Example sentences of "an [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All industrial countries have experienced such a transition from high to low birth- and death-rates in the last century , usually ( except in France ) with an intervening period of moderate population growth when the death-rate falls before the birth-rate . |
| 2 | Bush characterized the Gulf crisis as " a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of co-operation " . |
| 3 | We can not , therefore , feel surprised that Professor Coleman , beset by so many obstacles in that particular branch of our art , and having arrived at an advanced period of life , could not fling himself into its pursuit ; nor was it reasonable to expect it from him ’ . |
| 4 | After serving as US permanent representative at the UN , Young had spent two terms as mayor of Atlanta , an eight-year period during which the city had been transformed into a magnet for domestic and foreign investment and had become a symbol of the " New South " . |
| 5 | There followed an awful period of nearly a year when she was unemployed , searching the back pages of the Times Higher Education Supplement in vain every week for lectureships in nineteenth-century English Literature . |
| 6 | First , s/he must do so if the pupil is to be excluded for an aggregate period of more than five days in any term , or if the pupil 's exclusion will mean that s/he misses an opportunity to take a public examination which s/he was going to take . |
| 7 | If the pupil has been excluded for an aggregate period of more than five days in any term or will miss an opportunity to take an examination as a result of his/her exclusion , the governors may order his reinstatement and the head has to comply . |
| 8 | It was an odd period in music . |
| 9 | It was the ECSC experience which had occasioned the acceptance for an interim period of a change in the relationship between the supranational element and the member governments . |
| 10 | These negotiations would work towards the conclusion of a two-phase agreement in which Palestinians would first have an interim period of self-rule before negotiating a final settlement with Israel . |
| 11 | GEMA organized and led the ‘ Change the Constitution ’ movement which had as its objective the prevention of the vice-president taking power in an interim period before an election , and which came to dominate party politics in the mid 1970s . |
| 12 | Capitalism , if the labour market was to operate , needed a workforce which was both mobile and wage responsive , and this meant an interim period in which old forms of control were eroded before newer and more appropriate forms of social and industrial control had fully emerged to take their place . |
| 13 | Movements of base level are of the utmost importance in understanding landforms in most parts of the world , for the earth 's surface is in an unstable period of its history . |
| 14 | The light waves emitted from the surface of the star between 10:59:59 and 11:00 , by the astronaut 's watch , would be spread out over an infinite period of time , as seen from the spaceship . |
| 15 | Although she decided , after an agonizing period of inward questioning , to continue with the pregnancy , it led her and her husband to reject their rigid moral position : ‘ We will never pressure any woman not to have an abortion . |
| 16 | ( 1 ) Do not study for an extended period on one subject . |
| 17 | Yet British Rail says that it will have to offer temporary rehousing for an extended period to many people who will be next door to the works because of the extent and nature of the noise and vibration that they will experience . |
| 18 | Movement from the centralities of ‘ real polising ’ in uniform , via the CID , into the marginal fringes of an extended period of drug squad work , had a profound influence on the absolute tenets of policing I had absorbed over the previous decade . |
| 19 | These do not exist in the hops and must be converted from precursor a acids which are present by an extended period of boiling . |
| 20 | They apply to the justification of the use of public power over a range of issues , for an extended period of time . |
| 21 | It was noted above that for an extended period of our history crime was actually falling . |
| 22 | The sandwich principle , co-operative education and industrial or clinical placement are different terms for essentially the same thing : an extended period of work experience which is built into courses of study and by which students gain knowledge of current working practices and new developments in industry and the professions . |
| 23 | Between 1736 and 1738 Ramsay journeyed to Italy for an extended period of study , training under Francesco Imperiale in Rome and Francesco Solimena in Naples . |
| 24 | During an extended period of wandering in the sky world , Litaw met Inabay , who gave him some dust from her eyes . |
| 25 | One of the purposes of an extended period of single-sex science teaching might be to let teachers see how girls approach scientific matters , and to discover , what may well be the case , that girls are just as capable of ‘ scientific thinking ’ as boys . |
| 26 | Previously , investigations like this had been done mainly from the outsider 's point of view , and it was men like Evans-Pritchard ( 1902–73 ) , Radcliffe-Brown ( 1881–1955 ) , and , particularly , Malinowski ( 1884–1942 ) , who determined that the only really effective way of understanding the way of life of these peoples was to go and live among them for an extended period of time , learning their language , and becoming accepted as a member of their social groups . |
| 27 | P. J. Lawless ( unpublished work ) suggested that it might imply an extended period of volcanic activity , but if the low-temperature mica age is correct , the older age for the zircon megacrysts can be reinterpreted as the true mean age of their formation , close to but significantly before eruption . |
| 28 | Other freeholders , however , were less career-motivated , and often showed considerable loyalty to a particular political interest over an extended period of time , and as a generalisation it might be suggested that they were less likely to jump from one interest to another than were the lawyers with judicial preferment in mind . |
| 29 | Miller observed that penal institutions ‘ can not sustain their decency over an extended period of time . |
| 30 | After an extended period of neglect the decorative arts in Rome are about to have new homes . |