Example sentences of "a [noun sg] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a base period output/input ratio is termed an historical standard or target . |
| 2 | As much as 85% of the materials should be on open access , and stock relegated to store should remain there for a trial period of five years before being returned to the main library , or transferred to a permanent back-up collection such as the British Library . |
| 3 | If you accept the offer of a new job on changed terms , a trial period comes into effect automatically . |
| 4 | ‘ When a client is accepted , there 's a trial period for both us and the client . |
| 5 | My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 ! |
| 6 | This can meet her need temporarily when she is at some crisis point , providing , for all concerned , a trial period of living under the same roof , in this tactful guise of a holiday — without commitment on either side . |
| 7 | Over a trial period , adjust preset VR1 slightly to provide a timing of 24 hours or as required . |
| 8 | Several could not recall subscribing to Channel 7 ; one had refused to subscribe ; one had signed up for a trial period at some point ; and the majority had been unhappy with the service . |
| 9 | The accruals method has been recommended by the ABI as suitable for a trial period of experimentation to see if there is sufficient support for it , since to some extent ‘ true and fair ’ is a question of acceptance and convention as well as theoretical concept . |
| 10 | If the new job is different in any way , an employee can try it out for a trial period of up to four weeks . |
| 11 | The 21-year-old international , also a forward , clocks on for a trial period today , 24 hours after the arrival of Norway 's star striker , Tore Andre Dahlum of Rosenberg , who started a week 's trial yesterday . |
| 12 | The Wagner report ( 1988 ) suggests a nominated social worker should be involved with a client and family in all the decisions leading up to , and through any possible admission to care , whether it be day care , respite care , or eventual permanency after a trial period . |
| 13 | But despite the differences of opinion that exist — ones that are generally between individuals rather than any factions based on club or country — there is one area of consensus that prevails : That any new laws be given a trial period of at least one year . |
| 14 | By the summer , after a trial period , he was doing well , and the necessary clothing was provided for him by the Union . |
| 15 | Walmsley looks at several possible explanations and concludes that the change is largely due to the Act itself , firstly in the simple sense that the passing of the 1967 Act brought to an end a trial period of uncertainty for the police by making quite clear that , although in the future homosexual acts in private between consenting adults were to be legal , such acts in ‘ public ’ as defined by the Act were not . |
| 16 | The Neath-born slow left-arm bowler is doing a sound job for Gloucestershire ; but Glamorgan have been left without a bowler of that kind , though ex-Kent spinner Mark Dobson came on a trial period . |
| 17 | Allow a trial period . |
| 18 | The chip Shop is going to extend into the vacant shop next door and this was given the go ahead for a trial period of one year . |
| 19 | Can I stay overnight for a trial period ? |
| 20 | A trial period in a home may be the best way of finding out what day-to-day life is like , and make a difficult decision easier . |
| 21 | The Chip Shop is going to extend into the vacant shop next door and this was given the go ahead for a trial period of one year . |
| 22 | The Information Technology Sub-Committee has sought to make a contribution , and successfully put forward a reasoned scheme for the amendment of pleadings by non-coloured laserprinter which was subsequently adopted for a trial period within the Commercial Division under . |
| 23 | We could introduce it for a trial period , we could |
| 24 | They say they are willing to continue using the Skerne Park routes for a trial period while the speed humps are introduced . |
| 25 | And they have warned they are only prepared to leave services as they are for a trial period . |
| 26 | The directors , who claimed they had not been consulted properly about the scheme , agreed to continue to run their buses to the estate for a trial period when the humps are introduced . |
| 27 | Since health service planners are concerned about the acceptability of this to mothers-to-be , they are to employ both male and female midwives for a trial period of 12 months in a certain area . |
| 28 | Agents are usually appointed for a trial period at first , with extensions to the contract after that . |
| 29 | If , for example , a firm were to amend its sales budget half-way through a budget period the personnel responsible for production need to know this amended sales budget so they can plan and make provisions to ensure the products are available for sale . |
| 30 | The time samples could be of one minute 's duration , arranged so that each of the six pupils is observed in a regular cyclical sequence for parts of a teaching period . |