Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transmission often succeeds only after a long incubation period , which decreases substantially after serial passaging . |
| 2 | The Pilkington float process , metal skis , xerography , are success stories , but only after a long time period , much effort and many technical difficulties . |
| 3 | The combination of careful timing by the female cuckoo , together with a short incubation period , ensures that on most occasions this happens . |
| 4 | I 'm not , it 's only over a two week period , they 're jammed in , I 'm getting in several days , all I have is three exams |
| 5 | SCOTVEC 's new system of Advanced Courses will be phased in over a three year period . |
| 6 | But a tachistoscope was a bit like an oscilloscope or a screen where you could flash a word up for a very shore period of time . |
| 7 | When the person is admitted , that key worker will be on duty and will work with them for up to a six week period in constructing their care plan . ’ |
| 8 | Well , in the same way , you see , when we lent six thousand pounds , they paid up back over a ten year period . |
| 9 | An adult of 472 gastric emptying tests carried out over a 10 year period was performed to discover the reasons for requests from consultant clinicians , their anticipation of the results of tests , and the influence of the results upon the subsequent management of their patients . |
| 10 | Formulation of the plan seems to be the result of a complex but highly structured process of consultations and meetings carried out over a six month period , and culminating in the ratification of the plan by the full Politburo . |
| 11 | While TACP Design acted as architects , John Dansken and Purdie acted as Quantity Surveyors with Wimpey Construction managing the building work in the £5m project carried out over a five year period . |
| 12 | Since it was carried out over a four-month summer period ( May-August ) , the practices of these industries with summer peaks will have been better captured than the practices of those with peaks at other times of the year . |
| 13 | If the legislature finds that limitations on the common law principle are needed for reasons of policy or good administration then they can be adopted by legislation , e.g. by a short limitation period , presumptions as to validity , even ( which I mention but do not necessarily think appropriate since the matter has not been discussed ) a power in the courts to limit the effects of any order for recovery comparable to that conferred on the European Court of Justice by article 174 of the E.E.C . |
| 14 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 15 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 16 | Observations from the Earth of the east-west motion of small features in the Jovian clouds led some time ago to a sidereal rotation period for the equatorial region of 9h 50m 30.003s , and 9h 55m 40.632s for the rest of Jupiter . |
| 17 | This post is initially for a six month period |
| 18 | To obtain an assurance from the vendors that they wish to pursue matters on an exclusive basis , at least for a specified time period |
| 19 | At this size , the feeding can be reduced to twice over a three day period . |
| 20 | This was partially accomplished at seven in the morning when the girls ran three times round the school grounds , unless a particularly heavy snowfall made running utterly impossible ; and again in a physical education period in the afternoons . |
| 21 | Trading is prohibited unless the relevant information and its source is publicly disclosed by press release or otherwise within a reasonable time period prior to any purchase or sale . |
| 22 | A group of 100 children aged initially two years will be studied longitudinally over a 30 month period , with the aim of identifying the social and cognitive factors influencing the way in which nursery rhymes and counting sequences are learned . |