Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.

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1 Fibrous tissue replaces this , the capillaries heal and contract down over a period of months to leave a linear scar .
2 Such investigators as Rowntree , A. L. Bowley and L. Chiozza Money demonstrated that the disparity between rich and poor and the proportion of the population living in severe poverty changed little over the period .
3 As was intimated in the introduction , although there is little evidence to suggest that sexual behaviour changed greatly in the period , the feeling remained for many people at the time that this was nevertheless what was happening .
4 If cimetidine ( or the hypochlorhydric condition it creates ) as in fact carcinogenic to the gastric mucosa , gastric cancer incidence should be expected to increase only after a period of time after initiation of treatment .
5 The table and chairs and windowboxes all fit in with the period of the house .
6 The solution was to add a form of the hormone progesterone so that the lining was shed not as a period but as an artificial withdrawal bleed .
7 After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries .
8 I have looked carefully over a period of weeks at those applications , and have reached the view that they deserve to be granted .
9 He also said he is ‘ very optimistic ’ about the NCR computer division , where orders from Europe recently have picked up after a period of extreme softness .
10 For instance , building-society deposits , bank cash accounts , and National Savings holdings all rose sharply throughout the period , especially with high interest rates prevailing for almost the whole of the 1970s .
11 What has changed , and changed radically over the period from the late 1960s to the early 1980s , has been the perception of that culture .
12 The Crucible , the play which showed the clear parallel between the McCarthy mentality and the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 , was perhaps the only enduring work of art to come out of the period .
13 The work was carried out during the period 1980–1 and the existing building construction was found to be generally in good condition .
14 WORLD FERTILITY SURVEY ; an international research programme carried out during the period of 1972–1984 , undertaken by the International Statistical Institute with the collaboration of the United Nations and in co-operation with the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population .
15 Bargaining is often carried out over a period of days , so it 's fortunate that a four- night B&B break at a three-star hotel near the market , is £219 in February and March .
16 The refurbishment scheme ‘ A Good Place to Live ’ will be carried out over a period of five years .
17 If this is carried out after a period of exercise your dog may readily remain in this position since it may be relatively tired .
18 In brief , requisitioning was unpopular , not least since it was often carried out in the period between spring and autumn when trading and fishing conditions might normally be expected to be better than at other times of the year .
19 The relationship between fertility rates and mortality rates has created a population structure which has varied substantially during the period in question .
20 There is nothing to suggest that the rural economy was anything but generalised , with evidence for specialisation appearing late in the period .
21 For light to work by at the period concerned , a miner had only a small coffee-pot shaped metal oil lamp with a wick protruding from the spout .
22 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 .
23 In the area we are particularly concerned with , southwest Cumbria , male cancer rates rose significantly from the period 1969–73 to the period 1974–78 .
24 William Cobbet passed through during the period of expansion , and hated it !
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek .
28 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
29 They had done so after a period of co-operation and consultation with East Germany which looks in retrospect like a laying of the groundwork for what was to come in both Germanys .
30 Where the County Court grants a new lease to the tenant it may do so for a period not exceeding 14 years .
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