Example sentences of "a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It allows them the monopoly to exploit their invention for a period without unauthorised limitation or competition . |
| 2 | studies of radical tracts had covered a period without any of today 's party politics . |
| 3 | I have n't had a period since November 1991 . |
| 4 | It is grossly unfair that she should have been sentenced to life having been provoked by her partner over a period into killing him . |
| 5 | This is a period about which little is known for few records survive of those days . |
| 6 | Indeed , they do show rhythms in activity , waking , feeding requirements , bladder-emptying and body temperature — rhythms that all have a period between one and four hours and so are called ultradian . |
| 7 | The death of the old Daily Herald , the longest surviving Labour daily , founded in 1912 and owned by the Labour party for a period between the wars , was more agony than trauma when compared with the demise of the News Chronicle , but equally disturbing for its supporters . |
| 8 | For example , he may be told that his alibi relates to a period between 2 and 5 p.m. last Thursday , when he left the refectory after lunch and took a train to a named neighbouring town and visited a friend in time for tea . |
| 9 | The pulsar is also spinning rapidly with a period between I ms and a few seconds , but its magnetic dipole axis is not aligned with the spin axis . |
| 10 | ’ The policy of containment ’ refers to a period between 1946 and 1949 when the Western powers had decided that a stalemate had been reached , with the Soviet Union and that the power of communism had ceased to grow and expand . |
| 11 | The compensation claim covered a period between 1919 and 1967 when Nauru was under Australian administration , during which time its phosphates were extracted and sold at below market prices . |
| 12 | It is possible to start with 1.2A after 1.1Z , but this is symptomatic of too long a period between approvals . |
| 13 | But the generally deteriorating economic situation , widening internal differences following the second enlargement of the Community and changes in government ( especially in the UK ) , led to a period between 1981 and 1984 of inactivity in the development of a Community social policy . |
| 14 | In the case of the Caribbean slave communities , this probably took only a short time : for example , we know that the emergence of Sranan Tongo , an English-lexified Creole spoken in the coastal region of Surinam , can be dated with reasonable accuracy to a period between the arrival of the first English slave-owning planters in the middle of the seventeenth century , and their expulsion by the Dutch : a total of less than thirty years . |
| 15 | Stonesfield , with its many stylistic parallels with the Woodchester mosaic , likewise , can be assigned to a period between 300 and 340 . |
| 16 | After a period as head of MGM UK , Korda reconstituted London films , bought and modernized studios at Shepperton , took over a controlling interest in the British Lion distribution company and purchased the Rialto Cinema in Leicester Square as his showcase . |
| 17 | He was born in 1678 , the son of a Dudley locksmith , and progressed to iron working through a period as a brass-founder in Bristol . |
| 18 | It is said to have been built as a smock mill but later , after a period as a dwelling house , changed to a tower mill and made higher . |
| 19 | As a member of the Territorial Army Reserve he held the rank of Lt Colonel and served a period as a co of the OTC . |
| 20 | A period as a hospital inpatient is an opportunity for patients to break the habit , particularly those who have disease related to smoking or are at high risk , such as those with diabetes . |
| 21 | After a period as part of The Royal Tank Regiment during the Second World War , the battalion reverted to an infantry role in 1956 as The 23rd London Regiment ( TA ) . |
| 22 | He returned to the Survey in 1919 and , with the exception of a period as deputy master , security printing ( 1926–9 ) , he spent the rest of his career with the Survey . |
| 23 | A graduate in urban and regional planning , he originally worked for the Urban Wildlife Trust in Birmingham and also spent a period as an environmental planning consultant . |
| 24 | He may be required to live away from home for a period as part of the " treatment " programme devised by the supervisor . |
| 25 | A child can not be required to attend a hospital or mental nursing home as an in-patient for the purposes of examination unless the court is satisfied on the evidence of a registered medical practitioner , that : ( i ) the child may be suffering from a physical or mental condition that requires , or may be susceptible to treatment ; and ( ii ) a period as a resident patient is necessary if the examination is to be carried out properly ( para 4(3) ) . |
| 26 | He had a period as a railway clerk at Bridge , but was dismissed because of a deficit of eleven pounds . |
| 27 | Over a period of time they will all be ill . |
| 28 | Garde à vue detention allows the police to detain suspects for interrogation for a period of up to 10 days . |
| 29 | The photographs were taken over a period of ten years , and eventually they were brought together in a book in 1960 ; ten of the book 's essays originally appeared in Vogue , where the appealing mix of an artist 's conversation along with Liberman 's descriptions and commentary succeeded well . |
| 30 | Altogether , tutorials take place over a period of about twenty-four weeks in the last year of a course , and usually by the last twelve tutorials a student has a much clearer idea of what he or she is about . |