of Home Rule with a period of exclusion . |
| 26 | ‘ In respect of all the applicants , a declaration that in carrying out his announced policy under and in relation to section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 in respect of persons serving sentences of life imprisonment imposed in the discretion of the trial judge , the Secretary of State for the Home Department , in determining for how long such a person ought to be detained for punitive purposes should fix the date of the first review by the local review committee and the Parole Board strictly in accordance with a period of detention ( that is to say , the notional determinate sentence less one-third remission ) recommended by the judiciary as necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 27 | ‘ the Secretary of State for the Home Department , in determining for how long … a person ought to be detained for punitive purposes , should fix the date of the first review by the local review committee and the Parole Board strictly in accordance with a period of detention … recommended by the judiciary as necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 28 | As elsewhere in Europe , the Reformation in Slovenia coincided with a period of social unrest which was characterised by a number of peasant revolts . |
| 29 | This incentive , combined with a period of cost containment in which public hospital funding from state and federal governments has been under increasing pressure , has created even more of a temptation to attract privately funded patients in preference to patients solely supported by public funds . |
| 30 | Clearly this is consistent both with a period of about a day and with a very long period . |