Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 2 | The last US military personnel based in the Philippines were withdrawn on Nov. 24 , thereby ending a presence which had existed since 1898 ( broken only by a three-year period of Japanese occupation during the Pacific War ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The era of class confrontation in Britain 's coalfields had been confined mainly to the short period 1910–26 . |
| 5 | Interestingly , the use of key rings is confined solely to the Roman period . |
| 6 | But this will only occur if the style of running the business , the skills applied to the business and above all the cost base of the business , have been attacked ruthlessly in the interim period . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For the concession of hereditary tenure , though made piecemeal over a long period of time , was universal by the end of the century . |
| 9 | If on the other hand , a stress is applied slowly over a longer period the material flows like a viscous liquid so that the spherical shape is soon lost if left to stand for some time . |
| 10 | Broadly speaking , the official statistics indicate that there is an increasing rate of crime , and that the increase has accelerated rapidly in the post-war period , especially since the mid-1950s . |
| 11 | Why has service employment risen rapidly in the post-war period ? |
| 12 | Having risen strongly over the post-war period until that year , growth stopped ; there have been major fluctuations since , but the total has never been so high again . |
| 13 | Chiddingfold pushed hard in the second period of extra time , and Peter Liles saved 'Mill with a super save off his elbow , flicking a goalbound shot just over the bar . |
| 14 | Duncan Smith , defending , said : ‘ It appeared to be a fairly well laid out scheme which was used successfully over a considerable period of time . |
| 15 | New towns continued to be founded right through the medieval period though after the early thirteenth century the changing economic conditions were no longer ideal for their development and the process tailed oft Queenborough , Kent ( 1368 ) is said to be the latest medieval planned town , though Bewdley , Worcestershire ( soon after 1477 ) , is probably the last one . |
| 16 | According to Earth Report ( 1988 ) , some 100 million t of nutrient-rich silt were deposited annually in the pre-Aswan period but is now reduced to just a few tomes per year , necessitating extensive fertiliser use at considerable cost and , presumably , inviting long-term eutrophication problems that characterise many developing countries ( section 6.3.1 ) . |
| 17 | Japan 's payment of tribute had lapsed long before the modern period , and such payments had ceased to be the normal basis for trading contacts , but the tribute system and the superior — inferior relationship upon which it was premised remained the basic concept behind the conduct of formal relations between countries . |
| 18 | The UK had maintained that rates should be left for the market to decide , and had demanded the indefinite maintenance of discretionary zero rating for sensitive items ( the Commission 's position being that zero rating would be tolerated only for a limited period ) . |
| 19 | It will be based there for an experimental period of a year to evaluate suitability of the bay behind the power station as a permanent mooring for the lifeboat . |
| 20 | This peak was not reached again for a long period , but by 1989 it had reached 76.4 per cent ( Employment Gazette , November 1989 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Relatively detailed Marxist accounts of state institutions operate have emerged only in the post-war period , and are associated chiefly with the growth of Western neo-Marxisms — new forms of expressing Marx and Engels ' ideas , distinguished chiefly by their willingness to engage ‘ bourgeois ’ social science directly in debate . |
| 23 | In England and Wales , as elsewhere in Western Europe , that number has increased dramatically in the post-war period . |
| 24 | Both grass and clovers recover and grow more quickly when grazed hard for a short period and then rested for two to three weeks than they do under continuous nibbling . |
| 25 | Even if they were first established in prehistoric times , knowledge use and even construction of leys may have continued well into the medieval period , perhaps as the secret inheritance of certain esoteric orders . |
| 26 | ‘ But poisons that would only kill if taken regularly over a long period of time , do they exist ? ’ |
| 27 | The SDRs were issued initially over the three-year period 1970 ; 72 , when SDR9 billion were issued ; a further SDR 12 billion were issued between 1979 and 1981 ( valued in pound sterling at roughly £15 billion ) . |
| 28 | In both Britain and the United States late age mortality rates have decreased markedly in the post-war period ( see below ) . |
| 29 | There are , however , instances where fixed term contracts are renewed automatically over a considerable period of time and can reasonably be described as ‘ rolling ’ contracts . |
| 30 | 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 . |