Example sentences of "[be] [adv] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the doctor says that it should be just a normal period after you 've had it , but it 'll be faster flow . |
| 2 | What we 're trying to do is say look , you are senior people in this company because although you 've only been here a short period of time , but you 're still very senior people . |
| 3 | Now it 's a lot of people , it 's only a short period of time , is n't it , one month . |
| 4 | Your son has suffered a terrible loss — six months is not a long period of time to get over such a trauma . |
| 5 | During what is normally a dead period , the company has sold nine farms since January . |
| 6 | This is still a vital period for the new resident . |
| 7 | On the seven-day cooling-off period , it is correct , as the Minister says , that there are similar provisions in other European countries , but will he confirm that , in those countries where there is a cooling-off period for unions , there is also a cooling-off period for employers ? |
| 8 | It is now a beautiful period residence , restored with great care and until recently kept as a private home . |
| 9 | Finally , the contract is often a fixed period one . |
| 10 | It was not a twenty-year period of formal civil conflict . |
| 11 | The third quarter of the century was therefore a fertile period of experiments in the mobilisation of capital for industrial development . |