Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slumptown is a community which experienced a brief period of industrial expansion before a rapid economic decline . |
| 2 | Viennese modernism , which had a briefer period of flourishing than the modernism of other great cities , was also the least oppositional , the least social-critical , of modernisms . |
| 3 | Mortar is applied to such areas as will be tessellated within a few hours , and certainly within the day ( hence giornata , for mortar patches which represent a completed period of work ) . |
| 4 | Organised at state level , the Guard is composed of part-timers who undergo a statutory period of training with the regular Army . |
| 5 | No , move on then , number three , in what circumstances should you recommend a deferred period of thirteen weeks instead of twenty six weeks ? |
| 6 | Those farmers ( 25% ) who chose a selected period of the winter were referring to the mid-October to early January period . |
| 7 | It was still the case that a white-collar woman employee within the public sector ( including , now , the nationalised industries ) had reasonably good pension prospects provided that she completed a lengthy period of full-time service . |
| 8 | Patients who require a short period of removal from stress . |
| 9 | If you are over 45 or 50 , you are unlikely to find it worthwhile , unless you had a considerable period of paying full contributions before you got married . |
| 10 | You have a reasonable period of time to decide whether or not to give up your job , but it is not easy to forecast what will be regarded as ‘ reasonable ’ . |
| 11 | we have a quiet period for a while and then all of a sudden they all crop up together . |
| 12 | There followed a long period of explanation of what we did followed by negotiations on what we would have to do to meet the standard . |
| 13 | There followed a seven-year period in which he wrote nothing except ‘ two or three little presentation pieces which occasion called for ’ . |
| 14 | There followed a lengthy period of inactivity and decay , until the early 1920s saw the establishment of a saw milling business , set up by the Joiner family . |
| 15 | After a century there began a long period of sea warfare and skirmishing over the north of Ulthuan . |
| 16 | These long-term priming effects are explained , within the logogen model , by assuming that after threshold has been reached activation dies down rapidly at first over a period of a second or so , but does not quite reach the normal resting level : there follows a long period during which there is very slow decay of residual activation — a period measured in hours or even days . |
| 17 | They spend a short period at home full time while their children are small , then look for a job that will fit in with their family commitments . |
| 18 | It is more likely , however , that it represents a short period of dry climate when there were frequent brush fires . |
| 19 | If we make the more realistic assumption that it takes a finite period of time then we have to take into account the fact that replacement of the lower lithosphere by hot asthenosphere during extension will lead to heat being conducted laterally into unextended , and therefore unthinned , lithosphere , as well as vertically into the overlying upper lithosphere ( Fig. 4.17 ( C ) ) . |