Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 45133 and 50015 will then move on for a short period to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway before returning to Butterley . |
| 2 | The tax will be phased in over a three-year period from July 1994 . |
| 3 | Bush did not indicate how the changes , which were to be phased in over a five-year period at a cost of up to $100,000 million , would be financed . |
| 4 | This level of pay was never conceived of as being a realizable objective for a statutory minimum wage that would be brought in over a short period of time . |
| 5 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |
| 6 | With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence . |
| 7 | In supporting the Bill at its Second Reading in the House of Commons , the Minister of State at the Home Office , Mr Alexander Lyon , explained the Bill 's overall purpose thus : ‘ If a man has committed an indiscretion that brings him before the courts and results in his being convicted and penalised , it must be right that after he has served the penalty and lived it down by a substantial period of good conduct thereafter , it should be without meaning for most people of good will . ’ |
| 8 | Reed has signed up for a further period of seven years to publish the back list of John Steinbeck , after submitting a lavish brochure of marketing plans to the estate . |
| 9 | Every loan should be followed up after a certain period of time . |
| 10 | The argument that this is money well spent only bears out if you then follow up with a reasonable period of reliable service . |
| 11 | By s. 10 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 the court has the power to make a disqualification order against the person concerned , up to a maximum period of 15 years . |
| 12 | However , this outlay can easily be offset by letting the apartment out for a brief period during the peak season . |
| 13 | The examination committee records in London show that the majority of students were examined after nine or 18 months ' instruction , and even then they stood a chance of being referred back for a further period of study . |
| 14 | The duty , which was to have been phased out over a nine-month period to March 1991 , was dismissed as ineffective because shoppers would be able to circumvent it by buying in the West after July 1 . |
| 15 | The counterfeit cheques , for sums between £20 and £60 , were made out over a five-month period from March last year . |
| 16 | In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time . |