Example sentences of "during a period " in BNC.

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1 Some doctors prefer to fit an IUD during a period .
2 If not during a period , then adequate contraceptive measures must have been taken since the last period , such as the pill , or sheath , or cap with spermicide , used on every occasion .
3 If you do not want a baby , but want your IUD removed , this is best done during a period , and you should immediately start using another method of contraception .
4 Pregnancy sometimes occurs when intercourse takes place during a period .
5 Lloyd 's argues that many members who are leaving are those with limited resources who joined the market during a period of rapid expansion in the 1970s .
6 Life With Lyle by Sandy Lyle 's caddie , Dave Musgrove , breaks the mould , being a record , kept by Musgrove , of their times together during a period when Lyle won three events in America , including the US Masters , and three events in Europe , including the World Match Play Championship .
7 This weakness of the banking system came during a period of rapid economic growth .
8 His descent continued : his job talking rubes into a San Francisco strip-club was his most reputable career during a period in which he also became a heroin addict , a pimp for his next bride and an armed robber ( he once pinned a victim 's hand to the floor with a knife ) .
9 The first reigned during a period of complex political change , and presided over the difficult transition from the Roman Republic and the civil wars which brought it to an end to the monarchical system which became the Roman empire ; Nero 's reign marks the abandonment of the pattern which had been established by Augustus .
10 In the early days , when they still slept together , he had insisted on taking her during a period : remaining perfectly motionless , in her , on her — sometimes for hours .
11 Dealers are worried that a minority government , which might have to consider seeking a firmer mandate by calling a second general election later in the year , would be hard pressed to keep sterling within its exchange rate mechanism bands during a period of continuing uncertainty .
12 Others who attended District courses not infrequently failed to submit claims for the remission of fees — all during a period of high unemployment and short-time working which suggested that in this District at least , the WETUC was of little perceived interest or known value to those it existed to support .
13 That these were exceptional arrangements agreed during a period of acute difficulty for the District is revealed in the following table which summarises the provision of Chapter III courses in England and Wales in 1935–36 :
14 The scale of concern recently about the level of indiscipline and disruption in many schools resulting from pupil misbehaviour has to some extent been unwarranted , possibly inflamed by scare stories in the media and a greater willingness on the part of the profession , during a period of low morale and frustration , to report incidences of disruption and physical attacks on teachers .
15 This is all a far cry from the cosy coffee morning , which is itself shorthand for a vast network of peer support groups in which women , who have ceased to be competitive for the first time in their lives , can find reassurance during a period of mindbending uncertainty .
16 For example , if household size falls during a period under examination , the study might conclude that living standards had also fallen .
17 It might seem odd during a period of so much innovation and advancement in photographic technology that a film developer formulated in 1891 should still be so popular today , over 100 years on
18 It may seem odd that during a period of so much innovation and advancement in photographic technology that a film developer formulated in 1891 should still be so popular today over 100 years on .
19 A similarly austere portrait style reappeared in the mid-third century AD during a period of prolonged crisis in the administration of the Roman Empire .
20 He rang the Wallis 's number twice more during a period of five days and each time got the answerphone .
21 Attracting candidates can often be easier than selecting the right one , especially during a period when jobs are hard to obtain .
22 The amounts shown above include regular and final bonuses achieved during a period where at times rates of interest and capital appreciation have been high .
23 Scott quotes the case of a man who was persecuted by visions during a period of sickness and depression ; one of these visions was ‘ the apparition of a gentleman-usher , dressed as if to wait on a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland … arrayed in court dress , with bag and sword , tamboured waistcoat and chapeaubras ’ who ‘ glided beside me like the ghost of Beau Nash …
24 During a period of pitiful loneliness and depression , Marinello made the ill-advised decision to compromise his skills and try to win his way back into the Arsenal first team as an auxiliary midfield player rather than an avaricious dribbler .
25 In nursing libraries a set of film loops of practical procedures can be made available , either for revision or to illustrate procedures that have not been available during a period of ward experience .
26 Appearing during a period that has seen a stream of reassessments of the discovery and development of penicillin , Gordon 's work is his fictional version of the same episode — together with some real events and characters .
27 When a plan drawn up during a period of supply crisis fails to analyse thoroughly the question of the balance of supply and demand this of course is no ‘ external ’ defect , no ‘ formal ’ omission , but a profoundly internal fault .
28 Finding reasons , or excuses , for this unflattering view of the building surveyor 's contribution to his profession during a period of unprecedented post-war reconstruction and technological innovation is not a productive exercise , but what is obvious is that the most damning indictment is the lack of identifiable discipline .
29 Twenty-five years ago , during a period of full employment , employers may sometimes have been right to assume that those who were unemployed or redundant were less effective than those who held down a job .
30 Perhaps , humanly speaking , some of us had doubted during a period of economic recession that we would achieve such a level of giving but God had been honoured .
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