Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , the maintenance of that support through a difficult period will reflect back credit on banking as a whole . |
| 2 | The usual system is for the client to say how much he will spend as a working budget during a certain period of time . |
| 3 | At this time , some ozone-depleted air may drift out from the hole , passing over Australia and New Zealand and exposing that continent for a short period to increased ultraviolet radiation penetrating through the thinned ozone layer . |
| 4 | Instead that sense has to be nurtured by more direct experience over a long period of time . |
| 5 | Indeed , as the indices stubbornly refused to improve , there seemed little prospect that interest rates would not remain at this historically high level for a long period to come . |
| 6 | Typically , individual therapy involves 12–20 sessions of 45–60 minutes over a three-month period . |
| 7 | According to a spokeswoman for the Fraud Squad , he is alleged to have stolen more than £130,000 from the Inland Revenue over a four-year period . |
| 8 | By adding these potatoes , a bulky food of reasonably high-fibre content , they actually lost some weight over a three-month period ! |
| 9 | Having a naturally restrained appetite , which probably means that you are only a few pounds overweight and have gained this weight over a lengthy period . |
| 10 | As an ex-member of 64 Squadron I would appreciate this recognition of a memorable period of RAF history . |
| 11 | According to government estimates , the Soufriere geothermal project could potentially provide electricity for around a quarter of the island 's population and saved about US$250 million in foreign exchange over a 30-year period . |
| 12 | The areas which do not receive intervention can then serve as a basis for comparison with the targeted areas after a suitable period of time has elapsed ( see Table 6.1 ) . |
| 13 | We want to research whether this campaign over a short period of time can improve this situation . ’ |
| 14 | Once the eggs have hatched the tiny fry are without parental care and become free swimming for a brief period during which time they must find their own host anemone . |
| 15 | I have not spoken in this place for a considerable period of time . |
| 16 | The explanation is that , given a totally unvarying diet over a long period of time , especially if it is from kittenhood right through into adult life , a cat 's ‘ food variety mechanism ’ gets worn down and is finally switched off altogether . |
| 17 | A certain degree of depression regularly accompanies serious physical illness ( Greer , 1985 ) , and one in four working-class women with at least three young children at home experience clinical depression at some point during a one-year period ( Brown and Harris , 1978 ) . |
| 18 | The Middle Ages and the Renaissance — a wider ranging historical examination of a formative period , which preceded the beginnings of our ‘ Modern World ’ , yet possessed a very distinctive character and ethos of its own . |
| 19 | Ford shut down some plants for a two-week period . |
| 20 | His untiring efforts over a 27-year period include developing services for the mentally handicapped in Cleveland , including setting up a joint unit of Venture Scouts and Ranger Guides . |
| 21 | The remedies adopted reflected very strongly the work of Heath 's backroom team of the late sixties and were intended to ‘ remove the need for continual changes for a considerable period in the future ’ . |
| 22 | In this case , the researcher asks the subjects of the research to keep a detailed diary over a given period . |
| 23 | But it is encapsulated in the phrase that she was subjected to sadistic behaviour over a lengthy period of time which she accepted because she was in love with him . |
| 24 | Occupational , family and residential histories over a twenty-year period will elucidate and Aberdonians ' relationship to and experience of the oil industry across generations . |
| 25 | These books are both related to the exhibition On The Passage of a Few People Through a Brief Period of Time presented at the Musée national d'art moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou , the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London , and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston , Massachusetts during 1989 — 90 . |
| 26 | The National Reconciliation Document encapsulating the Taif Accords , which had been ratified by the Lebanese parliament on Nov. 5 , 1989 , had stated that the Syrian forces would assist the Lebanese government " to extend the authority of the Lebanese state within a limited period not exceeding two years after the ratification of the National Reconciliation Document , the election of the President of the Republic , the formation of the Government of Reconciliation and the adoption of the political reforms constitutionally " . |
| 27 | He went on ‘ improving ’ this poem over a long period of years so that the text usually printed shows many alterations from the original . |
| 28 | The physical and social legacies of a heavy period of de-industrialization were massive , although they varied a little between areas ( Chapter 11 ) . |
| 29 | Jean Stuart has been diagnosed as suffering from crural neuropathy after a considerable period of weakness and loss of balance . |
| 30 | If employees had to move into temporary accommodation while trying to find new housing , they received a tax-free allowance towards the cost of this accommodation for a maximum period of 13 weeks . |