Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Routes to England and France are normally flown at flight levels 50 and 40 respectively , and present an opportunity for a reasonable period in cruise mode . |
| 2 | They had a mortgage with the Woolwich and an endowment for a fixed period of twenty five years |
| 3 | As we suggested in the introduction , " temporary workers are normally thought of as those who are not engaged on indefinite contract of employment , and the obvious opposite of an indefinite contract of employment is a contract for a fixed period of time . |
| 4 | The solicitors at the end of the chain are asked to release their contract for a specified period of time to the solicitors acting for the buyer next in line . |
| 5 | The Bill sought powers of compulsory purchase for a five-year period of all privately owned property on the site . |
| 6 | A logical consequence occurs when the parent intervenes and ( in the example above ) removes the toy while indicating that the child has ‘ chosen ’ or decided to play without the toy for a specified period of time because of his or her actions ( it is a form of response-cost ) . |
| 7 | The usual system is for the client to say how much he will spend as a working budget during a certain period of time . |
| 8 | Yet British Rail says that it will have to offer temporary rehousing for an extended period to many people who will be next door to the works because of the extent and nature of the noise and vibration that they will experience . |
| 9 | Section 5 covers convictions for minor offences , e.g. a failure to deliver a return , account or document to the Registrar of Companies , and may lead to disqualification for a maximum period of five years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Despite objections from cyclists and disabled people , the scheme is to be put into action for an experimental period of 18 months . |
| 12 | The Rights of Way Act 1932 provides that where a way over land had been actually enjoyed by the public as of right and without interruption for a full period of 20 years , the way shall be deemed to have been dedicated as a highway , unless there is sufficient evidence that there was no intention during the 20-year period to dedicate it . |
| 13 | In Spencer v Marchington [ 1988 ] IRLR 392 the plaintiff was employed by the defendant for a fixed period of one year . |
| 14 | Having defended the exclusion of capital punishment at Second Reading , the Home Secretary and his Ministerial colleagues conceded a free vote on a new clause moved at Report stage by a private member , Sydney Silverman , which had the effect of suspending the death penalty for murder for an experimental period of five years . |
| 15 | At this time , some ozone-depleted air may drift out from the hole , passing over Australia and New Zealand and exposing that continent for a short period to increased ultraviolet radiation penetrating through the thinned ozone layer . |
| 16 | The centre is a partnership between the University of Stirling and CILT ( London ) , and has project funding from the Scottish Office Education Department for an initial period of three years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In response the Interior Minister , José Luis Corcuera , on Feb. 24 challenged ETA to suspend violence for a six-month period as proof of its new willingness to talk . |
| 19 | Similarly , it is shrewd of him to play for the internationalist vote after a prolonged period of sullen Little Englandism during which Labour threatened to withdraw from the Common Market and called into question this country 's role within Nato . |
| 20 | Consequently many Greek writers of the fifth century and later realized that their own society was the end-product of a long period of advance . |
| 21 | In any case , a study of neolithic Early Minoan buildings very strongly implies that the temples were not an implant but the result of a long period of indigenous development . |
| 22 | By then the ethnic composition of its native population was multifarious and complex , being the result of a long period of prehistoric development . |
| 23 | He suggested that a day or so of drunken dissipation was the result of a previous period of intense labour . |
| 24 | Professor John in a seminal article stressed the great importance of the coincidence of a modest rate of population growth , putting no general pressure on a food supply expanded by a generation of agricultural improvement , with the bounty of a long period of good harvests . |
| 25 | In fact it is a remnant of a disastrous period in the history of European felines . |
| 26 | As an ex-member of 64 Squadron I would appreciate this recognition of a memorable period of RAF history . |
| 27 | On 7 June 1972 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ( OSHA ) issued a standard on asbestos exposure at work which took effect over a four-year period to 1 July 1976 . |
| 28 | Failure to extend the agreement would have meant selling the buffer stock over a 4@1/2-year period from October , with potentially damaging consequences for prices , which were already at their lowest point for many years after five seasons of glut . |
| 29 | If this analysis is accepted , then it is clear that the attempt over a long period of time to protect the position of those living in privately rented accommodation has failed and has , in fact , made the position worse . |
| 30 | To take the philosophical one first , it was actually Nietzsche 's isolation at a critical period of his life that helped to create the need which Schopenhauer was to satisfy . |