Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Priddle and Heywood ( 1980 ) regard antarctic lakes as forming an evolutionary series which has developed over the period of about 20 000 years since the ice-sheet was maximal ; this is in any case a convenient way of describing them . |
| 2 | Its share of total industrial activity has varied over the period but the figures for the late 1960s are representative . |
| 3 | Does he further agree that the time has come for a period of consolidation ? |
| 4 | This study examines specific resources — various types of labour , capital and materials — used by the hospital sector to quantify the degree of substitution that has occurred over the period 1951 to 1981 . |
| 5 | Answer guide : To provide a guide to the way in which a business has performed over a period of time . |
| 6 | Indeed this emphasis has persisted into a period where , in the new media , large-scale organizations are in fact available for analysis . |
| 7 | In the case of the urban riots , it is the nature of the television coverage which is in essence inciting other young people in different parts of the country to civil disobedience , whereas in the case of football violence , the implication is that the perceived lack of moral leadership by the broadcasting corporations has led over a period of years to a general moral climate in this country which fails to provide adequate controls over the behaviour of the nation 's youth . |
| 8 | An examination of Figure 6.1 reveals that , whilst each of the groups considered has gained over the period 1979 — 89 ( due to the tax and benefit changes discussed above ) , the greatest gain was made by the richest tenth of the population . |
| 9 | However , it is clear that the divergence between the North and the South has widened during the period 1981 — 7 ( see Figure 9.5 ) . |
| 10 | There is general agreement among the writers on this subject and in the media that the divergence between North and South has widened during the period of Conservative government . |
| 11 | the failure has continued for a period of , or periods amounting to , at least five years , |
| 12 | Our sub-leasing of of surplus retail area has continued in the period and combined with a small programme of retail park developments will enable our retail area grow , sorry will enable our rental income to grow . |
| 13 | It has to be admitted that the railway has passed through a period of financial difficulty but now appears to be settled and operating a successful service of trains . |
| 14 | CHESAPEAKE BAY Has created over a period of about 17000 years . |
| 15 | The following fall into this category : ( i ) step-parents ; ( ii ) anyone with whom the child has lived for a period of three years within the last five ; the relevant period of three years need not be continuous but must not have ended more than three months before the application is made ; ( iii ) where the child is in care , anyone who has the consent of the local authority ; ( iv ) where the child is not in care , anyone who has the consent of each person with parental responsibility for the child . |
| 16 | My belief is that our good practice has evolved over a period of more than 50 years and that it has developed in classrooms through the dedicated expertise of British teachers enjoying the relative freedom traditionally allowed within our education system . |
| 17 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
| 18 | The figures below show how credit use has changed over the period covered by these three surveys . |
| 19 | For example , one-quarter of women aged 16–34 getting married in the period 1979–82 lived with their husbands before marriage , while the corresponding proportion for those married between 1970 and 1974 was only 8 per cent . |
| 20 | The region of interest later became focused on the period from the top of the backswing to shortly after the impact with the ball . |
| 21 | Allowance will be made for the early payment of a lump sum to the employer which he would have earned over a period of time . |
| 22 | In an attempt to find a model of the universe in which many different initial configurations could have evolved to something like the present universe , a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Alan Guth , suggested that the early universe might have gone through a period of very rapid expansion . |
| 23 | One correspondent notes that , having gone through a period of using much folk music and guitar accompaniment , ‘ this phase seems to be declining in some places ’ . |
| 24 | This project is for a one year study into pay determination processes in the UK in manufacturing industry , and in particular to examine the effect of bargaining structure and how this may have changed in the period 1979-1985 . |
| 25 | People 's eating habits and food preferences are learned ; they are habits that become ingrained over a period of years . |
| 26 | In some set-piece frescoes , life-sized figures of men , bulls , and griffins were moulded in low relief ; this seems to have happened in the period 1550–1470 BC , but not later . |
| 27 | Both books display Minton 's effervescent gaiety , but , even before his illustrations became overlaid with a period nostalgia an undertow of sadness could be discerned beneath their cheerful manner . |
| 28 | This opinion was consistent with the opinion which Mr. Tinker had formed while the deceased was at Samuel Saye House and that Dr. Rao had formed in the period before the deceased 's death . |
| 29 | Arran accepted the inevitable , and made way for Mary of Guise , in return for various financial inducements for himself and his family , and a discharge securing him from any actions against him for anything he had done during the period of his regency . |
| 30 | Because of the common frontier between the two countries , and also because of considerable French economic interests which had grown during the period of the Second Empire , whatever happened on the far side of the Pyrenees could not be ignored by the government in Paris . |