Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throwing Muses are one of a handful of groups who write about adolescence as a period of maladjustment and withdrawal , who resist the now-pop version of youth as healthy , extrovert , unproblematic hedonism . |
| 2 | Records of public weighings must be retained for inspection for a period of at least two years . |
| 3 | Biennially at the Annual General Meeting four members of the Executive Committee shall retire and shall not become eligible for re-election within a period of two years . |
| 4 | Annually at the Annual General Meeting three members of the Executive Committee shall retire and shall not become eligible for re-election within a period of one year . |
| 5 | Biennially at the Annual General Meeting four members of the Executive Committee shall retire and shall not become eligible for re-election within a period of two years . |
| 6 | While the milk from such farms was declared unfit for sale , farmers were also prevented in most cases from selling their cattle for slaughter for a period of several months . |
| 7 | Most funding agencies are , understandably , unwilling to take on a commitment to pay for research over a period of perhaps twenty years or more . |
| 8 | It is usual to follow patients who have been diagnosed and treated for syphilis for a period of two years to make sure that the treatment is effective and that relapse does not occur . |
| 9 | If you mark your weight on a graph or chart this should provide a clear and rewarding sign of progress over a period of weeks and months . |
| 10 | ‘ This is to certify that Color Serjeant William Nicholl served in the 8th ( or The King 's ) Regiment of Foot for a period of Twenty One Years , during which time he has invariably conducted himself as an honest , trustworthy , sober man — Given under my hand at Plymouth , This 4th day of August 1825 , J. Duffy Lf Col Commg 8th or King 's Reg . ’ |
| 11 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |
| 12 | Chairman can I er suggest to these results of course over a period and I 'd like to see |
| 13 | They have an album of photos showing the house at different stages of completion over a period of 18 months . |
| 14 | Only three subjects had a feeling of wind before a period of intermittent need for defecation . |
| 15 | Like Brooke-Rose , Spark began writing fiction as a form of therapy after a period of psychological strain ( Stanford 1963:62 ) . |
| 16 | If you were with us at the last occasion of this sort , the last centenary lecture on Gerter , given by Professor Corby , you will remember on that occasion erm he provided a focus of illumination in a period of power cuts , economic gloom and all the rest of it . |
| 17 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 18 | 4.33 Similarly , when lost earnings have meant that on return to work the plaintiff is free of tax for a period , having fallen below the level of earnings on which tax is payable , the tax that he has escaped during that period is a compensatory gain that must be taken into account in the assessment of his lost earnings ( Brayson v Wilmot-Breedon [ 1976 ] CLY 682 ) . |
| 19 | The group says that the survival of evidence over a period of years defies expectations and improves the prospects for enforcement of the recently signed international Chemical Weapons Convention ( see Nature 361 , 105 ; 1993 ) . |
| 20 | If you extend £100,000 of credit for a period of one year and during that year the inflation rate averages 10 per cent per annum , you will have effectively lost £1 0,000 even if you are paid in full and right on time . |
| 21 | It charts the development of still life , genre and landscape painting , the importance of historiae , the changing fashions in portraiture , and the role of art in a period of political and economic flux . |
| 22 | Upon notice being given to the Corporation that the motor car described in the Schedule is to be laid up and out of use for a period of not less than four consecutive weeks ( otherwise than as a result of loss or damage covered by the Policy ) and subject to the relative International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) being returned to the Corporation the Policy will be automatically suspended as from the date upon which such Card is received by the Corporation except as regards loss of or damage to such motor car by fire lightning explosion theft or attempted theft and on renewal a refund of 75% of the pro rata premium for the suspended period will be deducted from the renewal premium . |
| 23 | In the circumstances in which they were used they powerfully augmented other forces of change by providing data on the state of society at a period when so little was known . |
| 24 | Onset of proarrhythmia after a period of stable , long-term drug treatment is probably due to an intervening event such as ischaemia , hypokalaemia , the addition of another drug , or change in drug dose . |
| 25 | This amount may be calculated as a fixed percentage of profit for a period , or by adjusting a notional pool of a specified amount by the percentage change in profits compared with the preceding period . |
| 26 | Typology is the study of the development of particular types of artefact over a period of time . |
| 27 | It is best illustrated by the Crossman Diaries Case , A-G v Jonathan Cape Ltd [ 1976 ] QB 752 where the court would not prevent the publication of diaries of cabinet discussions on grounds of confidentiality after a period of ten years . |
| 28 | There are also some local variations in the measurements and because of this reliable detection of growth over a period of half a day seems unlikely . |
| 29 | Yet the general position had improved enough for the government to proceed to its second level campaign — the creation of nation-wide cultural uniformity through mass education as the chief instrument of modernization in a period when technical means and financial resources were not as yet adequate for fast modernization through industrialization . |
| 30 | The research concentrates on 40 Protestant and Catholic , skilled and semi-skilled , married men in two age groups ( 25-35 and 40-50 ) who will be ‘ followed ’ from the start of their spell of unemployment for a period of up to 17 months ( or until they regain paid work ) , interviews being conducted at approximately 5 month intervals . |