Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elementals often appear as a moving light or a change in temperature , or they may take the form of an animal or bird and make it behave oddly for a period of time . |
| 2 | A client is not easily detached from a solicitor who has been handling his affairs over a period of years , but a comparatively mild solicitation may deprive an insurance broker of valuable business which otherwise might safely be reckoned on for a period . |
| 3 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 4 | I just certain , satisfy certain erm cattle requirements and carry on business in the sugar trade and of must done so for a period of time , I 'm looking at this , the third page in , top of the page , erm trade in office in London established without purpose erm now those the |
| 5 | Where the County Court grants a new lease to the tenant it may do so for a period not exceeding 14 years . |
| 6 | Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back . |
| 7 | These Accounts are drawn up for a period of 52 weeks ended on 27th March 1993 and the comparative figures stated are in respect of a period of 52 weeks ended on 28th March 1992 . |
| 8 | Is the Minister aware that , by 9 January , Bir Zeit university will have been closed continuously for a period of four years and that a generation of young Palestinians will have been denied the right to higher education , which is surely one of the basic fundamental human rights ? |
| 9 | After at least 3 weeks the intervention programme should stop and the baselines be measured again for a period of one week . |
| 10 | Most fieldwork is simply episodic , made by an outsider moving in for a period to assess observed social behaviour . |
| 11 | They will try harder for a period until they realize that this strategy no longer works . |
| 12 | Eight patients of group 1 and seven patients of group 2 were followed up for a period of >3 years ( mean follow up 47 ( range 37–60 ) months for both groups ) . |
| 13 | Babies who for surgical reasons can not feed orally for a period can be helped with opportunities for non-nutritive sucking on dummies ( Bernbaum et al . |
| 14 | Using a pre-set timer , the lights can be set to stay on for a period from 25 seconds to 12 minutes . |
| 15 | Design a chart the parents can fill in for a period of one week . |
| 16 | They may also trade commercially for a period not exceeding 13 weeks , during the course of their ACE employment . |
| 17 | I understand that all the counterfoils and voting slips cast are kept securely for a period after an election until they are eventually destroyed . |
| 18 | He was very soon found to be a satisfactory workman , and was engaged initially for a period of 2 years . |
| 19 | Caducius had been found by Alexander McKenn and Maurice Harknett in the 1960s and dived on for a period of time before being forgotten . |
| 20 | A statement that the buildings in Old Aberdeen are beautiful is embedded within an assertion that the speaker was recently in Old Aberdeen , and stayed there for a period , and so she has a warrant for making the statement . |