Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a period [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a company 's budget will normally detail a sales budget for a period whilst the published accounts will show sales for the year . |
| 2 | This intermediate stage consists of what appears to be a free-running rhythm with a period that differs from 24 hours . |
| 3 | There are , however , some patients who , though not in an acutely disturbed state , will need extra security for a period because they have been a risk to the public at some time in the recent past or are considered to require special containment while assessment continues in conditions of moderate security . |
| 4 | In the early 1970s — as we saw — Korn/Ferry had a market quotation for a period but the partners soon bought all their shares back . |
| 5 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the policy of the Inland Revenue in respect of charging penalty tax for a period before retroactive primary legislation is passed . |
| 6 | These are based largely on existing historical studies and usually offer a good overview of a period or topic . |
| 7 | Some settlement is likely to take place over a period after the trench has been filled , but this can be filled in at a later stage . |
| 8 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 9 | ‘ Black 5 ’ on loan for a period once our line is operational ! |
| 10 | Chairman can I er suggest to these results of course over a period and I 'd like to see |
| 11 | To move from ‘ art ’ to ‘ craft ’ is rather plainly a further contraction , or diminution : and it will be radically misunderstood unless we remember that for Pound the level of craftsmanship ( not just in letters , but in supposedly humbler trades also ) is a register , a thermometer-reading , of the good or ill health of a period or of a society . |
| 12 | About 700m ecus are still waiting to be collected , partly because spending tends to bunch at the end of a period and partly because Britain 's system of local-authority finance means that some councils can not use the money . |
| 13 | The latter are sometimes forgotten and left in the vagina at the end of a period and may be responsible for a persistent , foul , vaginal discharge , which is , however , easy to treat . |
| 14 | Indeed at secondary level the timetable of the week seems to blind one to considerations of the length of a course : the number of periods in a week or six days is debated , rather than the length of a period or the number of hours in a course . |
| 15 | So deep was the division on the " entrist tactic " that the unified body reached the compromise of working within the Labour Party for a period and then withdrawing for a time and continuing independent activity . |