Example sentences of "work [prep] a period " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If you are going to be away from work for a period in the future , you will have to pay the full rate when you return to paid employment , so it might be as well to start now , and build up the maximum benefit . |
| 2 | Difficulties in returning to work after a period out of the labour market are particularly likely to be experienced by older women : |
| 3 | As Heather Joshi has estimated ( see Chapter 8 here ) , women returning to work after a period caring for children or at a later stage of the life cycle are likely to re-enter the labour market at lower rates of pay . |
| 4 | The painting is another brooding , haunted work from a period with worldwide , cross- cultural appeal . |
| 5 | And I believe er , at this meeting it was revealed that Scottish Homes had received a tender from the West Lothian District Council for this work over a period of ten years for a figure which comes to four hundred thousand pound which , apparently , was the cheapest tender ! |
| 6 | This was a development which of course took place in Picasso 's work over a period of many months . |
| 7 | The research is therefore intended to contribute to this theoretical debate and , in drawing on field work over a period of nearly twenty years , to consider critically the applicability of ideas like discourse to a particular ethnographic case . |
| 8 | Expelled from school at fifteen , she had found herselfstarting work at a period of full employment . |