Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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1 | Young children do imitate the aggressive acts of televised models as much as live models ; furthermore , this effect persists over a considerable period of time and is particularly pronounced when the aggressive model is portrayed as successful . |
2 | The second deterrent is a financial one : course participants do not have to pay fees , since the course itself is financed by the DES , but they do have to fund their living costs over a ten-week period — a not inconsiderable financial commitment . |
3 | This task of considering key moments can be a very valuable way of recapping from one session to the next when the drama extends over a long period , as it usually does once it becomes part of a project or topic work . |
4 | If a statutory demand is served , the debtor has only a limited period within which to apply to set it aside . |
5 | For monthly savings , Mr Murrell recommends Friendly Society plans over a 10-year period because the money grows tax free . |
6 | As discussed in Chapter 7 , ageing increases the tendency for us to become ‘ larks ’ — and some of us are ‘ larks ’ anyway — because the body clock has then a free-running period that is below the average for the population as a whole . |
7 | The disparities in overall changes in assumed unit costs over a three-year period are quite remarkable . |
8 | The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority 's excess rent allowance operates over a nine-year period . |
9 | The examples all have the same structure : a well-defined quantity is recorded at successive equally-spaced time points over a specific period . |
10 | Where production extends over a long period as in construction industries and shipbuilding , measurement of work in progress has to be achieved by other means . |