Example sentences of "during a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Metropolitan Police study conducted during a three-month period in 1979 found that 0.4 per cent of detainees were held for seventy-two hours or more . |
| 2 | A tribunal can not consider an unfair dismissal complaint unless it is presented during a three-month period beginning with the effective date of termination . |
| 3 | In mildly hypertensive non-insulin-dependent patients a recent controlled study using an intended diet shown in Table 3.4 lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure , improved glycaemic control and reduced weight during a three-month period ( Dodson et al , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | Homosexuality between consenting adults aged 21 or over , and abortion during a certain period of pregnancy , are not criminal offences at present , although they have been in the past . |
| 5 | Full employment Gross domestic product is a measure of the money value of the goods and services produced in the economy during a certain period of time . |
| 6 | The usual system is for the client to say how much he will spend as a working budget during a certain period of time . |
| 7 | We are lucky enough to be living during a warm period ( interglacial ) of this ice age , but our luck can not last forever ; at some time during the next few thousand , few hundred or even just few years the next cold period ( glacial ) will commence unless humanity 's pollution contributes so much to the greenhouse effect that global warming prevents the glaciers from spreading . |
| 8 | An early version of the alternative doctrine polygeny , according to which the global category consists of a set of quite separate races of quite distinct historical origin and wholly different psychological attributes was advanced by Paracelsus in 1520 , but of much greater significance for the history of anthropology is the fact that , during a critical period between 1 850 and 1 870 , polygeny was the dominant orthodoxy in scientific circles throughout Europe and America . |
| 9 | During a five-week period in Lent he gave 19 concerts , some at the homes of aristocrats such as Count Johann Esterházy and the Russian Ambassador , Prince Golitsin , and some privately organized by himself . |
| 10 | The bill introduced last year by the Flemish senator Herman Suykerbuyk , and based on the French ‘ loi Lang ’ , proposes that discounts should be limited to 5% during a two-year period following the publication of a book . |
| 11 | For the most part they are only likely to be occupied during a limited period each year by a number of different families . |
| 12 | The former Clipstone Colliery linesman had his progress impeded by a string of top-class seamers during a frustrating period on the Nottinghamshire staff , and considered quitting the game before Ken Higgs recruited him for Leicestershire in 1990 . |
| 13 | The court had heard that the Davies family had kept animals for years without any problems , but the dogs neglect happened during a traumatic period when one of Mr Davies ' daughters died from an illness . |
| 14 | Throughout her marriage , and during a long period as a single parent , she was a journalist , editing magazines such as Honey , Over 21 , and Working Woman , as well as being Woman 's Page Editor on the Sunday Times and The Independent . |
| 15 | Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change . |
| 16 | It is fortunately in the hands of such a man as Captain Vidal , R.N. , who has steadily devoted himself , during a long period of ill-health , to complete this unpopular work , and to connect with it a minute examination of the Canary Islands . ’ |
| 17 | Many of the submerged banks and the bottoms of the lagoons of the atolls seem to be at a remarkably uniform depth , as one would expect if they represent an important phase of planation during a long period of preglacial stability . |
| 18 | The last degenerate remnant of this fauna , which migrated across the Sahara during a wetter period , was the small Carthaginian elephant . |
| 19 | Count Mandred , the acclaimed defeater of the Skaven , was elected Emperor and his respected generalship and charismatic personality held the Empire together during a vulnerable period of recovery . |
| 20 | Imprinting , as I remarked earlier , illustrates the principle of ‘ sensitive periods ’ ; it is usually established during a specific period early in the animal 's life . |
| 21 | Ernest Coveley , 36 , escaped with £9,205 from building societies in London during a two-month period . |
| 22 | According to US figures on June 7 , up to 6,700 Iraqi refugees , mostly children under five , had died during a two-month period in mountain camps along the Turkish border . |
| 23 | Four child patients had died and nine others suffered mysterious heart attacks or respiratory failures during a two-month period in 1991 when Allitt had been a nurse at the hospital . |
| 24 | During a transitional period , which ended in 1987 , accountants holding recognised auditing qualifications from any EC country could apply to become qualified auditors ( reviseurs d'entreprises ) in Luxembourg without being required to pass any supplementary examinations in Luxembourg . |
| 25 | They included a sweeping revision of the Internal Security Act so as to end detention without trial , as provided for in the " Pretoria Minute " agreement between the government and the ANC in August 1990 [ see p. 37642 ] ; a proposal to offer Cabinet seats to blacks during a transitional period while a new constitution was being negotiated ; the appointment of a neutral chairman of the constitutional conference ; and the appointment of an independent judge or jurist to investigate incidents of violence . |
| 26 | Walesa , addressing his former workmates at the Gdansk shipyard on June 3 , stated that he advocated rule by decree during a transitional period but that parliament opposed this . |
| 27 | Patients received a mean of 1.2 U of packed red blood cells ( SD=2 ) and they were in hospital during a mean period of 7.4 days ( SD=3.6 ) ( Tables II and III ) . |
| 28 | During a five-year period up to 30 September 1703 the occupations of 763 of the 902 recorded townsmen are given in the baptism and burial registers . |
| 29 | But according to a report by an observer from the US National Marine Fisheries Service , during a 6-week period in summer 1986 , a single Japanese squid vessel working in Alaskan waters killed 53 dolphins and porpoises and 14 fur seals by entanglement in its nets . |
| 30 | I later realized that I had posed during a crucial period , and the tiny bronzes that resulted ( for that size prevailed ) continue daily to touch me . |