Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a period [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you see that maybe , if at some time in the future , you do have er , some bad health , or perhaps get involved in an accident , that after a period of time , it might be difficult to actually find the money to pay for this plan we 're establishing tonight ? |
| 2 | Now , this happens in nearly all er cases o of tuberculosis but , interesting , the vast majority of infections microbacterium tuberculosis are asymptomatic and the reason for that is that after a period of growth and dissemination does not lead to clinical symptoms , cell mediated immunity , C M I , comes into comes into play and you end up with a balance between the macrophages , and fi and M T B , where there 's a constant turnover of macrophages dying , and M T B winning out . |
| 3 | Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington . |
| 4 | From April 1993 , it will be subject to a period of consultation prior to implementation in the UK . |
| 5 | If you are unsuccessful over a period of time there 's always a chance you will part company . ’ |
| 6 | The cause of deterioration is mainly due to the covering becoming thin and brittle because of weathering i.e. the action of heat and cold over a period of time . |
| 7 | We may explain the fact that the production units of a particular industry have grown larger over a period of time by appealing to the economies this yields , and in doing so claim that a cause ( increase in scale ) occurred because of its propensity to have a certain effect ( economies of scale ) . |
| 8 | Under both Buildings and Contents sections , if the home has been insufficiently furnished for full habitation or unoccupied for a period in excess of 30 days , then there is no cover for vandalism or acts of malicious persons . |
| 9 | Under both Buildings and Contents sections , if the home has been insufficiently furnished for full habitation or unoccupied for a period in excess of 30 days , there is no cover for bursting , leaking or overflowing , etc . |
| 10 | Under both Buildings and Contents sections , if the home has been insufficiently furnished for full habitation or unoccupied for a period in excess of 30 days , there is no cover for leakage of oil . |
| 11 | However , it is not a particularly difficult race and the brindle who made his comeback in the Dundalk ‘ 525 ’ International after a period at stud , looks set to qualify safely . |
| 12 | You can work out that over a period of time you would have somewhere in the region of fifteen assignments during the year guaranteed . |
| 13 | salesman 's gon na do that over a period of time . |
| 14 | In nursing libraries a set of film loops of practical procedures can be made available , either for revision or to illustrate procedures that have not been available during a period of ward experience . |
| 15 | Britain therefore experienced a credit squeeze in the early 1990s during a period of recession in much the same way — and for much the same reasons — that she experienced a credit boom during the period of growth and ‘ overheating ’ in the mid-1980s . |
| 16 | Deciding how best to invest personal savings is far more complex and time-consuming in a period of inflation than in a period of stable prices . |
| 17 | The European Community has put in place a range of measures which are capable over a period of time of leading to a solution . |
| 18 | His studies were interrupted during 1917–18 by a period of war service as a surgeon probationer on a destroyer and then resumed at St Bartholomew 's Hospital in London where he qualified MRCS , LRCP in 1920 . |
| 19 | As foreign issues have also grown rapidly following the abolition in 1979 of exchange controls , it is no exaggeration to see the 1980s as a period of renaissance for the sterling bond market . |