Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Periods of low income when workers are in their 50s and 60s can only mean a sustained period of poverty in old age itself . |
| 2 | In Britain most children have already undergone a long period of conservative management at the hands of their general practitioners , often with trials of non-operative intervention using long term antibiotics . |
| 3 | They went on to form a government led by Edouard Balladur of the RPR thus ushering a second period of cohabitation of a right-wing government with a socialist President ( François Mitterrand ) . |
| 4 | Thus began a second period of explosive growth in Lothern . |
| 5 | From 1981 to 1985 the figure had fallen to about 0.33 per cent per annum , and London actually gained population in 1984 , thus reversing a long period of decline . |
| 6 | Either way , the outcome is a marked legacy in the economic landscape , representing today the ‘ continuing influence of Britain 's historical international position ’ ( Massey , 1986 ) : by the time of the 1930s depression , some of the greatest industrial regions of Britain , the specialist production regions of textiles , steel , ships and coal exports , with their ports , had already entered a long period of continuous decline . |
| 7 | The purchaser of shares usually receives a short period of interest-free credit due to settlement lag . |
| 8 | Robert always had a free period after lunch . |
| 9 | –Then followed a sustained period of pressure on the St Albans ' goal which culminated in a 25-yard shot from Springett which was well saved by Westwood . |
| 10 | He also received a three-year period of probation — during which he would be required to perform 1,800 hours of community service per year — on a more general conspiracy charge . |
| 11 | Latvia also declared a transitional period for negotiations on independence , as Estonia had done on March 30 [ see p. 37322 and below ] , but without rejecting the validity of the Soviet Constitution and laws , provided that they were not in conflict with Latvia 's laws and sovereign rights . |
| 12 | He probably kept a further period of residence at Oxford in the 1660s , and at an unknown date became domestic chaplain to Sir Orlando Bridgeman [ q.v. ] , lord keeper of the Great Seal . |
| 13 | Or we might wear the radical ‘ reflexive ’ pair , whose lenses have been recently polished to a fine smoothness by those same trendy academics who have now entered a middle-age period of intellectual enlightenment ! |
| 14 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |
| 15 | All major political leaders in India expressed their horror at Gandhi 's assassination and the government immediately declared a seven-day period of state mourning . |
| 16 | But this was not before State subsidies , both direct and indirect , had first fuelled and then maintained a remarkable period of private development . |
| 17 | On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales . |
| 18 | There would then follow a transitional period of up to five years during which " matters arising " from secession would have to be resolved , such as the status of USSR military facilities on the republic 's territory , ownership of economic plant and infrastructure , material and financial settlements ( including compensation to citizens wishing to remain in the USSR and therefore requiring resettlement outside the seceding republic ) , and the status of any territories ceded to the republic after its original accession to the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | There then followed a long period of muddle and confusion not helped by the fact that no one had a recent photograph of Blake and that it was a Saturday evening . |
| 20 | Even after the Union of the Crowns there remained a long period during which old traditions and suspicions simmered uneasily , and old local enmities flared up at the slightest provocation . |
| 21 | Everyone else has a standard period of notice . |
| 22 | Moreover , this independence ( or , more correctly , this integrity ) again suggests a particular period of production : probably the early mid-fourth century . |
| 23 | The elections are likely to return a Centre Right majority in the National Assembly , and France would therefore begin a new period of ‘ cohabitation ’ , that is , a President and a Prime Minister from different parties . |
| 24 | They could therefore spend a considerable period of time in the towers , in full uniform , in temperatures of anything up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit , or more . |