Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [adv] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all Heyford 's jets and crew now home , the families are looking forward to a period of tranquility , |
| 2 | Strong and sometimes quite intense relationships with individuals are built up over a period of even a few weeks . |
| 3 | Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes . |
| 4 | Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back . |
| 5 | These Accounts are drawn up for a period of 52 weeks ended on 27th March 1993 and the comparative figures stated are in respect of a period of 52 weeks ended on 28th March 1992 . |
| 6 | I understand that all the counterfoils and voting slips cast are kept securely for a period after an election until they are eventually destroyed . |