Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 2 | In addition , the copyright monopoly is only given for a certain period of time ( eg in the UK , 50 years from the end of the year in which the author dies ) , but databases are usually continuously updated with new information , therefore does the protection period keep changing ? |
| 3 | Therefore , in the subsequent 56 patients adjuvant therapy with chenodeoxycholic acid 7 mg/kg/day and ursodeoxycholic acid 5 mg/kg/ day was given for an arbitrary period of three months after the procedure . |
| 4 | These data are given for the post-war period in Figure 2.1 . |
| 5 | Patients who presented as emergencies were excluded , as were patients treated during the same period of time with cancers arising in a background of familial Polyposis coli or long standing ulcerative colitis . |
| 6 | The mill-pond was drained for a three-year period in order to allow some necessary excavation . |
| 7 | Barthes has differentiated between a postwar period during which the cultural influence of the French writer/intellectual has gradually diminished , and an interwar period during which " great writers … such as Gide , Claudel , Valery , Malraux … were at the centre of intense activity , exerting enormous cultural influence " . " |
| 8 | Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change . |
| 9 | This new hobby developed during an interesting period for the British press . |
| 10 | The statutory power to recommend a minimum period might , in practice , have been used to create a tariff among the judges for all murders , so that the recommended minimum came to be regarded as the appropriate period of detention , subject only to the question whether the prisoner was a danger to the public when it expired . |
| 11 | All sorts of schemes were thought up to keep people busy and occupied during the trying period of ‘ waiting to be demobbed . ’ |
| 12 | The company of some elderly relatives can only be enjoyed for a limited period at the end of a busy day , and long evenings — every evening — spent together can be a strain on all concerned in different ways . |
| 13 | Yet it is known that between one third and one half of mentally handicapped people currently resident in mental handicap hospitals should not be in hospital and could be either immediately discharged or discharged after a short period of training . |
| 14 | Postwar holiday consumption patterns in Britain indicate the rapid growth of package holidays in the 1950s , but the roots of this boom are located in an earlier period before the Second World War . |
| 15 | While the Jakarta meeting was taking place the SOC Foreign Minister , Hor Nam Hong , sent a memorandum to the co-chairs of the PICC insisting that the powers of the UNTAC should be " very clearly defined " and that the two rival Cambodian governments should not be dissolved in the transitional period before elections . |
| 16 | Unlike a probation order , which was not regarded as a sentence of the Court , a suspended sentence ranked not merely as a sentence , but as a sentence of imprisonment , with a condition attached which activated the element of custodial confinement only if another offence was committed within a stated period of not less than one year nor more than two ( originally three ) years . |
| 17 | For a start , it allows spreading to be carried over a longer period during the winter months ( Table 1 ) . |
| 18 | In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops . |
| 19 | It is widely accepted that the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century was preceded by a long period of gradual economic growth , but when the upturn began remains uncertain . |
| 20 | Admittedly the current burst of improvement dates back only to the Renaissance , which was preceded by a dismal period of stagnation , in which European scientific culture was frozen at the level achieved by the Greeks . |
| 21 | It assumed that models of rehabilitation valuing people through work , which had been established at such hospitals at Netherne , could be applied for an indefinite period with all patients being potential benefactors . |
| 22 | Investment in the monitoring and evaluation of social policy changes made during the post-war period in the UK has been very limited , relative to the vast costs of actually making the changes . |
| 23 | An undertaking not to compete with the business transferred for a specific period within a specific geographical area will commonly be given by the vendor to the purchaser ( see Clause 15 of the Standard Sale Agreement — Appendix III ) . |
| 24 | Fifteen years ago they began to offer market-related interest rates on wholesale deposits , deposits in excess of a large minimum , made for a fixed period of time . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) It is generally acceptable to state that an offer will not be made for a particular period of time . |
| 26 | CND had planned a number of marches in London for that summer but they were affected by a ban on all public processions ( other than those traditionally held ) in the Metropolitan Police District which was imposed for a twenty-eight-day period by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner , with the consent of the Home Secretary , under section 3 of the Public Order Act 1936 . |
| 27 | In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest . |
| 28 | This appears to be subject to an exception where the licence was granted for a limited period of time and for a specific purpose . |
| 29 | This concession will be granted for an initial period of five years with possible extension after that . |
| 30 | The salvation history of the Bible is coupled with what is seen as a significant period in the history of the protestants of Ireland . |