Example sentences of "[noun] during a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual system is for the client to say how much he will spend as a working budget during a certain period of time . |
| 2 | This undoubtedly cushioned the Club during a difficult period . |
| 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 | There is an average number of accesses during a specified period of about sixty-five . |
| 5 | Economic income is simply the maximum amount of real income that can be consumed out of real wealth during a given period without impairing the ability of that stock of real wealth to deliver real income and hence real consumption in the future . |
| 6 | He could also have taken into account , if he was aware of it , that the effect of requiring an undertaking in damages from the council would be to cause the collapse of the law enforcement process in this area of law ; and further that the enforcement of the law was not merely desirable as such in the public interest , but that small retailers could well suffer if large retailers such as Wickes were able to continue to trade with impunity during a significant period in contravention of what might well prove to be a perfectly valid law . |
| 7 | It will all end up in those grim audio-visual departments where it will eventually be auctioned off for peanuts during a cost-saving period . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As a rule the advances occurred either when she was alone with one or other teacher during a free period , or in the time between the end of school and the journey home . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As illustrated in Figure 3. 1 , the total number of heroin users in a community during a one-year period ( annual prevalence ) is analogous to the level of water in a sink . |
| 12 | A certain degree of depression regularly accompanies serious physical illness ( Greer , 1985 ) , and one in four working-class women with at least three young children at home experience clinical depression at some point during a one-year period ( Brown and Harris , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | takes place during a particular period and in a particular environment . |
| 14 | The printing of De revolutionibus took place during a tense period when the freedom of Protestants and the independence of Nuremberg were being threatened by Catholic authorities . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The teacher 's relation with a child is much more intense and long-lasting than for a teacher of a normal child , since they will be together in close contact during a longer period of growth . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ We want any witnesses during a vital period to contact us immediately . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Second , a study of problem drug users known to eight agencies in the South Tyneside area during a six-month period in 1981 ( Pattison et al .1982 ) produced an estimated annual prevalence rate of 1.2 known opioid users per 1,000 of the adult population , compared to about 5 per 1,000 in Wirral . |
| 21 | The theoretical and empirical analysis of stock markets is based on the use of a rate of return to measure the benefits from holding an asset during a specified period . |
| 22 | Experiments in which young salmon have been transferred from their stream of birth , to be released in another stream , have been used as evidence that salmon imprint on the smell of their river during a sensitive period just before they migrate downstream . |
| 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 | This was because car manufacturers gave retailers bonus payments if there were sufficient new registrations during a given period . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Ernest Coveley , 36 , escaped with £9,205 from building societies in London during a two-month period . |
| 27 | In the 1950s he bought the major share of Universal Pictures , which he steered to good fortune during a difficult period , with movies featuring such stars as Cary Grant , James Stewart and Doris Day . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The last degenerate remnant of this fauna , which migrated across the Sahara during a wetter period , was the small Carthaginian elephant . |
| 30 | 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 . |