Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maximum period of suspension is one year or the unexpired period of the licence whichever is the less ( subs . |
| 2 | where the specific period for which the company was incorporated has expired ; |
| 3 | According to the LFS code book , temporary jobs in the first category can include jobs the termination of which " is fixed for , by example , reaching a certain date or completing an assignment , or by return of an employee who has been temporarily replaced " ( our italics ) i.e. jobs that could fit equally well into the second category whilst jobs in the second category are taken to include those with " a work contract for a specific task or a fixed period of time " ( our italics ) i.e jobs that could fit equally well into the first category . |
| 4 | And the outcome of the general election , due next year , would seem to be either a hopelessly splintered parliament or a second period of ‘ co-habitation ’ between a Socialist president and a conservative prime minister . |
| 5 | Float ( i.e. the lapse of time between the end of a work element and the following dependent work element ) or a programmed period of unproductive time within a work element has to be recognized in both the tender and subsequent programmes . |
| 6 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 7 | A legal estate is the right to possess land for a determinate or an indefinite period of time . |
| 8 | SO impressive has been Wigan 's play of late that it seems reasonable to conclude that the transitional period from the control of Graham Lowe to that of John Monie is complete . |
| 9 | By the late 1960s , it was accepted that the normal period of full-time economic employment would cease for most of the population at these ages . |
| 10 | He found that the only period to be consistent with rational expectations was from 1962 to 1969 . |
| 11 | Moreover , Tucker ( 1987 ) has pointed out that the first period of large-scale deforestation in northern India occurred in the 1850s and 1860s as the British colonisation of India gained momentum and railways were constructed to gain access to the upper Ganges and Indus plains . |
| 12 | Candidates for the degree of MLitt ( Faculty of Arts ) or MPhil ( other Faculties ) by thesis pursue a research project under broadly the same conditions as those applying to PhD candidates , except that the minimum period of study is usually not less than 24 months full-time or 36 months part-time . |
| 13 | The fact that the major period of growth for the Church was a result of the political conflict with liberal unionism meant that most of those who were attracted to the Church were aware of its high political profile and either positively endorsed it , or at least did not find it offensive . |
| 14 | The admission that compromise was possible is the first sign that the confident period of Hildebrandine reform — the period of intense conviction and hope of complete success — was coming to an end , and was being replaced by the age of negotiation , undertaken by lawyers and administrators , differing in their briefs , but alike in their methods , and understanding each other very well . |
| 15 | A survey by the working party of the top 100 UK companies indicated that the average period of time from the interim date to the release of the interim results was 53 days . |
| 16 | Manpower calculates that the average period for which a person works for it ( presumably the average of all spells of employment ) is four months , although it also points out that " many " temporary " workers have been continuously employed by Manpower for several years and three and five year service awards for temporaries are a frequent occurrence " ( Manpower , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | Taken in conjunction with his new powers , however , it aroused fears among pro-reform forces and among foreign observers that the recent period of liberalism and growing political freedom , ushered in under Gorbachev since 1985 , was drawing to an end . |
| 18 | The rest was enacted by the postwar Labour government , though there was one crucial departure from the insurance principle in that the qualifying period for full pension was very short . |
| 19 | In November , I wrote to him pointing that the formal period for consultation was ending and I asked when we might hear his response to the Green Paper . |
| 20 | Martin and Roberts ( 1984 ) show that , among women whose first child was born between 1970 and 1974 , 51 per cent had returned to paid employment within 5 years , and that the median period before return to work for this group was 4.8 years . |
| 21 | Of course professional use is significantly more , but even than the actual period of continuous operation is deceptively low . |
| 22 | Much less unacceptable would be a shorter warrant period , which should be the maximum duration possible , rather than the standard period in every case . |
| 23 | Over the last three months they rose only 0.5 per cent by value on the previous three months , but still some 12 per cent more than the same period in 1988 . |
| 24 | First the figures , furniture retailing continues to be highly competitive so I am pleased to report that turnover for the twenty eight weeks was through to the twenty million five point five percent better than the same period in the previous year . |
| 25 | Although a short period of unemployment may be unwelcome and will certainly cause hardship , it is not necessarily disastrous . |
| 26 | The animated debate amongst students and intellectuals before the Seventh National People 's Congress in April indicated that the anti-bourgeois campaign of 1987 was over and that a renewed period of liberalisation was under way . |
| 27 | King Hussein , who had resisted calls from Moslem Brotherhood members of parliament and leftists to boycott the conference , said in an emotional speech on Oct. 12 at a conference of 2,500 elected officials in Amman that he had been assured by the USA that it would " do its utmost " to see that a transitional period of Palestinian " autonomy " in the occupied territories would be negotiated within a year of the conference opening , and announced Jordan 's unconditional acceptance of US terms for the proposed Middle East peace conference . |
| 28 | But shortly before the general election , local authorities throughout Britain were told they did not have to go ahead and that a second period of consultation was to be held . |
| 29 | It pointed out that a prolonged period of profits growth at ISC had ended because of insistence by the auditors that ISC adopt more conservative accounting policies on long term contracts . |
| 30 | He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary , and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous , since it has been honoured only in the breach . |