Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Commons Employment Committee proposes the establishment of a ‘ decade of retirement ’ between the age of 60 and 70 , which would allow people to choose for themselves when they wished to retire over this period of time . |
| 2 | Has it enough working capital to enable it to wait out this period without becoming insolvent ? |
| 3 | Has it enough working capital to enable it to wait out this period without becoming insolvent ? |
| 4 | We might just as well ask why , when we try to recall visually some period in the past , we find in our memory just the few meagre arbitrarily chosen set of snapshots that we do find there , the faded poor souvenirs of passionate moments . |
| 5 | for example , a short recall of the original theme ( perhaps using only one sentence ) would be sufficient if we wanted to continue the theme by introducing yet another period of change . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the Report estimated that the proportion of dependents who were elderly would increase over that period from 12 per cent to nearly a third by 1979 . |