Example sentences of "a period between " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ’ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is possible to start with 1.2A after 1.1Z , but this is symptomatic of too long a period between approvals . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Stonesfield , with its many stylistic parallels with the Woodchester mosaic , likewise , can be assigned to a period between 300 and 340 . |