Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [num] year period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bureau was established at the University of Warwick on 1 September 1983 with a contract for a four year period in the first instance . |
| 2 | The Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme was set up to enable social scientists , who have obtained a doctorate , to work full-time on original and independent research for a three year period . |
| 3 | The Postdoctoral Research Fellowshop Scheme was set up to enable social scientists , who have obtained a doctorate , to work full-time on original and independent research for a three year period . |
| 4 | A section of the Education Bill prevents school library services from offering their facilities to grant maintained schools after a two year period . |
| 5 | Third , as we monitored our representative sample of schools over a three year period , we could perceive some of them undergoing a process of structural transition , shifting away from the simple two-tier model towards departmentalism and/or a matrix structure . |
| 6 | This was how a Florida man described the graffiti with which he defaced a couple of hundred public library books over a three year period between 1977 and 1980 . |
| 7 | The result over a two year period is a range of display material that has been exclusively designed and manufactured , and is now available to retailers throughout the country . |
| 8 | Formol saline fixed , paraffin embedded Crosby capsule jejunal biopsy specimens were collected by reviewing the archives of the Royal Infirmary Pathology Department over a five year period . |
| 9 | Manning , unemployed , of High Street , Standish , Wigan , admitted raping three women and assaulting two of them causing actual bodily harm over a five year period . |
| 10 | In 1985 , the Industry and Employment Committee committed funds over a three year period for an initiative in New Technology . |
| 11 | von Scheidt et al assessed haemodynamic variables over a 5 year period ( mean 26 months ) in patients after heart transplantation and confirmed preserved and normal left ventricular contractility in most cases . |
| 12 | The study found twenty-one students had taken their own lives over a fourteen year period , and more than two hundred and fifty others attempted suicide.Simon Garrett reports . |
| 13 | The study will combine DTI Company Statistics with London Business School 's London Share Price Data Base to provide details on the top executive pay , company characteristics and share price performance for a sample of large companies over a twenty year period . |
| 14 | One company in the food processing and distribution market claimed that it experienced a 50% reduction in absenteeism from 8% to 4% over a three year period . |
| 15 | The scheme was administered by the Brewers ' Society and involved the exchange of some 1,000 pubs over a five year period ( source : British Drink Profile , Halliday Associates , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | Prospective study of patients identified as having severe acute renal failure within a two year period ; subsequent monitoring of outcome for a further two years . |
| 17 | Some of these children , if they were given this attention over a two year period , could overcome this and go into the secondary school able to cope and take their place alongside the other children , and this is desperately important . |
| 18 | In conclusion , this study shows an absolute increase in the incidence of proximal gastric tumours in a defined population over a 20 year period . |
| 19 | The current project is scheduled to take place over a 5 year period , with a budget set at 500k . |
| 20 | If a successful sponsorship deal is arranged , the Liberator will be based in the UK for a two year period , during which time it would be a major attraction at the various events marking the 50th Anniversary of the US 8th Air Force 's arrival in the UK . |
| 21 | In a move that runs counter its commitment to clean up the environment in former East Germany , the German government has agreed to exempt a huge rubbish tip near Schonberg near the Baltic coast from its regulations for a five year period . |
| 22 | did they actually have to claim how much , I mean er you know they produced , cos all we 're saying here is they 're just taking a a nominal amount which they stipulate at the beginning of a three year period , and they 're just gon na take that . |
| 23 | The report looked at the use of DSS to support R & D project selection over a 10 year period for ICI Pharmaceuticals . |
| 24 | His financial controller Roger Richardson came up with a system of false accounting , which enabled them to borrow millions of pounds over a three year period and keep the company going . |
| 25 | Behavioural item check lists were completed by the mothers and teachers which provided assessments of several different behavioural dimensions and behavioural changes over a 5 year period will be analysed with respect to specific life events , life circumstances and primary school experience . |
| 26 | Simulation tends to be used in problems where mathematical solutions are not possible , or where long time scales are involved ( eg predicting — population changes over a 30 year period ) , or where there is no other way of tackling the problem ( eg charting space-satellite trajectories ) . |
| 27 | Question 11 Do you support the Council 's plans for a programme of accounts rules monitoring visits to all sole practitioners within a two year period ? |
| 28 | The evening turned out to be a spectacular climax to a year of consolidated growth for Embassy tennis , a tribute to its commitment to the game over a three year period . |
| 29 | The reforestation programme , targeting to plant 7.5 million trees over a seven year period , is on its way . |
| 30 | What it does n't currently offer is Unix SVR4 compatibility , and Solbourne commits only to a gradual migration to Solaris over a two year period . |