Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] period from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contract , which runs for a five-year period from 1 November 1992 , covers the provision of maintenance personnel for the production facilities on Amoco 's NW Hutton , Montrose Alpha , Arbroath , Everest and Lomond platforms . |
| 2 | Under Resolution 44/312 of Nov. 20 , the Assembly elected former Norwegian Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for a four-year period from Jan. 1 , 1990 . |
| 3 | The council of the 41-member International Cocoa Organization ( ICCO ) on March 30 voted almost unanimously to extend the 1986 International Cocoa Agreement between producers and consumers [ see p. 35294 ] for a two-year period from Oct. 1 , but without its provisions to regulate world supplies and prices , which had been suspended since 1988 . |
| 4 | To recommend to the council which sanction or sanctions is or are appropriate , for example , termination of membership ( expulsion ) ; suspension of membership for a defined period ; downgrading from fellow to members ; suspension for a specified period from office holding at branch and national level ; reprimand ( by way of rebuke ) ; caution ( by way of warning ) . |
| 5 | For a short period from 1952 to 1954 he was Professor of Conducting at the Warsaw Conservatoire . |
| 6 | Thus a feasible injection schedule for animals held in a room with a light period from 0800 h to 2000 h would be PMSG between 1500 and 1600 h and hCG 46 h later between 1300 and 1400 h . |
| 7 | Mr Jack Adams , chairman of the union side , said that action would have to take place within a 28-day period from yesterday 's anouncement or it would be ruled out of order . |
| 8 | However , a Contracting State is entitled to declare that an application must be filed within a stated period from the date of entry of the judgment , a period which must not be less than one year . |
| 9 | The charge was to be levied ‘ for failure to complete development within a specified period from the grant of planning permission ’ . |
| 10 | Material provisions whose adequacy can not be assessed objectively on the basis of actual experience either in the run up to completion or within a short period from completion ( so that it may not be reasonable to expect to obtain a retention from the vendors ) ; for example , pension provisions and reserves for goods supplied in previous years . |
| 11 | In a two-year period from 1979 the ‘ Teaching of study skills project ’ investigated the teaching of study skills amongst 16–19 year olds . |
| 12 | The tax will be phased in over a three-year period from July 1994 . |
| 13 | Failure to extend the agreement would have meant selling the buffer stock over a 4@1/2-year period from October , with potentially damaging consequences for prices , which were already at their lowest point for many years after five seasons of glut . |
| 14 | It is understood the airline could face fines and costs totalling more than £300,000 in connection with the case which relates to events over a six-year period from 1981 . |
| 15 | Wright and West , in a study of all incidents recorded by the police as genuine rapes or attempted rapes in six English counties over a five-year period from 1972 to 1976 , found that of a total of 297 cases , fellatio was attempted or demanded in 30 incidents , cunnilingus in 13 , buggery in 12 and other sexual acts usually involving masturbation in 35 . |
| 16 | The counterfeit cheques , for sums between £20 and £60 , were made out over a five-month period from March last year . |