Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] period [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a twenty-year period of formal civil conflict . |
| 2 | In particular , the New Moon present in your own birth sign on the 29th will trigger off a new period of some really quite remarkable and reassuring developments in your very personal life . |
| 3 | One of the most important limitations on statutory safeguards is the insistence that , to qualify for most rights , you must have built up a specified period of continuous employment . |
| 4 | Course adjustments may be put into effect immediately in the case of full-time courses , while , in order to protect the interests of part-time students locked into the Institution 's examination programme , adequate forward notice and even a transitional period with parallel diets , have had to be offered . |
| 5 | This pattern continued relatively undisturbed until 1959 , when a short period of major upheaval began . |