Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Term Characteristic Six months Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 does not apply to a tenancy for a term of years certain not exceeding six months unless : ( 1 ) it contains provision for renewing the term or extending it beyond six months from its beginning ; or ( 2 ) the tenant has been in occupation for a period which , together with any period during which any predecessor in his business was in occupation , exceeds twelve months ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s43(3) ) . |
| 2 | The placing of the concept of the Created God entirely in that period of the earth 's history which follows the advent of life , means that science and religion do not need to be at variance . |
| 3 | Meanwhile he settled down to another period of peace and exile . |
| 4 | Ah , well , perhaps the steel was pushing ahead with renewed vigour to meet some condition beyond which was not conspicuous to the ‘ boomers ’ , so they sat down to another period of waiting . |
| 5 | Thus , we have : For two main reasons , economists are usually quite happy to work with ‘ gross ’ rather than ‘ net ’ figures : first , depreciation tends to change only slowly over time so that the ‘ gross ’ and ‘ net ’ figures move closely together over any period of a few years ; and secondly , depreciation figures are notoriously difficult to estimate with any accuracy . |
| 6 | The only thing that we do , and we 've always done it without Neighbourhood Watch , we always make a point of telling one another when we 're gon na be away for any period of time . |
| 7 | Somewhat chastened by his recent flops , burdened by the NFFC loan and prevented by his reputation for extravagance from raising substantial finance elsewhere , Korda kept away during this period from glamour , lavish sets and spectacle . |
| 8 | Agnes lifted her eyebrows in a facial shrug ; George knew far more about that period of history than she did . |
| 9 | The intensity of their love , and their readiness to speak to each other directly from the heart , fed rapidly on this period of enforced absence , made tolerable — and enhanced — by the writing of letters . |
| 10 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 11 | It was also in this period of the early Sixties that he experimented with LSD and , like most of his contemporaries , used marijuana . |
| 12 | Whether and how we can emerge from these turbulent times , depends on the kind of political debates , actions , choices and alliances that are worked out during this period in the United States , Japan , the Middle East and especially here in Europe . |
| 13 | Pay it back over any period between 3 and 15 years . ’ |
| 14 | Now , when life is so precious , I can look back on that period with shocked amazement . |
| 15 | Perhaps some of Wilfrid 's monasteries in Mercia ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 64 ) date back to this period in his life for Wulfhere was a patron of monasticism . |
| 16 | Erm er the other things we 're doing which has n't mentioned is that we 're doing an actuarial assessment of the probable erm let's min not mince our words , death rate , sort of the drop out rate if you like of , of placements because takes people who are in there out at any period during the year or the future and we need to have some sort of projection for that as well . |
| 17 | Even during this period of labour shortage the fear of unemployment was ever present and remained a reality in certain occupations and regions , for example on Merseyside and Clydeside . |
| 18 | The figures reveal the full extent of the increase in investment in the 1980s as a result of the Government 's policies , an increase which has been maintained even during this period of recession . |
| 19 | 4.1 the Rent payable without any deduction by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days in every year and proportionately for any period of less than a year the first such payment being a proportionate sum in respect of the period from and including the Rent Commencement Date to and including the day before the quarter day next after the Rent Commencement Date to be paid on the date of this Lease and |
| 20 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 21 | The view was breathtaking , and even in this period of crisis both men found time to absorb St Petersburg 's beauty . |
| 22 | Even in this period in Japan , however , it is highly unlikely that the exchange rate movement was the dominating factor in declining profitability . |
| 23 | It 's not an exact ten minutes , it 's not an exact six hundred seconds , but what it is , is round about that period of time , after about ten minutes , what you do is you switch off and you go and do something else . |
| 24 | Possibly goods may have been smuggled out without paying duty , although this last should not be exaggerated , because there is no reason to believe that the level of smuggling varied markedly from one period to another , and because with bulk commodities the possible gains were small and the risk of penalties was high ( 66 , pp.21–5 ) . |