Example sentences of "by a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gives us a picture of a firm conversion to theism in the summer of 1929 , followed by a period in which he believed in God , but not in the doctrines of Christianity . |
| 2 | ‘ Whenever I have had some sort of public success , ’ he reported in his autobiography , ‘ it has inevitably been followed by a period of personal financial distress and prolonged unemployment . ’ |
| 3 | The question , ‘ Why do you have the farm ? ’ often evoked a look of surprise followed by a period of silence . |
| 4 | If anything the effect is enhanced by a period of drying . |
| 5 | This is followed by a period during which he is trapped in London 's underworld of pickpockets , burglars , safe-breakers , and prostitutes , although the fence Fagin , who exploits these lesser criminals , is unable to destroy his innocence . |
| 6 | It has often been precipitated by a period of considerable exposure to cold , especially very cold dry weather and then ill the same day , that is soon after the exposure . |
| 7 | The occupational mobility of labour can often be overcome by a period of retraining , but this takes time and may be costly for the unemployed worker . |
| 8 | Any substantial shortfall in the nature of training may be made up , at the option of the applicant , by a period of supervised practice or by passing an examination . |
| 9 | When a proposal or statement is followed by a period of silence , the person who breaks the silence loses — wrong ! |
| 10 | Structural studies of the shales and greywackes of the Skiddaw Group have refined the understanding of the deformational history : the early episode of major slump folding identified previously now appears to have been followed by a period of upright folding that has been subsequently modified by south-directed thrusting . |
| 11 | It was also true that the reformers were more interested in what practical achievements could be made by a period of liberalisation . |
| 12 | This time is followed by a period in which the chances of becoming dry are low ( MacKeith et al . |
| 13 | The initial crisis of the reign was succeeded by a period of prolonged negotiations . |
| 14 | In addition , the proffered certainties of Calvinism had great appeal for the many men and women who were suffering from the dislocation and anxiety produced by a period of unpredictable economic development and rapid social change . |
| 15 | Examination of the debate on Buxton 's resolutions for gradual emancipation of 15 May 1823 , of his resolution for parliament to take up general emancipation of 15 April 1831 ( the resolution was interpreted in the debate by other speakers as being immediatist ) and , more briefly , of the debate on Stanley 's government resolutions for emancipation followed by a period of apprenticeship of 14 May 1833 indicates a clear shift to acceptance of abolitionist assumptions . |
| 16 | Frequent use of search was often marked by a period of experimentation with a variety of firms in the first instance , followed by a settling down to regular work with a smaller number of firms with whom the client had achieved a modus vivendi . |
| 17 | Marjanov 's early training as a machine-fitter was followed by a period of study with Megert at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf , where the artist now lives and works in the Ratherstrasse artists ' collective . |
| 18 | However , the swift rout of China in 1894–95 was followed by a period of tense rivalry between Russia and Japan culminating in the war of 1904–05 . |
| 19 | That structure of international regulation broke down in the 1970s and has been followed by a period of instability where it is uncertain whether US hegemony can be re-established or whether a different mode of regulation under Japanese or European domination will be constructed . |
| 20 | The first , consecutive pattern , in which a period of theoretical study is followed by a period of supervised practice , is associated mainly with some of the traditional professions such as medicine , dentistry , veterinary science , law and to a large extent engineering . |
| 21 | 1n 1911 the ports had been prepared by a period of intensive propaganda for strike action and a " spontaneous " movement for a withdrawal of labour had followed . |
| 22 | Apart from indicating past , present , and future reference , each past or future reference is marked to show whether the event in question is immediately connected to the present , is separated from it by a period of time but taking place on the same day , or is separated from the present by at least one night . |
| 23 | A net outflow from the UK until the 1931 Census was followed by a period of net inward migration which culminated in the early 1960s in the peak arrivals of migrants from the ‘ new Commonwealth ’ , chiefly the Caribbean and the Indian sub-continent , reflecting a UK shortage of labour in the long ‘ post-war boom ’ . |
| 24 | The searing impact of recession left behind the raw legacy of redundant sites and workers in all of the northern conurbations , above all because it was followed by a period of jobless growth in industry ( 1982–87 ) . |
| 25 | Withdrawal from southern England , therefore , may have been accompanied by a period of consolidation in the more immediately adjoining territories around the Mercian heartland , analogous to processes at work in northern and southern England . |
| 26 | They may also be interrupted by a period of unsettled weather — when the winds blow from anywhere at any strength ! |
| 27 | Bald planned to follow it with other county surveys of similar quality , but this ambition was frustrated when the Ordnance Survey was directed to produced its own map of Ireland in 1824 , and henceforth he devoted his energies to civil engineering , a profession for which he further equipped himself by a period of renewed study and foreign travel . |
| 28 | His studies were interrupted during 1917–18 by a period of war service as a surgeon probationer on a destroyer and then resumed at St Bartholomew 's Hospital in London where he qualified MRCS , LRCP in 1920 . |
| 29 | The war years were however characterised by a period of judicial restraint . |
| 30 | In 1867 , the young scholar 's career was temporarily interrupted by a period of military service which resulted in a serious chest injury . |