Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case has brought to light a ‘ letter of instruction ’ signed by Wallis two weeks before his death in 1986 asking the trustees of his foundation to exhibit the paintings on loan at the Los Angeles County Museum , ‘ whether for a definite or indefinite period of time ’ . |
| 2 | A council covers an area with a population ranging from 200 to 600 people and is elected for a six-month or one-year period of office . |
| 3 | The late 1950s to the 1970s saw a very interesting and rewarding period of development in the carriage of beer and is amply recorded in the book , covering not only the Whitbread vehicles , but also many examples of vehicles operated by other companies within the Group . |
| 4 | As made clear in s. 205(1) ( xxvii ) ( above ) this means that a valid legal lease must be for a fixed and certain period of time . |
| 5 | In spite of inflation , Americans were enjoying the beginnings of a very real and lasting period of prosperity . |
| 6 | They have had to learn to live with one another , to adjust , to get used to each other 's habits , hobbies , friends and relations — the most crucial and critical period for every newly married couple — but they have had to do it all under the full glare of the media . |
| 7 | Sibton was built in 1827 atthe tail end of this pure and severe period of architecture of which William Wilkins , who built Grange Park , and the Northumbrian architect John Dobson were past masters . |
| 8 | The seven years of his second marriage were a stable and satisfying period for Howard and the time when he largely established himself as a country gentleman . |
| 9 | They may of course enable people to live in the community longer before a prolonged and expensive period of institutionalized decline until death ; or they may fail to bring about any significant changes . |
| 10 | A philadelphia intellectual , Benjamin Franklin , back in his native land after a prolonged and enjoyable period in England , put down a statement of the need for political union which the conference accepted , but the colonial assemblies then rejected this plan for common defence , probably because it would have involved a good deal of extra spending . |
| 11 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the problem faced by the United Nations in recent decades has been entanglement in east-west confrontation and that at this stage of its development it does not need to embark on an extremely controversial and difficult period of structural reform but should make greater use not only of the United Nations charter but of the existing United Nations machinery ? |
| 12 | I know how context influences the effects of alcohol and realise this was a highly artificial situation , but it was still difficult to ignore the terrible predictability of the road to drunkenness : its fixed stages — a brief and seductive period of social effervescence and then the rapid departure of self-consciousness and the ugly appearance of righteousness . |
| 13 | In 1941 , after a brief and inauspicious period of Vichy French rule , Lebanon was again occupied by Allied armies ; it was the second time in 24 years that British troops had crossed the southern frontier from Palestine . |
| 14 | Retirement , in this sense , is considered to be a natural and inevitable period of peace and dignity , fully enabled and recognized by both law and social provision . |
| 15 | A requirement for an explanation of all material changes between the current and prior period in the level of revenue investment was also proposed . |
| 16 | It was only twenty-one years since Salisbury had concluded his long and successful period of power , and only twenty-eight years since another peer ( Rosebery ) had presided ( although less successfully ) over a Liberal Government . |
| 17 | A reasonable employer would not , for example , be entitled to instruct a man who has just resumed work following a major heart attack to undertake immediately a long and arduous period of foreign travel . |
| 18 | In Britain , this moment has several phases during a long and turbulent period from the late-eighteenth century to the 1840s . |
| 19 | 1970 saw the start of a long and happy period for me in command of Venturous . |
| 20 | Had he done that — and this is advice every sensible lawyer would have given to him — he might have been able to return to public life without the long and painful period of atonement to which he was exposed . |
| 21 | I had a feeling when I read those words over 40 years ago , and written in the heat of the aftermath of a long and tiresome period of war , that Sir Arthur might have wished he had put it differently . |
| 22 | Andreeva went on to complain of historical plays , such as those of Mikhail Shatrov , which were arbitrary in their interpretation and close to the views that had been put forward by Lenin 's opponents , and she deplored the obsessive interest in Stalin among many writers , obscuring the fact that his was a complex and transitional period in which industrialisation , collectivisation and a cultural revolution had brought the USSR into the ranks of the great powers . |
| 23 | Lucid , intelligent , and shrewd , this is a most useful contribution to a fascinating but little-studied period of history . |
| 24 | This process is begun more explicitly in Barthes 's S/Z which in its change of direction opens what is now called the post-structuralist era and marks the end of the so-called classical or scientific period of structuralism . |
| 25 | The currently fashionable and oft repeated litany is that although the world air transport industry is presently going through a fundamental and painful period of change , this will ultimately lead to a new and improved deployment of resources , through the creation of far fewer but infinitely larger air carriers . |
| 26 | But no business or any other public service other than education has — as have maintained schools and colleges — to engage with every family , child and parent in the land for a long , important and compulsory period of years . |
| 27 | There 's one other aspect , I think , of this period , this immensely important and fertile period in Russell 's life , which is worth emphasis . |
| 28 | There is a critical or sensitive period for the introduction of solid food between 7 and 10 months of age . |
| 29 | In the kitchens below , the other group of devotees , those addicted to cuisine and at the moment wondering why , were entering the most vital and concentrated period of Auguste 's schedule . |
| 30 | This requires massive investment in maintaining the habitat while the species is propagated in captivity and then a difficult and extensive period of re-introduction , re-stocking or translocation . |