Example sentences of "with a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an IUD has been fitted you may feel the sort of cramp-like pain that sometimes comes with a period . |
| 2 | By an irony of fate , abolition coincided with a period of rising crime , both violent and non-violent , in which Britain shared with most other countries on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 3 | We had chosen our visit to coincide with the full moon , but it also coincided with a period of maximum solar flare activity , and on every clear night the Lights treated us to a spectacular show in green and red . |
| 4 | Many aspects of our environment show a rhythm with a period of 24 hours as a result of this solar day . |
| 5 | The results showed that rhythms with a period of about 24 hours continued and this confirmed the activity of the body clock during the experiment ( fig 2.1 ) . |
| 6 | It tends to run with a period different from that of a solar day ! |
| 7 | This intermediate stage consists of what appears to be a free-running rhythm with a period that differs from 24 hours . |
| 8 | We have already seen that it is common to feel tired about lunchtime ( the ‘ post-lunch dip ’ ) ; this is about 12 hours after retiring and so is another example of an ultradian rhythm with a period less than 24 hours . |
| 9 | • A free-running rhythm with a period greater than 24 hours ( because the time-cues were too weak or the subject was unable to receive or respond to them adequately ) ; |
| 10 | Some individuals , even when living in normal society , do not remain in synchrony with the 24-hour day and instead free-run with a period of about 25 hours . |
| 11 | According to calculations by Edmund Booth , an earthquake specialist with Ove Arup and Partners , a large firm of consulting engineers based in London , the soft clay under Mexico City ‘ tuned ’ the period of the quake 's ground motion to something near a pure sine wave with a period of 2 seconds . |
| 12 | In the treatment of gonorrhoea with complications , a longer course of antibiotic therapy is needed and this must usually be combined with a period of rest , preferably in bed , preferably alone . |
| 13 | Open and closed questions with a period of miming thrown in . |
| 14 | Tipler 's description of a working time machine is a cylinder with the density of a neutron star , 100 km long and 10 km in radius , rotation twice every millisecond ( New Scientist , vol. 87 , p 654 ) , superficially , such an object would be a lot like a fast pulsar , since pulsars are thought to be rotation neutron stars , but the fastest pulsar known when Tipler made his calculations was the Crab pulsar , with a period of 30 milliseconds . |
| 15 | Since then the spots have come and gone with a period of roughly 11 years . |
| 16 | On a time-scale which may not coincide exactly with our present scientific calculations of geological time , they say that the cycle commences with a period of 1.7 million years when the power of the Life Force is immeasurably stronger and more evident in physical affairs than it is today . |
| 17 | According to Ian Hawkins : ‘ The recession has tested the ability of management to cope with a period of economic downturn deeper and longer than anyone expected , and the venture capitalists ’ ability to negotiate their way through it . |
| 18 | If this flowering season coincides with a period of terrible weather , you could lose the entire crop for that year . |
| 19 | Of course , it is feasible that the Greeks were more sharp-sighted than we are , and certainly their skies were clearer ; but it is equally likely that Merope has dimmed a fair deal over the past few thousand years — in other words , that it is a variable star with a period of at least several thousand years . |
| 20 | He took nine months off between jobs and dabbled in commune life , with a period at Laurieston Hall , the alternative centre on the Scottish Borders . |
| 21 | He described human infants as being likely to experience problems in the regulation of breathing , such as those associated with the sudden infant death syndrome , because their anatomical and neurological immaturity coincides with a period of change that is specific to humans , that of the acquisition and use of language . |
| 22 | A massive vein from the upper eastern flank has a U-series age of 13311kyr , contemporaneous with a period of high lake levels . |
| 23 | Interaction usually begins with a period of eye contact which appears to signal from me to you ( and vice versa ) that we are ready to relate . |
| 24 | R Aræ , in the same × 7 field with Zeta and Eta , is an Algol-type eclipsing binary with a period of 4.4 days . |
| 25 | Alpha , of course , is the nearest of all the bright stars , at a mere 4.3 light-years ; it is a fine binary with a period of 80 years , but the components are too close to be split with binoculars . |
| 26 | Here we have another S-type Mira variable , with a period of 407 days . |
| 27 | U , of spectral type M , appears to be irregular , with a range of from 5.6 to 7.5 ; EU ranges from 6.0 to 6.9 , and is also of type M. It is said to be semi-regular , with a period of around 60 days , but I have never been at all confident about this . |
| 28 | In the same × 7 field is R Leporis , of spectral type N , a Mira variable with a period of 432 days . |
| 29 | The brightest is RR , a Mira-type star with a period of 279 days . |
| 30 | The widespread acceptance of floating exchange rates has been associated with a period of less favourable economic developments , such as massive payments imbalances arising from large but often irregular oil prices increases , declining commodity prices ( which seriously affect less developed economies ) , high interest rates during the 1980s ( which worsened the debt position of many countries ) , and lower average economic growth compared with the Bretton Woods era . |