Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] year period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a 43 year period of ownership , Terrt Brain has decided to sell the venerable aircraft . |
| 2 | The Bureau was established at the University of Warwick on 1 September 1983 with a contract for a four year period in the first instance . |
| 3 | The ( n — 3 ) formula was fixed for a 5 year period of time and was subsequently tightened to ( n — 4½ ) per cent , reflecting BT 's high profits and the further likely gains in productivity expected . |
| 4 | Patients were selected from a group of 80 who were admitted to Northwick Park Hospital during a five year period for management of active Crohn 's disease with an elemental diet . |
| 5 | Steers ( 1953 ) has quoted examples from the east coast : in Holderness in a thirty-seven year period towards the end of the last century the average loss from the coast was a strip 65 m ( 215 ft ) wide , or an average annual loss of about 1.75 m ( 6 ft ) , while the district suffering the most severe erosion lost 82 m ( 273 ft ) in the same period . |
| 6 | They estimate that in the 250 largest corporations , a $1,000 increase in corporate value ( defined as share price appreciation plus dividends ) produces an increase in the salary and bonus of the chief executive over a two year period of less than 10 cents , and share options add only another 58 cents . |
| 7 | The report looked at the use of DSS to support R & D project selection over a 10 year period for ICI Pharmaceuticals . |
| 8 | This reading skills course was developed over a four year period at the Faculty of Political Science in Bologna , Italy . |
| 9 | In response to the National Aboriginal Health Strategy the federal government has allocated an additional £108m ( $A232m ) over a five year period from 1990 to 1995 . |
| 10 | The aim of this study was to examine the pattern of acquisition of H pylori infection over a 21 year period in a group of 141 adults who had blood samples and serum stored in 1969 , 1978 , and 1990 . |
| 11 | By measuring H pylori antibody titres in serum samples collected and stored between 1969 and 1990 , we aimed at describing the pattern of acquisition of H pylori infection over a 21 year period in an adult population and thereby to determine the explanation for the higher prevalence of H pylori antibody with increasing age found in Western society . |
| 12 | The plan envisaged realising the desired network over a ten year period at a projected cost of 10 million guilders with a committed programme of annual subsidy from central government . |
| 13 | In 1985 , the Industry and Employment Committee committed funds over a three year period for an initiative in New Technology . |
| 14 | This was how a Florida man described the graffiti with which he defaced a couple of hundred public library books over a three year period between 1977 and 1980 . |
| 15 | Staff at South Tyrone Hospital are now combing through all their patients ' files over a three year period between 1988 and 1990 . |
| 16 | The data were collected over a 22 year period during which the frequency of diagnosis of endometriosis increased dramatically , with , for example , the reported incidence at time of laparoscopic sterilisation rising from <5% to 18% . |