Example sentences of "for a brief period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast with the previous case , where it was thought necessary to stop medication at the beginning of treatment , this woman clearly benefited from the introduction of a hypnotic for a brief period of time . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , there is sometimes resistance among staff on inpatient units to admitting patients who may not be suffering from psychiatric illness , but who for a brief period of time need to hand over responsibility for their well-being to the inpatient clinical team . |
| 3 | An agreed formula provided for a brief period of UN control before Indonesia moved in , early in 1963 . |
| 4 | He was a guy who could be something for a brief period of time and then he vanished like the spirit he was impersonating . |
| 5 | For a brief period of one year , 1977-1978 , the Labour government of James Callaghan entered into a Pact with the Liberal parliamentary party : in return for voting support in the House of Commons ( necessary to maintain its majority ) , the government modified certain policies of its own and introduced certain measures favored by the Liberals . |
| 6 | After the war , many of the type served for a brief period with RCN reservist units until they were all struck off charge in 1947 . |
| 7 | This situation has not led to a decline in enrolments : except for a brief period at the beginning of the crisis , the demand for education has been sustained . |
| 8 | It seems , therefore , that the Burgundians should be seen as a largely catholic people , but that for a brief period under Gundobad they had an arian Church . |
| 9 | Once the eggs have hatched the tiny fry are without parental care and become free swimming for a brief period during which time they must find their own host anemone . |
| 10 | However , this outlay can easily be offset by letting the apartment out for a brief period during the peak season . |
| 11 | He retired from medicine in 1930 , although for a brief period during World War II he acted as locum for a Cambridge doctor who had joined up . |
| 12 | By sheer grace God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world … . |
| 13 | For a brief period in the province 's history , its affairs became entwined in the broader struggles for the monarchy . |
| 14 | The excavations , a joint venture between British and Italian authorities ( Provincia d'Isernia ) and directed for the last twelve years by the School 's director , Dr Richard Hodges , have shown that for a brief period in the early ninth century San Vincenzo was an exceptional place with far-flung connections . |
| 15 | For a brief period in the Spring of 1987 , London was the only English metropolitan centre with more than one evening daily paper — it had three — having endured five years when only one , the Standard , was published . |
| 16 | He has been Professor of Architecture at the University of Belgrade , and was also for a brief period in the early 1980s the Mayor of the city . |
| 17 | Britain firmly and — except for a brief period in March 1951 — consistently advocated the conclusion of an early peace treaty . |
| 18 | This is apparent in the emergence of the physical disk of the sun as Aten , first named as such in the Middle Kingdom , to the status of a great god for a brief period in the Eighteenth Dynasty . |
| 19 | Except for a brief period in September and October when prices threatened to fall to below $400 , platinum remained close to $500 an ounce for much of the year . |
| 20 | Except for a brief period in August , rubber prices were in decline despite falling stocks and low output in Malaysia . |
| 21 | For a brief period after his accession Henry VII allowed the old Exchequer system to revive ; but from about 1493 he reverted to the methods of his immediate predecessors . |