Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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1 | A case for seasonal adjustment exists where recognisable seasonal variations occur year after year with a fixed period and where the increases and decreases occur at about the same time and in about the same proportion each year . |
2 | It will all end up in those grim audio-visual departments where it will eventually be auctioned off for peanuts during a cost-saving period . |
3 | Records may have to be kept for reference over a long period of time and therefore they must be adequately protected . |
4 | Under Resolution 44/312 of Nov. 20 , the Assembly elected former Norwegian Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for a four-year period from Jan. 1 , 1990 . |
5 | During his reign he added vast territories to the Frankish kingdom that he had inherited ; Lombardy ( the traditional enemy of both Franks and papacy ) , parts of Spain , all of Saxony over a prolonged period of campaigning , and Slavonic regions of the Drave and Elbe . |
6 | Objectives ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) could consist of checks after a preliminary period of revision or practice carried out by the student on her own . |
7 | Equally , it is not unknown for a partner gradually to lose interest in mundane administrative matters : often enough the problems that this can cause are exacerbated by his co-partners allowing him to escape his share of responsibility over a long period . |
8 | Patients in their 80s now constitute 3.5% of those undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting at the Mayo Clinic ; 79% of 115 survivors were free of angina after a mean period of 29 months . |
9 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
10 | Call rate ( number of calls in a given period ) |
11 | Within marriage , in Gorer 's group , the most frequent rate of intercourse — the number of times within a given period in which intercourse generally took place — was once or twice a week , in about a third of the marriages concerned . |
12 | The landlord requires security of income for a long period , and this is specially desirable where the landlord is an investing institution which pays out pensions or insurance policies , because a period of twenty-five years ' secure income facilitates the actuarial calculations necessary in order to determine the level of payments which the landlord can make . |
13 | First , the payment of this sum of money over a short period would have a considerable inflationary effect . |
14 | In 1923 the USA and Britain reached an agreement for repayment of debts over a 62-year period at 3.3% interest . |
15 | Our study design explains how we could detect a significant difference in urinary albumin excretion between two treatments in a small number of subjects for a short period of time : monthly measurements over 12 months increased the precision and consequently the power of our trial . |
16 | It may also be possible to argue that where the party has failed to respond to a notice of assignment from the purchaser , such lack of action over a long period is an implied consent where that party has dealt with the purchaser after completion . |
17 | The current Governor-General , Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo , would assume the functions of president for a transitional period , the duration of which was not fixed . |
18 | The last Governor-General , Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo , assumed the position of President for a transitional period expected to last three months . |
19 | The giant ground sloths and armadillos of the past were clearly South American in character , showing that this continent had been populated by unique families of animals over a vast period of time . |
20 | Nevertheless we are always faced with a contradiction between rates of deposition and the known thickness of rock for a particular period of geological time . |
21 | The normal reaction of all parturient females is to seek a degree of isolation for a transient period . |
22 | For example , take a company which displays a doubling of turnover over a five-year period using a column graph ( vertical bar chart ) . |
23 | The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer . |
24 | A stability test involves the accumulation of a substantial amount of data over a prolonged period of time and may require the production of reports at several stages of the test . |
25 | Each of the companies pays a fee of £225,000 for a three-year period : the two-year training and preparation period and the nine-month duration of the race . |
26 | There is an average number of accesses during a specified period of about sixty-five . |
27 | Now er I have to warn him there are that sort of conduct has been indulged in to the detriment of the people of Highfields over a significant period by the Labour party . |
28 | It will be difficult or impossible to establish a course of dealing on the basis of a small number of transactions over a long period . |
29 | The father , Mr P , also an English incomer to Orkney , had carried out various forms of abuse over a long period of time . |
30 | The first step in achieving this objective is to guarantee a place on Employment Training ( ET ) for everyone who has been out of work for a long period of time . |