Example sentences of "[verb] place [prep] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | takes place during a particular period and in a particular environment . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the changes will take place over a four-year period . |
| 3 | The printing of De revolutionibus took place during a tense period when the freedom of Protestants and the independence of Nuremberg were being threatened by Catholic authorities . |
| 4 | It is accordingly advisable for the lease to contain a right to terminate the lease if reinstatement has not taken place within a reasonable period . |
| 5 | Iron fittings could replace wooden components gradually , allowing major alterations to take place over a long period . |
| 6 | It had to take place over a long period , in the face of a prodigious number of uncontrolled variables which were likely to confuse the outcome . |
| 7 | Mr Jack Adams , chairman of the union side , said that action would have to take place within a 28-day period from yesterday 's anouncement or it would be ruled out of order . |