Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seasons , if they are important enough , can grab people 's attention in the way that you would n't if the programmes just went out over a period of 16 or 20 weeks . |
| 2 | The calling of the elections also followed immediately on a period of disarray within the Liberal-National Party opposition coalition , which included an embarrassing climb-down over its alternative health policy in February because of financial miscalculations . |
| 3 | They may also trade commercially for a period not exceeding 13 weeks , during the course of their ACE employment . |
| 4 | The pulsar is also spinning rapidly with a period between I ms and a few seconds , but its magnetic dipole axis is not aligned with the spin axis . |
| 5 | Bargaining is often carried out over a period of days , so it 's fortunate that a four- night B&B break at a three-star hotel near the market , is £219 in February and March . |
| 6 | The work made in response to this moment often gains immensely from a period of marination in further reading and research . |
| 7 | In the past , samples of children 's language have been collected using a diary approach where examples of children 's utterances , together with a description of the surrounding context , were simply written down over a period of weeks or months ( Miller 1981a ) . |