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

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1 Earlier statements that Japan must surrender all colonial possessions were reiterated but the precise fate of Korea was not clarified : Korea was to become independent at a future date but what would happen in the interim period remained to be decided .
2 Therefore , three of the four documented deaths over the intervening period occurred in those who had survived for at least 5 years after surgery .
3 Intriguingly , there is very little evidence of any widespread glaciation 150 million years ago , during the geological period known as the Jurassic .
4 A first interim order may last up to eight weeks which corresponds with the usual period allowed for investigation under s37 ( s38(4) ) .
5 Such a child might be subject to a rehabilitation period of ten years — the same period as for an adult sentenced to from six months ' to thirty months ' imprisonment , the longest period covered by the Act .
6 This was a total of five days of hearing and was the longest period spent on one case by a ‘ Diplock ’ tribunal .
7 Movements of peoples in the historical period originated in the southerly latitudes of Inner Asia .
8 We may note from Table 9.6(a) that equity financing never exceeded 34 per cent of the total , indeed the primary sources of finance have been bank advances and ‘ other ’ ( Euroloans etc. ) over the entire period covered by the table .
9 Increasingly in some areas it can be seen that settlement sites occupied in the Roman period continued through post-Roman times to form the basic framework of medieval and modern villages and hamlets .
10 The only area which seems to have been devoid of buildings almost throughout the Roman period lay near the main centre of occupation in Birch Abbey and Evesham Street .
11 The theoretical territory attached to this hillfort , as suggested by Ian Burrow , is very similar to the land defined in the seventh-century charter , and it is thus possible that the estate of the hillfort persisted throughout the Roman period to emerge as a land unit belonging to Glastonbury Abbey until the sixteenth century .
12 The prepatent period ranges from 6-19 months and the worms have a longevity of about two years .
13 The prepatent period ranges from 1-2 months .
14 The prepatent period ranges from 5-6 weeks in chicks to eight weeks or more in adult birds .
15 The prepatent period varies from 15-18 days .
16 The prepatent period varies from 10-18 weeks .
17 The dominant type of station in the early period tended to be long and low , and ‘ picturesque theory ’ condemned such buildings as monotonous .
18 Profits over the nine-month period fell by 34% to £633m .
19 Transfer times cover the average period taken from leaving the airport to arriving in your resort .
20 The second period lasted through the seventies until the early eighties .
21 But the second period began with a bang for the CMS side and a quick treble which put them in a commanding position .
22 One can not compare exactly the customs accounts from the two ports , because those for London ending in 1460 conclude at the end of July instead of the normal date of Michaelmas , so the second period employed in the comparison is that of the eleven years 1450–61 .
23 Few Greek coins bear explicit dates , although some of the eras in use in the Hellenistic period appear on coinage , notably on the coinage of the kings of Syria which are regularly dated by the Seleucid era beginning in 312BC .
24 The consumption function is lagged one period so that consumption in the current period depends on national income in the previous period .
25 However , most of the production capacity was still in place during the 1990/91 period covered by the survey and in any case the majority of production was destined for the home market .
26 The member states most concerned by the proposal — Greece , Spain , Ireland , Italy and Portugal — favour the three-month period proposed by the Commission .
27 Of course , Thomas Luis de Victoria is better known than Juan Gutièrez de Padilla but , as Bruno Turner points out in his informative programme note , he is ‘ undoubtedly the finest composer of the colonial period to come from Old Spain and spend nearly all his productive life in the New Spain ’ .
28 In Argentina , the formative period began with the formation of mutual aid associations for shoemakers and printers and ended with the foundation of the General workers ' Union and three general strikes .
29 In the following section we shall examine the changes that have occurred in the UK economy in the decades leading up to the latest period of structural change , the changes over the post-war period culminating in what is often called the deindustrialization of the UK .
30 The other political factor against which town planning has to be seen in context in the post-war period relates to the local government and the institutional setting it has provided .
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