Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 2 | The last US military personnel based in the Philippines were withdrawn on Nov. 24 , thereby ending a presence which had existed since 1898 ( broken only by a three-year period of Japanese occupation during the Pacific War ) . |
| 3 | Homicide , on the other hand , is interpreted as a consequence of distinctive aspects of Sinhalese culture which changed little during the colonial period . |
| 4 | A 12 volt battery is really essential for the mechanical action of the trimmer to work effectively over a long period . |
| 5 | All ten residents had been long-term patients in a large psychiatric hospital , were severely disabled and had been discharged only after a lengthy period of active rehabilitation . |
| 6 | The era of class confrontation in Britain 's coalfields had been confined mainly to the short period 1910–26 . |
| 7 | Interestingly , the use of key rings is confined solely to the Roman period . |
| 8 | Manorial courts continued to meet regularly throughout the early-modern period and in many places the quality of record-keeping remained high right through to the eighteenth century and sometimes beyond . |
| 9 | But this will only occur if the style of running the business , the skills applied to the business and above all the cost base of the business , have been attacked ruthlessly in the interim period . |
| 10 | When a particular task requires expatriates to work overseas for a short period of time , it is common for employers to hire people with the necessary skills on short , fixed-term contracts . |
| 11 | If all the etch-resist is completely stripped away in a short period of time , then perhaps the whole board has been exposed at some stage to too much UV light . |
| 12 | For the concession of hereditary tenure , though made piecemeal over a long period of time , was universal by the end of the century . |
| 13 | If on the other hand , a stress is applied slowly over a longer period the material flows like a viscous liquid so that the spherical shape is soon lost if left to stand for some time . |
| 14 | Grouse shooting , for example , occurs only during a fixed period each year , whilst military training is carried out periodically throughout the year . |
| 15 | The rate and physical extent of suburban and ‘ exurban ’ growth accelerated rapidly in the inter-war period , with the sharp increase in car ownership , but it has taken on even greater numerical and spatial dimensions since the early 1950s . |
| 16 | Broadly speaking , the official statistics indicate that there is an increasing rate of crime , and that the increase has accelerated rapidly in the post-war period , especially since the mid-1950s . |
| 17 | Why has service employment risen rapidly in the post-war period ? |
| 18 | Having risen strongly over the post-war period until that year , growth stopped ; there have been major fluctuations since , but the total has never been so high again . |
| 19 | Chiddingfold pushed hard in the second period of extra time , and Peter Liles saved 'Mill with a super save off his elbow , flicking a goalbound shot just over the bar . |
| 20 | It is common for reviewers to cite evidence of effects on physical pathology from a study by Cassel ( 1976 ) who reported an increased prevalence of hypertension and stroke in groups deficient in social supports , and from work by Berkman and Syme ( 1979 ) who reported a raised mortality among adults deficient in social ties in a sample of 6,928 individuals studied prospectively over a nine-year period . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , Turner was looking ahead to the postwar period . |
| 22 | Duncan Smith , defending , said : ‘ It appeared to be a fairly well laid out scheme which was used successfully over a considerable period of time . |
| 23 | New towns continued to be founded right through the medieval period though after the early thirteenth century the changing economic conditions were no longer ideal for their development and the process tailed oft Queenborough , Kent ( 1368 ) is said to be the latest medieval planned town , though Bewdley , Worcestershire ( soon after 1477 ) , is probably the last one . |
| 24 | The cost of the replacement programme will be between £12 and £15,000 per annum from 1994 , unless inflation rates vary greatly in the intervening period . |
| 25 | On Feb. 16 , 1990 , it was reported that the Council of Ministers had earlier in the month made moves to abolish martial law regulations enacted originally during the 1958-61 period of Syrian-Egyptian unity [ see pp. 16005 ; 18437-40 ] . |
| 26 | The overall guiding role of the party was therefore likely to meet with resistance at some stage and there are signs that this indeed happened increasingly in the post-Stalinist period . |
| 27 | If you are going abroad for an extended period , the other option is to take your dog with you . |
| 28 | This may not prove to be a serious problem , but having it happen twice in a short period of time makes me wonder . |
| 29 | The complexity was intended to last only for a transitional period . |
| 30 | According to Earth Report ( 1988 ) , some 100 million t of nutrient-rich silt were deposited annually in the pre-Aswan period but is now reduced to just a few tomes per year , necessitating extensive fertiliser use at considerable cost and , presumably , inviting long-term eutrophication problems that characterise many developing countries ( section 6.3.1 ) . |