Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [prep] a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman the , the mechanism is well practised and widely known it starts with the draft two two B in the January the Committee and after a period of about five to six months ' consultation within which the board programme of work of all capitalists are listed and put out to the community for response through their elected organization as to acceptability , five points of detail who were at relatively hirer one man to speak |
| 2 | Also studied were the consistency of performance of individuals within and between topics , between mode of assessment and over a period of time . |
| 3 | This stage is followed by a search for means to implement the desired change and over a period of time a cycle of problems are handled by this method . |
| 4 | This may be in a particular meeting or over a period of time . |
| 5 | These relationships assume great importance and for a period of time they are probably the most significant ones we have . |
| 6 | The third type requires such intervention but over a period of years , usually nearly into adolescence , and often there is never complete resolution . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies . |
| 9 | Her husband began to complain of headaches and lethargy and after a period of investigation in hospital it was discovered that he had a malignant cerebral tumour . |
| 10 | The inhalation of iodine-131 could cause thyroid cancer in people as far away as 24 km , and there is a 20 per cent probability that over a period of 10–20 years between 1000 and 10,000 people could develop thyroid cancer ( less than 10 per cent of these would be fatal cancers ) . |
| 11 | Enormous growth in this business occurred through the substitution phase and for a period of some years the business was extremely profitable . |
| 12 | Historically , the minimum subscription Association 's affiliated organizations and clubs has been set that twice the personal member 's subscription and after a period of two years ' grace it 's the Council 's wish that this balance is re-established so that the relativity returns to that which existed prior to the increase in subscriptions that was proposed at the A G M in nineteen ninety one . |