Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] a period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And Financial Assurance ( 081–367 6000 ) was paying 8.05% on £5,000 or more for a period of four years .
2 They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home .
3 And eventually after a period of time that ins outer insulation will wear down , it will fray and it will break and it will expose the live and the neutral wires until , unfortunately sometimes , it will be a little bit too late .
4 However , fearing that the UN force would legitimize the loss of its territory to Serbia , Croatia also continued to insist that the force should be deployed only on the 560-km front lines and only for a period of six months .
5 It is much better to build up endurance levels gradually and gently over a period of weeks and months .
6 A typical building of 10 storeys will sway back and forth in a period of 1 second , giving it a natural frequency of 1 cycle per second or 1 hertz .
7 ( 3 ) They would have free elections — but only after a period of institutionalising the revolution had been completed .
8 You will need to spray at three day intervals at least three or four times , but preferably over a period of several weeks to control any new pests as soon as they hatch , before they can reproduce .
9 On the basis of privately commissioned opinion polls showing an increasing majority in favour of some measure of divorce legislation , FitzGerald agreed with his cabinet to proceed with a referendum on whether to change the constitution so as to allow divorce for marriages irretrievably broken down , though only after a period of five years ' actual breakdown and legal separation .
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