Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] a period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patient E16 experienced grief and a period of self-neglect after the death of E22 and became profoundly unwell . |
| 2 | If the education and training differs substantially from that required by the same profession in the ‘ host ’ member state , an aptitude test or a period of supervised practice may be necessary . |
| 3 | The Ultramar acquisition , a stronger US dollar and a period of heavy development expenditure , led to our gearing increasing substantially . |
| 4 | Two-year full-time course open to holders of a three-year degree in architecture with a good portfolio and a period of practical training . |
| 5 | " Day " can mean either a calendar day or a period of 24 hours , according to context , and the meaning of " working day " will depend on the custom of the particular trade — and may vary from place to place and from time to time . |
| 6 | It may be that with adequate supervision and a period of reorientation it will not take very long to prepare yourself for a new role , but do take care to acknowledge your limitations , and to make known to your manager how these are likely to affect the care you give . |
| 7 | But with the defeat of chartism and a period of stabilisation during which skilled labour consolidated its privileged economic position , the ideology of skilled workers unified increasingly around a discourse of possessive individualism , self help and respectability inscribed within extant relations of production . |
| 8 | Relaxations returned after withdrawal of oxyharmoglobin and a period of recovery ( fig 6 ) . |
| 9 | The implication that a period of twenty or " so years separates the Woodchester and Withington pavements ( Smith 1969 , 100 ) seems reasonable . |
| 10 | A further example of an indirect restraint is found in the case of Mineral Water Bottle Exchange and Trade Protection Society v Booth ( 1887 ) 36 Ch D 465 where a trade association had a rule that no member should employ an employee who had left the service of another member without the consent in writing of his late employer until a period of two years had elapsed from the time of the end of his employment . |
| 11 | A failure to adapt to this situation will result in more newly qualified staff leaving for other types of work or training when a period of work experience would have been valuable . |
| 12 | Hence , it is usual to calculate the q's for the current year or a period of years and apply these to what becomes a hypothetical cohort ‘ followed ’ through a current or period life table . |
| 13 | There is a long-term plan to upgrade the works , which provides only primary treatment and a period of settlement before discharging effluent into the Dee through a short pipe . |
| 14 | Eorpwald , king of the eastern Angles , was slain by a pagan , Ricberht , soon after his conversion and a period of three years elapsed before Eorpwald 's half-brother , Sigeberht , who had been baptized during his exile in Gaul , became king and Felix , a Burgundian , was appointed bishop of the eastern Angles by Honorius , archbishop of Canterbury . |