Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically , individual therapy involves 12–20 sessions of 45–60 minutes over a three-month period . |
| 2 | The rescheduling would take place over 10 years with a six-year period of grace to allow the renegotiation of debt for the preceding period . |
| 3 | In May , 30 people were killed in three smashes within a two-week period . |
| 4 | Having said that , the landlord may accept that there is more certainty in serving a s 146 notice with a short period of notice , leading to re-entry , rather than to run the risk that the tenant may subsequently utilise the Common Law Procedure Act 1852 which permits the tenant to apply for relief for up to six months after judgment in respect of forfeiture for arrears of rent . |
| 5 | Prosecutor Nigel Godsmark said he preyed on 270 women over a three-year period . |
| 6 | The District Court jury deliberated for almost 25 hours over a six-day period before arriving at its unanimous decision on charges involving conspiracy , lying to Congress and obstructing congressional inquiries . |
| 7 | Instead he became an alcoholic ( a ‘ half-alcoholic ’ he preferred to call it ) who required to dry-out in hospital about 50 times over a 25-year period . |
| 8 | The stimulating article Some library costs and options by Brown ( an economist ) concludes ‘ it seems to be worth acquiring and providing storage for , books likely to be wanted more often than , once in about 1.7 years over a long period ’ . |
| 9 | The proposed solution , announced in March 1984 , involved halving the 57,000 workforce over a five-year period ( with a 6,000 cut in 1984 ) , the maintaining by the government of the FFr 6.5 billion subsidy for five years and the agreement of E de F to increase coal purchases and employ 1,000 C de F employees per year . |
| 10 | The solidarity of the community is strengthened … by a shared history of living and working in one place over a long period of time … . |
| 11 | On Oct. 25 , 1989 , Japan had agreed to reschedule over $396,000,000 with Poland paying principal and interest in five years after a five-year period of grace . |
| 12 | We want to settle in one school for a good period of time , because we have discovered how important are relationships , with both colleagues and classes , that have been built up and stood the test of time . |
| 13 | Thus it has been held that there was a course of dealing where the parties contracted three or four times per month for three years ( Kendall v Lillico ) and where there had been 81 transactions over a period of six years ( SIAT di del Ferro v Tradax Overseas SA [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 470 ) , but not where there had been only three or four contracts over a five-year period ( Hollier v Rambler Motors ( AMC ) Ltd [ 1972 ] 2 QB 71 ; in addition the alleged course of dealing was not consistent ) . |
| 14 | The Commission approved on Dec. 17 , 1989 , for the third framework programme , its key technology research and development initiative , a budget of 5,700 million ECU over a five-year period of which one-third was to be for research into information technology . |
| 15 | Preparatory ground for the visit which marked the steady improvement in links between the two countries after a 15-month period of strained relations [ see pp. 37009 ; 37357 ; 37531 ] , had been laid in October after a high-level Indo-Nepalese task force , meeting in Katmandu , reached " complete " agrement on the details of a trade and transit treaty . |
| 16 | By comparison , a sheepdog has been recorded barking for seven hours non-stop and a cocker spaniel is capable of cramming over 900 yelps into a ten-minute period . |
| 17 | The Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales lost 8,195 hectares of moorland ( to agriculture and forestry ) between 1885 and 1975 , and the northern half of the Snowdonia National Park lost 5,201 hectares over a similar period , though the majority of it was to forestry . |
| 18 | But it was in New Orleans , when the alcoholic fog lifted for a while , that he wrote eleven hundred pages in a four-month period ending in early 1987 . |
| 19 | A 35-year-old man pleaded guilty to the brutal rape of six women and the indecent assault of another four women in a sixteen-month period . |
| 20 | In a prospective study of general practice prescribing involving more than 40 000 people over a 2-year period , Skegg et al. ( 1983 ) found that only three in a thousand of those who had received psychotropics went on to take an overdose of the drugs within the following 12 months . |
| 21 | ‘ The job required 51,000 man-hours over a 28-week period , ’ he said . |