Example sentences of "a brief period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reduction of waiting lists is not necessarily an indicator of improved ‘ quality ’ of care for elderly people , whose needs may go beyond a brief period of surgery and recovery . |
| 2 | Even now , and though the events of June triggered a brief period of reappraisal , the British still seem besotted by their vision of China as a billion-strong market for their goods and services — and either unaware , or unimpressed , that their exports to Hong Kong itself are currently worth three times as much as those to its northern neighbour . |
| 3 | Certainly , after a brief period of novelty , the hapless , aggrieved house-husband threatens to become as rigid and unexamined a comic invention as the grotesquely intrusive mother-in-law once was . |
| 4 | These books are both related to the exhibition On The Passage of a Few People Through a Brief Period of Time presented at the Musée national d'art moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou , the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London , and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston , Massachusetts during 1989 — 90 . |
| 5 | After a brief period of uncertainty , it is now clear that common-law recklessness , not Caldwell recklessness , is the relevant test . |
| 6 | In 1922 , following a brief period of Home Rule Party — Sinn Féin rule , the abolition of proportional representation in Northern Ireland in local government elections and a readjustment of the ward boundaries enabled the Unionists to regain control of the corporation . |
| 7 | This school had enjoyed a brief period of success and national distinction in the first decade of the sixteenth century under the Mastership of John Stanbridge , who was well known when he migrated north from Oxford and whose Grammar was prescribed in the statutes of Manchester Grammar School . |
| 8 | In serious cases , consideration should be given to a brief period of suspension while the case is investigated and this suspension should be with pay . |
| 9 | A brief period of problem-orientated counselling will often help clarify whether such a referral is appropriate . |
| 10 | In contrast with the previous case , where it was thought necessary to stop medication at the beginning of treatment , this woman clearly benefited from the introduction of a hypnotic for a brief period of time . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , there is sometimes resistance among staff on inpatient units to admitting patients who may not be suffering from psychiatric illness , but who for a brief period of time need to hand over responsibility for their well-being to the inpatient clinical team . |
| 12 | It is possible that the baby will remain well , and not respond to any of the foods — a brief period of avoidance can sometimes clear up the sensitivity . |
| 13 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 14 | ( Duncan Cubitt ) Above : Warbird reflections as the fighter Collection 's Hellcat , a pair of Beech 18s and the Dutch B–25 Mitchell enjoy a brief period of sunshine during Sunday 's display . |
| 15 | Silverpoint enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the 1890s when silverpoint kits , including specially prepared papers , were made commercially available by Winsor & Newton . |
| 16 | Japan experienced a brief period of European contact in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , but in 1639 the government of Japan , the Tokugawa ( Edo ) Bakufu , effectively severed all contact with the West . |
| 17 | Paul Willis , in his book Learning to Labour ( 1977 ) , noted a brief period of exhilarating freedom in the lives of working-class lads . |
| 18 | An agreed formula provided for a brief period of UN control before Indonesia moved in , early in 1963 . |
| 19 | Trade unions , on the other hand , after enjoying a brief period of vigorous growth in the immediate aftermath of their legalization in 1906 , were subjected to a variety of restrictions and reduced to a skeletal and precarious existence . |
| 20 | But following a brief period of panic sales in the immediate aftermath of the turmoil of 1905 , noble land sales slowed down markedly . |
| 21 | After a brief period of independence in the second half of the eleventh century — an independence recognised by Pope Gregory VII in 1077 — Zeta was eclipsed by a new Serbian principality , known as Raška , situated in the wild mountainous districts of southern Serbia , which later became known as the Sandžak of Novi Pazar . |
| 22 | In a brief period of energetic expansion , Samuilo enlarged his empire , from its centre in the Prespa/Ohrid area , so that by the end of the century it extended from the Black Sea to the Adriatic and into Greece , even as far as the Peleponnesus , although the Aegean port of Salonika successfully resisted his attempts to occupy it . |
| 23 | Despite a programme of Russification ( including a ban on the use of Ukrainian in schools and publications ) , a strongly nationalist movement emerged in the late nineteenth century which led to pressure for greater autonomy and a brief period of independence immediately after the October revolution . |
| 24 | After a brief period of independence , Soviet rule was established in 1919 and the larger part of historic Belorussia joined the USSR in 1922 . |
| 25 | Varieties can develop behavioural ‘ isolating mechanisms ’ , such as differences in courtship , which prevent interbreeding even when it is genetically possible — but a brief period of physical isolation is needed to allow the populations to develop the differences that will prevent them blending back together again if they come into contact . |
| 26 | Slumptown is a community which experienced a brief period of industrial expansion before a rapid economic decline . |
| 27 | A brief period of training using the manual provided with the program is all that is required for a manager to start developing his own models . |
| 28 | Juan José Arévalo Bermejo , who as President in 1945-1951 initiated a brief period of democracy and social reform , died in October aged 86 . |
| 29 | He was a guy who could be something for a brief period of time and then he vanished like the spirit he was impersonating . |
| 30 | He went through a brief period of chatting to the customers down at the bank about how he had seen someone come back from the dead . |