Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd v Chalwyn Ltd [ 1967 ] RPC 339 a restrictive covenant prevented the employee for a period of two years after the end of his employment from being associated with any company in the UK concerned with manufacture of " printed electrical circuits " . |
| 2 | Lloyd 's argues that many members who are leaving are those with limited resources who joined the market during a period of rapid expansion in the 1970s . |
| 3 | Every Buddhist boy became a monk for a period , it might be for a lent , or a year or two , it might continue for a lifetime or be as short as a week . |
| 4 | Not one delivery — ’ he held up one finger — ‘ was more than six minutes later than we estimated , taking account of the traffic , and we checked every delivery over a period of two weeks . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The FA has therefore fined Mr Jones £20,000 and imposed a suspension for a period of six months , suspended for three years . |
| 6 | The 1560s marked the beginning of a period of economic dislocation and social upheaval which stunted the development of Muscovy 's fragile ‘ proto-bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 7 | Thus when the General Strike came in 1926 it marked the end of a period of working-class militancy and collective resistance to industrial decay and stagnation . |
| 8 | The European Convention is different in kind , and the British signatories of it , worthy predecessors to the signatories of the Treaty of Brussels in 1972 , put an end to a period of more than four centuries during which no causes have been carried out of this realm . |
| 9 | Manual workers made up a large proportion of the TUC membership , and the health of many of these was depicted as having been destroyed by their employment ; and , moreover , it was held that all workers had a right to a period of leisure in later life supported by-a full subsistence pension . |