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 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 In Spencer v Marchington [ 1988 ] IRLR 392 the plaintiff was employed by the defendant for a fixed period of one year .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 By then the ethnic composition of its native population was multifarious and complex , being the result of a long period of prehistoric development .
19 He suggested that a day or so of drunken dissipation was the result of a previous period of intense labour .
20 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 .
21 In fact it is a remnant of a disastrous period in the history of European felines .
22 As an ex-member of 64 Squadron I would appreciate this recognition of a memorable period of RAF history .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 er when Pearl , my other daughter came over Christmas , course Andrea was more or less still going through a bit of a rough period with between her grandfather and her , you know ?
28 Although fixed terms allow for the job to end through a ‘ natural break ’ , the expiry of a fixed period of employment still counts as a dismissal for some legal purposes , such as the right to claim unfair dismissal or redundancy pay .
29 Although fixed terms allow for the job to end through a ‘ natural break ’ , the expiry of a fixed period of employment still counts as a dismissal for some legal purposes , such as the right to claim unfair dismissal or redundancy pay .
30 The first step in achieving this objective is to guarantee a place on Employment Training ( ET ) for everyone who has been out of work for a long period of time .
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