Example sentences of "a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pleasant period is ahead of you , as opportunities for socialising with others of your kind may be at their peak . |
| 2 | All are influenced by a strongly seasonal climate with abundant rainfall during the summer months and a dry period of between 4 and 8 months . |
| 3 | They need a dry period and a wet period as in the wild . |
| 4 | For a memorable period she kept a pet monkey which travelled on her shoulder until its erratic behaviour had it banned from the newsroom . |
| 5 | As an ex-member of 64 Squadron I would appreciate this recognition of a memorable period of RAF history . |
| 6 | How can a beam of electrons that is made to wiggle in a plane with a spatial period of a few centimetres possible produce electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of a few microns ? |
| 7 | Efforts over a prolonged period by the BMC and the Sandstone Climbing Club have failed to win reductions in the excessive charges here , but these efforts will continue . |
| 8 | Similarly , it is shrewd of him to play for the internationalist vote after a prolonged period of sullen Little Englandism during which Labour threatened to withdraw from the Common Market and called into question this country 's role within Nato . |
| 9 | For illness to occur , salmonellas usually require a growth medium such as prepared food and exposure to warm temperatures for a prolonged period , to allow multiplication to their 100,000 to 100,000,000 cells which constitute an infective dose . |
| 10 | THE APPOINTMENT of Robert Louis-Dreyfus as Saatchi 's chief executive and Charles Scott as financial director comes after a prolonged period of musical chairs involving top management . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Despite a prolonged period of rest , the inflammation took many weeks to settle down — even with a steroid injection . |
| 13 | Only just over a third of sales were military and well over half were overseas , so steady progress is attainable for a prolonged period .. |
| 14 | In many cultures the girl is secluded from the rest of society during menarche , sometimes for a prolonged period , and is made to undergo rituals of initiation into her new status as a fertile woman that range from brutal to instructive and celebratory . |
| 15 | Exercises that increase stamina are those that require you to breath slightly more heavily than usual for a prolonged period of time ( say , an exercise session of thirty minutes or so ) . |
| 16 | A good game of tennis , badminton , hockey , netball , or football , for instance , all involve a great deal of running over a prolonged period of time . |
| 17 | If such exercises are repeated quickly enough to cause you to become breathless for a prolonged period , you will be building stamina too . |
| 18 | During his reign he added vast territories to the Frankish kingdom that he had inherited ; Lombardy ( the traditional enemy of both Franks and papacy ) , parts of Spain , all of Saxony over a prolonged period of campaigning , and Slavonic regions of the Drave and Elbe . |
| 19 | Because a teacher is concerned with a whole person over a prolonged period of time … so he tends to become involved as a whole person . |
| 20 | A stability test involves the accumulation of a substantial amount of data over a prolonged period of time and may require the production of reports at several stages of the test . |
| 21 | Should you experience any of the symptoms over a prolonged period of time , it is always advisable to have a check-up to ensure that you do not have a condition which requires professional help . |
| 22 | ‘ The largest single category of problems mentioned , however , was depression and anxiety attributable to the stresses of caring over a prolonged period of time . ’ |
| 23 | Declining per capita income over a prolonged period of time usually results in a change of government , sometimes after a revolution or a military coup . |
| 24 | This is thought to have resulted from a prolonged period of subaerial exposure in response to a drop in sea-level prior to the deposition of the Z3 Anhydrite . |
| 25 | Stress becomes harmful only when it exceeds our ability to cope with the situation , or when it continues unrelieved over a prolonged period . |
| 26 | A prolonged period of family life permits the growing offspring to add individual learning experiences to their inborn behaviour programming . |
| 27 | Corticosteroids , if used for a prolonged period , can cause a type of dependency . |
| 28 | After the traumas of war , revolution and civil war he thought that it was necessary to have a prolonged period of social and political peace which would provide the correct climate for the economic growth that all desired . |
| 29 | Spreading ridges can decrease the total volume of the world 's oceans , but a prolonged period of volcanism may also have increased the total volume of water . |
| 30 | The only people who are likely to experience extended periods of spontaneous regression are those who have been practising deep meditation over a prolonged period of time and have reached a high degree of competence in this field . |