Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examination of the debate on Buxton 's resolutions for gradual emancipation of 15 May 1823 , of his resolution for parliament to take up general emancipation of 15 April 1831 ( the resolution was interpreted in the debate by other speakers as being immediatist ) and , more briefly , of the debate on Stanley 's government resolutions for emancipation followed by a period of apprenticeship of 14 May 1833 indicates a clear shift to acceptance of abolitionist assumptions . |
| 2 | The amounts shown above include regular and final bonuses achieved during a period where at times rates of interest and capital appreciation have been high . |
| 3 | In addition , the proffered certainties of Calvinism had great appeal for the many men and women who were suffering from the dislocation and anxiety produced by a period of unpredictable economic development and rapid social change . |
| 4 | By talking about Renaissance texts , or more accurately texts produced during a period defined by current readers as the Renaissance , we are attempting to provide a type of structure ( how language operated in a defined period ) which deconstruction , in some purist sense , would argue is to miss the point of how language acts as a supplement . |
| 5 | The data collection coincided with a period of increasing structural tensions associated with a period of increasing structural tensions associated with reorganisations and amalgamations due to a re-unifying Germany . |
| 6 | It stands in gardens landscaped over a period of two years ( which were designed to ensure an array of colours and scents throughout the year ) , and woodlands resplendent with over one hundred species of trees and shrubs , the home of owls , badgers , green woodpeckers , pheasants and foxes . |
| 7 | The Club also owned the auditors £400 accumulated over a period . |
| 8 | He recalled the desire for leisure which even the most serious and industrious of workers experienced after a period of constant application , impelling them to " indulge in idleness " . |
| 9 | For a group of five organisations monitored over a period of 13 to 18 weeks the hidden , uninsured costs of accidents at work were identified as 8 to 36 times larger than the insured costs . |
| 10 | The War of the Spanish Succession is the name given to a period of European conflict from 1701 to 1714 , fought between Britain , Austria . |
| 11 | Given that a detailed examination of every transaction of a business is impossible , auditing concentrates on a sample confined to a period of time or to a type of transaction which is singled out for detailed examination . |
| 12 | ‘ A measure of the extent to which financial resources obtained during a period are sufficient to cover claims incurred during that period against financial resources . |
| 13 | With reference to the article in June on breaking dormancy in sweet peas : experiments conducted over a period of several years at New College , Pontefract certainly seem to bear out Anne Swithinbank 's remarks . |
| 14 | The cost of evening courses or those consisting of a few sessions in a school of nursing cost considerably less than residential week long courses or part-time variations held over a period of several months . |
| 15 | Precedent 3 is a framework agreement governing the continuous supply of goods under a number of orders placed over a period of time . |
| 16 | That these were exceptional arrangements agreed during a period of acute difficulty for the District is revealed in the following table which summarises the provision of Chapter III courses in England and Wales in 1935–36 : |
| 17 | You do n't need to have just one holiday , you could enjoy several up to the value of £5000 spread over a period of one year . |
| 18 | If this assumption is incorrect , if the structure of the model is in fact dependent upon the policies being carried out , then a model of the economy estimated in a period when one set of policies , one policy regime , was in operation will give misleading advice about what to expect under a different policy regime . |
| 19 | It 's the snap-shot of people paid in a period , and it has in it comparisons with the previous quarter , June ninety-three and the previous year , September ninety-two . |
| 20 | This is perhaps just as well , since White 's informative 1985 survey of interlending in the UK found that the percentage of UK requests satisfied within a period of seven days ( from all sources ) had declined from 50% in 1977 to 32% in 1985 . |
| 21 | Over the next twelve months , the Agency will be working intensively with Glasgow companies to ensure they are fit to compete and to handle the particular business challenges presented by a period of growth . |
| 22 | The question , ‘ Why do you have the farm ? ’ often evoked a look of surprise followed by a period of silence . |
| 23 | The league consisted of four leading competitions held over a period of three months at various venues in North Yorkshire on a 10 metres high Enterprises panel wall . |
| 24 | To what extent have ideas , movements and institutions changed over a period of time ( a ) in form ( b ) in substance ? |
| 25 | However , the licensee 's liability is in fact limited to a period of 10 years . |