Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through contacts formed in a previous period of field work with poor urban women of this category , the investigator is proposing to hold long open-ended discussions with a sample of older women and their daughters on the subject of AIDS : e.g. their knowledge of the epidemiology of the disease , the method of its transmission and finally their assessment of their own risk of contracting the disease . |
| 2 | For these species , therefore , about half of the bones expected to be present , based on the numbers of prey animals consumed over a measured period , were recovered from the pellets . |
| 3 | In a study undertaken over a two-week period , Tom Tadecki , research director of the International Coalition Against Violent Entertainment , found that more than 33 per cent of its programmes involved some form of aggression , with violent acts occurring at a rate of 10 per hour . |
| 4 | The examination of all the images produced during a particular period or of a selection of images over a longer period will often provide a good idea of how the relevant state or regime wished to represent itself . |
| 5 | A German colony from 1884 , the territory came under South African rule in 1915 , and in 1920 a League of Nations mandate provided for a further period of South African administration . |
| 6 | A Metropolitan Police study conducted during a three-month period in 1979 found that 0.4 per cent of detainees were held for seventy-two hours or more . |
| 7 | Such factors may include , for instance , a previous experience of loss which was dealt with badly , unresolved grief , past experience of failure , a lack of a sense of self-efficacy , a low self-esteem , a previous history of psychiatric disorder , and an absence of close relationships established over a long period of time . |
| 8 | This is referred to in the legislation as ‘ permission granted for a limited period only ’ . |
| 9 | Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change . |
| 10 | After the war , many of the type served for a brief period with RCN reservist units until they were all struck off charge in 1947 . |
| 11 | While a range of jobs now make up this sector , they neatly divide into seasonal , temporary or casual work on the one hand , and , on the other , work contracted for a fixed period of time or for whatever time it takes to complete a defined task . |
| 12 | An undertaking not to compete with the business transferred for a specific period within a specific geographical area will commonly be given by the vendor to the purchaser ( see Clause 15 of the Standard Sale Agreement — Appendix III ) . |
| 13 | But a study of the distribution of the hoards deposited in a well-documented period such as the English Civil War has shown that both of these assumptions are incorrect ( fig. 27 ) . |
| 14 | Investors there would nevertheless be permitted to write off against tax 50 per cent of costs entailed in a one-year period , while employees there would have their tax allowances increased , and companies would not have to pay the same local property and capital taxes as in western Germany . |
| 15 | Mr Fisher worked for several years at the Squilver Quarry as office manager , and in his retirement served for a lengthy period as Hon. |
| 16 | Revenues realized in a particular period ( measured by the selling prices of goods and services delivered to customers ) less related expenses ( measured by the cost of goods and services used ) gives a profit for the period in question . |
| 17 | It was the result of a carefully planned experiment based on numerous other experiments performed over a long period . |
| 18 | For use limited to a shorter period , the alternative would be to rent the machines . |
| 19 | This new hobby developed during an interesting period for the British press . |
| 20 | Sponsored by Sainsbury 's supermarket chain , this year 's event at Smith 's Galleries in Covent Garden from 26 October offered 508 works sold over a six-day period , raising £241,248 . |
| 21 | One other study , in which a group of 341 epidemiologists had H pylori antibody state assessed over a mean period of 8.5 years , also showed a low rate of serovonversion to a positive antibody state over time , ( 0.49% per person year ) . |
| 22 | The best hope of an autonomy deal surviving — forget about democracy — is the bleakness of the alternative facing Mr Hussein : an ambivalent slab of northern territory run for an indefinite period by foreign armies , and therefore largely outside Iraqi control . |
| 23 | Egyptian ideas about the creation of the world developed over a considerable period of time . |
| 24 | Erm , then the erm , the insistence of the driver 's conductors was they did n't like the long periods of duty they erm , they wanted the new set up so I introduced what we call straight duties , narrowed the relief portion , so they did n't go home for a meal , they had about a half an hour off , so they were able to get their eight hour duty done in a shorter period and they 'd probably finish about two instead of half past three , four o'clock . |
| 25 | Managers , investors and other interested groups invariably wish to know how well an organization performed during a given period and its financial position at a given point in time . |
| 26 | The objective reality of such an energy distribution system is thoroughly documented by Dr Hiroshi Motoyama of Tokyo , who has spent thirty years researching the subject of Bio-energy and from results of tests conducted over a fifteen-year period qualifies his work in these words |
| 27 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 28 | At its meeting on 25 January the National Executive agreed to a statement surveying Cripps ' " past campaigns waged over a long period " , " his wide departure from the Party 's Programme , Principles and Policy " , and his " organised effort fundamentally to change the Party 's direction and leadership " . |
| 29 | Gross domestic product measures the value of all final goods and services produced during a particular period of time in the UK . |
| 30 | In line with decisions made by a policy-making National Conference in February 1990 the Constitution was suspended , the National Assembly was dissolved , and the country entered into an 11-month period of transitional government when legislative power was vested in a 50-member High Council of the Republic , to culminate in contested elections in 1991 . |