Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JEB Fasteners had purchased all the shares in a private company having relied on its accounts for a period of about a year since incorporation . |
| 2 | The statement , signed P. O'Neill , Dublin , said : ‘ Volunteers of the IRA across the six counties will temporarily suspend hostile military operations for a period of 72 hours . ’ |
| 3 | She may be able to work different hours for a period of time while her burden is shared by another member of the family or a neighbour . |
| 4 | Scotch whisky must be matured in oak casks for a period of not less than three years . |
| 5 | The National House Building Council ( NHBC ) , which guarantees the structure of most new houses for a period of 10 years and issues detailed technical instructions for the design and construction of dwellings , claimed that the ‘ World in Action ’ programme was ‘ alarmist ’ . |
| 6 | Miyazawa 's recent calls for a period of renewed economic growth in Japan and for a cut in Japanese interest rates ( implying a weakening of the yen and a growth in the trade surplus ) were also received with concern in the USA . |
| 7 | They 'll look back on that opening forty minutes as a period of massively missed opportunity . |
| 8 | Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship . |
| 9 | BET has been struggling to pay off debts after a period of over-expansion combined with the recession to hit profits . |
| 10 | The Finance Ministry announced on Oct. 8 that it was to punish all four by banning them from trading in equities for a period of one month . |
| 11 | Our evaluation of PNP caught schools during a period of transition , from laissez-faire to the much greater LEA intervention that PNP signalled , and from a largely local orientation to one framed by national policies and directives . |
| 12 | As a result , shop stewards have been more closely tied to their work groups , and in several industries created spontaneous , coordinated organisations at factory level to take advantage of increased bargaining opportunities during a period of high economic activity . |
| 13 | As a result , shop stewards have been more closely tied to their work groups , and in several industries created spontaneous , coordinated organisations at factory level to take advantage of increased bargaining opportunities during a period of high economic activity . |
| 14 | He also said that if Poland would agree to an extra-territorial railway line to run across the Corridor , linking Stettin , Danzig and Königsberg , Germany would agree to guarantee Polish borders for a period of 25 years . |
| 15 | General statutory and business warranties for a period of 2-3 years . |
| 16 | The main characteristics of a period of standstill are : |
| 17 | Only last week , the last time I sat in court er there was an instance of one individual who had had twelve cautions in a period of eight months er he was still a youth so his name obviously can not be divulged , erm and it 's not only the cautions , I wonder how many warnings he 'd received as well . |
| 18 | It must be stated , however , that the rebuilding of reserves in a period of financial stringency , when the unit of resource is reducing and greater efficiencies are constantly being required of universities , is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve . |
| 19 | The particular contribution of the teaching of French to pupils ' perceptions will be explored through observation by a researcher based in the two schools over a period of at least six months . |
| 20 | The probes were connected to a portable recorder ( Digitrapper — Synectics Medical , Sweden ) capable of holding data from two channels over a period of 24 hours . |
| 21 | Davies v. Sumner is the leading authority on the meaning of the expression ‘ in the course of a business ’ and has been followed in a case under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , R. & B. Customs Brokers v. United Dominion Trust , where it was held that a business 's buying of two or three cars over a period of five years was an insufficient degree of regularity for the latest such purchase to be regarded as made in the course of the business ( see paragraph 10–18 above . ) |
| 22 | The practical effect of this wording is that for a claim to be covered the casualty must be reasonably attributable to an identifiable accident the source of which is external to the craft — thus the craft filling with water on its moorings over a period of weeks and then foundering would not be covered . |
| 23 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 24 | But then , there can be no difference between producing x units over a period at one site and unc units for half the period at that site followed by unc at another site for the rest of the period . |
| 25 | He said it would change and tone a man in three five-minute sessions over a period of a week . |
| 26 | For example , it is clear from work with an English- and Punjabi-speaking family in Newcastle upon Tyne , where a young white woman carried out modified participant observation sessions over a period of several months , that no male , regardless of age or ethnicity , would be allowed into the house ( Scothern 1985 ) . |
| 27 | There is no obligation to buy any books over a period of time . |
| 28 | The Manor was an important landmark during the annual and ancient custom called the ‘ perambulation of Purton ’ , during Rogation Tide in May , when a large procession , headed by the clergyman , would beat the bounds over a period of two days . |
| 29 | The Medical Correspondent of the UK Sunday Times reported in May 1990 that the anti-oestrogen drug , tamoxifen , used for several years to treat women actually suffering from breast-cancer , is now to be tested on 30,000 human subjects over a period of five years to assess its potential as a preventative of the disease in healthy women . |
| 30 | The results of these labours over a period of fifty years were many papers and five influential books , the last two of which were completed by his son . |