Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] period in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It included the following , and the list provides an indication of requirements after a lengthy period in the desert : 400 gallons of petrol , rations , 2 tow chains , 2 tins of Lockheed brake fluid , 8 jeep spare wheels and tyres , 200 1 lb. plastic bombs and fuses , beer , cigarettes , rum and 2 crates of lime powder . |
| 2 | After a further period in the translation agency of a chemical firm , she returned to England and had a child . |
| 3 | G/C Ilbery , now a doctor living in Australia , was the last man to fly an operational sortie from the now-abandoned airfield in the spring of 1945 , at the end of a bloody period in the anti-shipping strikes from Dallachy and nearby RAF Banff . |
| 4 | He flew from London to Sweden at the beginning of December , and at the ceremony on 10 December he was described as " a leader and champion of a new period in the long history of the world 's poetry " . |
| 5 | In fact it is a remnant of a disastrous period in the history of European felines . |
| 6 | Those and many other pressures may distract them from remaining for a long period in the Territorial Army . |
| 7 | The remedies adopted reflected very strongly the work of Heath 's backroom team of the late sixties and were intended to ‘ remove the need for continual changes for a considerable period in the future ’ . |
| 8 | Only for a short period in the mid-1980s , when commodity prices and demand for semi-conductors slumped , did Malaysia risk hitting its borrowing ceiling . |
| 9 | For a short period in the reign of Selim I ( 918–26/1512–20 ) there existed a third kazaskerlik , for the Arab and Persian lands , hut this was , after a few years , combined with the kazaskerlik of Anadolu . |
| 10 | For a brief period in the province 's history , its affairs became entwined in the broader struggles for the monarchy . |
| 11 | The excavations , a joint venture between British and Italian authorities ( Provincia d'Isernia ) and directed for the last twelve years by the School 's director , Dr Richard Hodges , have shown that for a brief period in the early ninth century San Vincenzo was an exceptional place with far-flung connections . |
| 12 | For a brief period in the Spring of 1987 , London was the only English metropolitan centre with more than one evening daily paper — it had three — having endured five years when only one , the Standard , was published . |
| 13 | He has been Professor of Architecture at the University of Belgrade , and was also for a brief period in the early 1980s the Mayor of the city . |
| 14 | This is apparent in the emergence of the physical disk of the sun as Aten , first named as such in the Middle Kingdom , to the status of a great god for a brief period in the Eighteenth Dynasty . |
| 15 | During a tricky period in the late '70s , Manager Bernie Rhodes tried to replace Mick Jones with Steve Jones from The Sex Pistols . |
| 16 | The salvation history of the Bible is coupled with what is seen as a significant period in the history of the protestants of Ireland . |
| 17 | Chairman Alan Potts explained : ‘ The Club went through a bad period in the eighties but happily we resolved the problems . ’ |
| 18 | Quite apart from the impending expansion and modernisation of our fleet , we had been going through a difficult period in the prevailing political climate at HQ . |
| 19 | Traded options can be used to secure a predetermined price for a security within a given period in the anticipation of a certain cash inflow . |
| 20 | But , apart from a 10-minute period in the second half during which Dinamo appeared to toy with the Blues , Linfield did not let their heads drop . |
| 21 | The other major case , which later separated into two , involved the murders of two boys aged 14 and 6 , which obtained fairly intensive coverage over a five-day period in the popular dailies . |
| 22 | In the decade 's final timetable , there is an express every 15 minutes ( plus one extra ) between Swindon and Paddington over a two-and-a-half-hour period in the morning rush . |