Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] period [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the County Court grants a new lease to the tenant it may do so for a period not exceeding 14 years . |
| 2 | Much of the distribution of population was built up in a period when British industry enjoyed competitive supremacy in international trade . |
| 3 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 4 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 5 | The same was true of cattle in much of Europe at the time , and probably reflected neglected animal husbandry and a failure to breed selectively in a period when crop-growing was far more important than livestock . |
| 6 | Now if we can go back to the period when the eighty odd agreements was developed into one national agreement , it seemed to break up what we would term a big happy family . |
| 7 | Each area is reviewed separately for the period when the adults were children , life today and how that same area of life will be when the children of the village become adults . |
| 8 | If , as recent work has suggested ( Ch.1 ) , the sustained growth of population from the doldrums of the fifteenth century began to affect the economy in the early years of the sixteenth century rather than previously , this would come close to the period when the volume of criticism of enclosures became more vocal and more explicit . |
| 9 | They may also trade commercially for a period not exceeding 13 weeks , during the course of their ACE employment . |
| 10 | All four Gospels hark back to a period long before their own composition — perhaps as long as sixty or seventy years . |
| 11 | They represent a continuity of worship and music stretching back to a period well before the Reformation . |