Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , it has been suggested that only a short period of desaturation — perhaps as little as 30 minutes during a 24 hour period — may be all that is necessary to prevent cholesterol crystal nucleation from bile . |
| 2 | Studies at King 's College School of Medicine show that even a short period of hard pedalling on an exercise bike diverts blood flow from the uterus to the legs , ‘ stealing ’ oxygen from the foetus . |
| 3 | This may be bad news if you do not have sufficient continuous service to qualify for rights if only the statutory period is added , although you would have had sufficient service if the longer notice period to which you are entitled under your contract were added . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most symbolically significant event in the general area of religion and morals in the early 1960s — if not the whole period under discussion — was the publication of John Robinson 's Honest to God in 1963 . |
| 5 | By making radar observations of a planet at several points in its orbit , and therefore at several axial orientations with respect to the Earth , it is , however , possible to obtain the axial orientation , and hence the axial period can be deduced . |
| 6 | Course adjustments may be put into effect immediately in the case of full-time courses , while , in order to protect the interests of part-time students locked into the Institution 's examination programme , adequate forward notice and even a transitional period with parallel diets , have had to be offered . |
| 7 | Gorbachev , visiting Lithuania in January 1990 , had unexpectedly promised that legislation would be introduced allowing republics to become fully independent ; but the law on secession , approved on 3 April 1990 , specified a two-thirds majority in a referendum on the issue and then a transitional period of up to five years in which territorial , property and other issues would be resolved . |
| 8 | Figure 4.3 ( b ) illustrates that the axial spin rate , and therefore the axial period of a planet can be determined from the spread of wavelengths induced in the echo by the motion of the surface . |
| 9 | Unless perhaps a certain period has already elapsed since that episode , if indeed it occurred . |