Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More sophisticated weapons like throwing sticks and bows and arrows came only after a further long period of brain development . |
| 2 | Andersson has spent only one week of a planned three-week period on trial at St James ' Park . |
| 3 | Note that the sheet and the fields in the upper inset of Figure 9.2 correspond to one-half of a sidereal axial period of Jupiter different from the situation in the main body of the Figure . |
| 4 | Following the elapse of a mandatory three-month period after notification of the cancellation , Czechoslovakia would henceforth be able to fix its own exchange rates . |
| 5 | Its surface bears some evidence for an early period of crater erasure , and for a long subsequent period of slight internal contraction , presumably the result of cooling . |
| 6 | In order to ensure a more appropriate distribution across the states of production , prices and a rational pattern of modernisation , the treaty schedule called for a five-year transitional period of two distinct stages . |
| 7 | Havel was re-elected by the Federal Assembly for a transitional two-year period on July 5 . |
| 8 | Harsh measures — putting an entire community under an absolute curfew for a continuous lengthy period of time , demolishing homes , uprooting olive or citrus trees , physical intimidation and terror tactics employed by raiding army units , shooting , killing , cutting off water or electricity supplies and telephone links to villages or towns , mass arrests , intimidatory interrogation techniques — can either create a temporary lull or activate an eruption . |
| 9 | As a result , No. 3440 will enter traffic on Saturday July 18 for a 10-day intensive period of running until Monday July 27 inclusive and the promise of some spectacular runs by the former GWR flier . |
| 10 | For a keplerian orbital period of 500s , however , if the X-ray emission comes from outside 3 Schwarzschild radii , the black-hole mass can be no larger than 10 6 solar masses ( ) . |
| 11 | In a speech later on the same day , Rabin referred to the " autonomy " to be ceded during a five-year transitional period to the Palestinians of the occupied territories , and emphasized that by " autonomy … |
| 12 | The bag and its contents , together valued at £35 , were stolen sometime during a 25 minute period from 2.55 p.m . |
| 13 | During a fleeting unrestricted period in 1985 she was named co-president of the United Democratic Front , the mainstream anti-apartheid organisation inside South Africa . |
| 14 | Ninety five per cent of the bursts occurred during a 15 minute period before the onset of phase 3 of the migrating motor complex in the antral or upper small intestinal area , or during the lower oesophageal sphincter component of the migrating motor complex . |
| 15 | A third kind of explanation for the relationship between income and age is that it is the result of a cohort effect : that is , older elderly people are poorer because they were born and spent their working lives during a different historical period from the ‘ young ’ elderly . |
| 16 | A Scottish-born CA and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants he may be but , apart from a brief initial period in a practising firm and then Lothian Regional Council , before coming to Provincial three years ago he had fairly rapidly made a successful impact in senior general management in retail banking , with TSB in Scotland . |
| 17 | The exhibition concentrates upon a critical seven-year period in the evolution of Pop Art and is part of Schimmel 's interest in the transitional stages of modern American art . |
| 18 | They measured long-term performance by adding the DCF over a projected five-year period to the discounted future market value ( DFMV ) of the unit at the end of that period . |
| 19 | He then turned on Chlothar , but his own death , from dysentery , and the subsequent elimination of his family in 613 , led to the reunification of the Frankish kingdom and brought to a close one period of Merovingian civil war . |
| 20 | Unlike its counterpart in Lithuania , however , which had split decisively from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in December 1989 [ see pp. 37128-29 ; 37168 ] , the Estonian CP decided on a six-month transitional period before taking a final vote on the issue of the party 's future relations with the CPSU . |
| 21 | A burst was defined as a group of two or more contractions separated from preceding and following contractions by a short silent period of at least 10 seconds . |