Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a group wittingly shares an attitude over a relevant issue but does so only for a limited period of time before falling into disarray , it would be difficult to refer to the group as an elite in any meaningful sense since the outcomes would be insignificant . |
| 2 | The battle of the Catalaunian Plains was proof that the imperial policy could work , if only for a limited period of time . |
| 3 | Whether or not these jobs were available only for a short period of time , they were regarded by their holders as temporary . |
| 4 | But they do , they get paid a lot of money but only for a short period of time . |
| 5 | It seems that Gainsborough produced such works as favours for important clients , but only for a short period in his career , later preferring oil on paper for smaller portraits of this sort . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Within organizations productivity slowed down , on this view , because Taylorism had reached its limits — there were no new areas left to rationalize ; workers had become more resistant , especially during the prolonged period of post-war full employment , and efficiency gains were being outstripped by increasing costs of surveillance and control associated with the rigid separation of mental and managerial labour . |
| 8 | Count Mandred , the acclaimed defeater of the Skaven , was elected Emperor and his respected generalship and charismatic personality held the Empire together during a vulnerable period of recovery . |
| 9 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 10 | All ten residents had been long-term patients in a large psychiatric hospital , were severely disabled and had been discharged only after a lengthy period of active rehabilitation . |
| 11 | Only after a considerable period of experience do infants give clear signs that they are aware of the extent of their own bodies and the division between themselves and the wider world . |
| 12 | The reference to ‘ Eventually ’ in the last sentence implies that it was only after a commendable period of restraint that horses were ordered in . |
| 13 | If the management 's lawyers are not successful in removing a provision of this kind , then its effect can be mitigated by amendment so that it will apply only after an agreed period of time , for example five years , or with the consent of an agreed percentage of the members ; the latter may be appropriate where the investment has been syndicated . |
| 14 | This would consist of day release throughout one academic year together with a four-week period of block release and should become a requirement before 1981 , if possible . |
| 15 | Heavy corporate borrowing in the 1980s ( encouraged by government deregulation ) together with a sustained period of high interest rates and , from 1990 , with a contracting economy , proved a fatal combination for many companies . |
| 16 | It was the English who failed to do so within the agreed period of two months . |
| 17 | We might go on to say that not only in the medieval period with its plainsong , but also today , the Church owes more to the prayer and music of the religious orders than it will ever appreciate . |
| 18 | Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time . |
| 19 | The last US military personnel based in the Philippines were withdrawn on Nov. 24 , thereby ending a presence which had existed since 1898 ( broken only by a three-year period of Japanese occupation during the Pacific War ) . |
| 20 | total sponsorships of a vehicle ( normally for an initial period of 3 years ) |
| 21 | The Fitzwilliam Quartet recorded their cycle originally in the mid-1970s , shortly after a concentrated period of study with the composer . |
| 22 | It is known that Dionysos was worshipped at Pylos shortly after the Minoan period on Crete and it is possible that his orgiastic cult was preceded by a Minoan proto-Dionysian cult . |
| 23 | If all the etch-resist is completely stripped away in a short period of time , then perhaps the whole board has been exposed at some stage to too much UV light . |
| 24 | The absence of evidence of a distinctive layout of fields before that time has led to the suggestion that Romano-British fields continued to be used in the Saxon period and that open fields may have been something that developed gradually through the Anglo-Saxon period as a whole ( Taylor and Fowler 1978 ) . |
| 25 | Three , you could arrange payment of the deposit as requested , possibly for a certain period of time and possibly for a smaller amount than demanded , this would no doubt by in the process of the licence . |
| 26 | He had sought and received asylum in the Senegalese embassy in Conakry only a month after his return home from a long period of exile [ see p. 38181 ] . |
| 27 | But they trailed 58-53 early in the second period after Giants ' Kevin St Kitts and Jerry Johnson spearheaded a 14-0 spurt . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | British immigration officials have extended Natasha 's visa until February 1993 and have said that it will be renewed automatically for a certain period of time after that . |
| 30 | Similarly in the pre-1914 period in Germany the authority of employers ' organisations over their members helped the attainment of an earlier recognition of collective bargaining ( outside manufacturing industry ) , 6 in contrast to its much later acceptance in France . |