Example sentences of "more [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Temporary planetary instability will soon give way to a more tranquil period . |
| 2 | If this ( expected ) relative price is high then it will give suppliers an incentive to produce and sell more this period and hold the proceeds in monetary form , in anticipation that their real value will increase as the average price level falls next period . |
| 3 | ‘ Relevant time ’ is defined in similar terms to those applicable to companies so far as preferences are concerned , but a more extended period , of five years , is provided for transactions at an undervalue . |
| 4 | Twelve months is usually a more appropriate period . |
| 5 | Because the discussion of these criteria is associated with a fresh and more promising period in the history of memory research , and also symbolizes the point in my own research trajectory at which I switched from working on imprinting to an even simpler form of learning in the young chick , they can appropriately form the starting-point for the next chapter . |
| 6 | There followed a rather more conventional period where his activities seem to have differed little from the other young gentlemen of his day ; he studied scientific works on medicine and the natural sciences and pursued a particular interest in taking thermometer readings under varying conditions , including some from the craters of Italian volcanoes . |
| 7 | Fourteen days would seem to be a more reasonable period though the landlord may be concerned that this could leave little time for it to make a considered response where the notice is subject to a time restriction . |
| 8 | During his second and more important period as foreign secretary in 1822 – 27 Canning went considerably further in this direction . |
| 9 | However , they were believed not only to be resisting pressures to bring this date forward , but also to be insisting on a more protracted period , perhaps of four years , for the subsequent completion of the unification of ministries and other institutions . |
| 10 | These developments almost certainly signalled the inauguration of a more peaceful period in Pictish-Northumbrian relations with the accession of Coenred . |
| 11 | Of The Shadow-Line , a story still more autobiographical in its essence , Conrad said that he was aiming at ‘ the presentation of certain facts , which certainly were associated with the change from youth , care-free and fervent , to the more self-conscious and more poignant period of maturer life ’ . |
| 12 | And must have been I think it was one of the things that that helped to lead to a more settled period . |
| 13 | Perversely , as it must have seemed to penal reformers , the opportunities offered by borstal training , with its reformative aims , were all too often spurned by young offenders , many of whom preferred a prison sentence to borstal training on the grounds that it was usually shorter and for a more certain period . |
| 14 | Certainly night is a more solemn period than day , when the withdrawal of the sun 's influence enforces a caesura to activity . |
| 15 | Rather , it is that the processes described in the previous chapter have continued during the more recent period . |
| 16 | The choice of 1985/6 , rather than a more recent period , is deliberate , since the comparisons over time made later in this chapter would be precluded by the discontinuity introduced for 1986/7 , through the dismantling of the major Metropolitan Authorities , such as the GLC . |
| 17 | Historical accounts of the more recent period are , generally speaking , still to be written , as is an overall review of social policy development since the Second World War . |
| 18 | Two major periods of uplift and rift formation have been recognized in Africa ; a Jurassic-Cretaceous rifting phase between 180 and 130 Ma BP associated with the break-up of Gondwana and a more recent period initiated some 35 to 25 Ma BP and continuing up to the present . |
| 19 | But such a response implies that next period their stocks of goods will be lower than they feel is optimal , and they will therefore want to build them up again by producing more next period than they otherwise would . |
| 20 | A more active period of igneous activity in the Pliocene — Quatemary , involving massive emplacements of magma , caused intense folding and the formation of large thrust sheets in the Eastern Cordillera . |
| 21 | A second , more intense period of erosion ( unit IV ) is bracketed by dates of 2,53060 and 1,19070yrBP ( Table 1 b ) . |