Example sentences of "a brief period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Once the eggs have hatched the tiny fry are without parental care and become free swimming for a brief period during which time they must find their own host anemone .
2 A period of teacher training followed , after which Blamey returned to teach at the Regent Street Polytechnic where he remained , apart from a brief period during the war , until it combined with the Chelsea Polytechnic .
3 However , this outlay can easily be offset by letting the apartment out for a brief period during the peak season .
4 St Giles 's cathedral nearby is more properly known as the High Kirk , having been formally designated a cathedral for only a brief period during the reign of Charles I. It was here that Charles attempted to impose a High Anglican liturgy , virtually a Mass , upon a Presbyterian society which responded with brawls in the church and outside , still remembered as the Jenny Geddes Riots after a vegetable seller from the market who was reported to have thrown her stool at the Dean 's head .
5 Apart from a brief period during the First World War , when the Royal Flying Corps had use of the area inside the circuit , Brooklands was used continuously from 1907 to the outbreak of the Second World War .
6 After a brief period during which a registered trade union was a corporate body under the Act of 1971 , the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 restored the immunity , though liability was imposed ( where there was no trade dispute ) for certain torts causing personal injury or breaches of duty connected with the union 's property .
7 He retired from medicine in 1930 , although for a brief period during World War II he acted as locum for a Cambridge doctor who had joined up .
8 Following a brief period as a federation Indonesia in 1950 became a unitary state in which executive power resides in a President ( a position held since 1968 by Gen. ( retd ) Suharto ) who governs with the assistance of an appointed Cabinet .
9 Oddsson , 43 , had been elected as IP chair on March 10 , 1991 , after a brief period as deputy leader .
10 It seems , therefore , that the Burgundians should be seen as a largely catholic people , but that for a brief period under Gundobad they had an arian Church .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 After a brief period of uncertainty , it is now clear that common-law recklessness , not Caldwell recklessness , is the relevant test .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 A brief period of problem-orientated counselling will often help clarify whether such a referral is appropriate .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 ( 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 .
25 Silverpoint enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the 1890s when silverpoint kits , including specially prepared papers , were made commercially available by Winsor & Newton .
26 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 .
27 Paul Willis , in his book Learning to Labour ( 1977 ) , noted a brief period of exhilarating freedom in the lives of working-class lads .
28 An agreed formula provided for a brief period of UN control before Indonesia moved in , early in 1963 .
29 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 .
30 But following a brief period of panic sales in the immediate aftermath of the turmoil of 1905 , noble land sales slowed down markedly .
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