Example sentences of "[prep] a period [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a period of time we will then ask local groups to provide this information . |
| 2 | After a period of time , the milk appears to skin ; this is the cream rising to the surface of the vat . |
| 3 | But they do at least survive , and after a period of time will be able to regrow their tails . |
| 4 | After a period of time , silence on the part of a third party ( the most likely response ) could estop it from denying that a novation had occurred . |
| 5 | And eventually after a period of time that ins outer insulation will wear down , it will fray and it will break and it will expose the live and the neutral wires until , unfortunately sometimes , it will be a little bit too late . |
| 6 | After a period of time , the the people who have been abducted have in fact been released unharmed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Do they see erm , if , if they migrate to the city in the urban areas then they realize they wo n't get a job , and have a job straight away , er well paying job but by actually living in the area they would and taking in at a job and they get a lot of contacts and then eventually after a period of time they job . |
| 9 | Can you see that maybe , if at some time in the future , you do have er , some bad health , or perhaps get involved in an accident , that after a period of time , it might be difficult to actually find the money to pay for this plan we 're establishing tonight ? |
| 10 | I 've got the price of that product up and also get him his reduction after a period of time . |
| 11 | These relationships assume great importance and for a period of time they are probably the most significant ones we have . |
| 12 | It becomes an inevitable part of normal living that we form significant relationships with particular individuals for a period of time and then , often through force of circumstance , move away from those same relationships . |
| 13 | In hide-and-seek , a number of people agree for a period of time to abstract from living what they know of the ‘ hiding ’ function ( i.e. that people can be ‘ hiders ’ and ‘ seekers ’ and that places can be ‘ hiding places ’ ) and to behave , for the time being , as if only that function mattered . |
| 14 | Very often social anthropologists who study primitive tribes ‘ live ’ with them for a period of time using this role . |
| 15 | These are sometimes designed to take place for a period of time such as a day or a week . |
| 16 | One can see this at work in the now widely-used system of allowing each student to provide total nursing care for the patients in her care for a period of time . |
| 17 | Others say they were unable to comply with the surgeons instructions that they undertake no lifting or pulling for a period of time after the operation . |
| 18 | Trapping is a method which meets with limited success and involves feeding within a specialised wire cage for a period of time . |
| 19 | You may have to adjust the truss rod and shave or sand the bottom of the saddle slightly to achieve a reasonable action , especially if the guitar has been left in the heat for a period of time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This could , depending on the gravity of the matter , suspend the individual from practice for a period of time or even permanently . |
| 22 | This sort of placement or residency would be for a period of time , perhaps weeks or months , so there must be a commitment of time as well as purpose on the part of the artist . |
| 23 | Additionally , as with any exhibition , you need to assess carefully the implications of having a large amount of your work restricted to a single display venue for a period of time . |
| 24 | Journalists may be barred from the House for a period of time . |
| 25 | She may be able to work different hours for a period of time while her burden is shared by another member of the family or a neighbour . |
| 26 | If two systems have been for a period of time in dynamical isolation from each other , then a measurement on the first system can produce no real change in the second . |
| 27 | If we were to extend this line of reasoning , we would also have to consider the materiality of services such as hairdressing , advertising and repairs which , arguably , take a tangible form and benefit their customers for a period of time after production . |
| 28 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 29 | Caducius had been found by Alexander McKenn and Maurice Harknett in the 1960s and dived on for a period of time before being forgotten . |
| 30 | For example , if pupils are on part-time timetables some staff must accept that a pupil will not attend their class for a period of time . |