Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Studies using X-ray analysis have shown that some paintings , such as Renoir 's The umbrellas , were painted over a period of years , with several definite alterations and distinct stages involved in the painting . |
| 2 | John Szarkowski wrote in the preface to the first volume : " Atget 's own prints were made over a period of many years , on a variety of photographic papers . |
| 3 | Certainly , it seems very possible that both were produced in a period of reconstruction immediately following the termination of hostilities and the payment of compensation for Mul . |
| 4 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 5 | There is some evidence that Cornish tin-mining maintained a reasonable level of production , although with some fluctuations : a sharp drop just after the Black Death and a boom at the end of the fourteenth century were followed by a period of depression in the half-century after 1430 , with a considerable recovery by the early sixteenth century . |
| 6 | Delegates to the district zemstva were elected for a period of three years by three categories of voter voting separately : landowners , property-owners in the towns , and delegates from the volosti . |
| 7 | Harris reported a survey in Newcastle Polytechnic library in which 8,500 volumes ( or 10% of the stock ) were studied for a period of 19 months . |
| 8 | In the Hall study accidents at 177 signalized crossroads were analysed over a period of four years , over this period accidents involving a vehicle turning right outnumbered those to vehicles turning left by a ratio of 6.6:1 ( accidents involving one vehicle turning in each direction were excluded from the analysis ) . |
| 9 | In addition , potential shareholders were offered telephone vouchers or a bonus share issue if the shares were held for a period of three years , in order to try to prevent the immediate sale of shares after the issue . |
| 10 | District competitions were held over a period of six months and finalists and runners-up from these matches went on to represent their district at the area competition . |
| 11 | Spare Rib was already well established , and was joined for a period by the Leveller , another collective magazine , and the East End News , which produced the first attempt to appeal to ‘ the masses ’ of East London by dressing up Right-On concerns in chirpy Chas'n'Dave-style modernized Cockney . |
| 12 | A project to research the method was undertaken over a period of approximately one year on a part-time basis ; at various stages a number of different practitioners from management services disciplines were involved , each receiving some informal training on the principles and practice of soft systems analysis . |
| 13 | This case study was undertaken over a period of two months through a series of day visits to the school . |
| 14 | The system was developed over a period of about 10 years and arrived on the market in three stages . |
| 15 | The dividing line between a fixed ‘ site ’ and a portable ‘ find ’ is often a narrow one : for example , the site of the ship Mary Rose was excavated over a period of several years , but when the remains of the ship itself were eventually raised , they were treated like any other waterlogged find , albeit on a much larger scale . |
| 16 | The initial crisis of the reign was succeeded by a period of prolonged negotiations . |
| 17 | According to Barclays Computer Operations , Barclay 's services arm which manages the data centres , the old kit was installed over a period of one to four years . |
| 18 | This dormer was added to a period property by Priory Loft Conversions |
| 19 | The publication of this document was preceded by a period of nationwide discussion and consultation which began in 1987 with the publication of Scottish Education Department Circular No.1157 indicating the Secretary of State 's intentions with regard to the development of S.C.E. Short Courses for implementation into the curriculum in Scottish Secondary Schools . |
| 20 | A lease was granted for a period of five years in which the tenant agreed to pay the landlord a sum equivalent to two months rent as a security deposit . |
| 21 | And it was done like this , this was done at a period when this church was changing from a Roman Catholic church The the window the original glass in this was a massive stained glass window of the crucifixion , and that had been put there in the fifteenth century by a Lord Mayor of York who was very wealthy and very religious and he wanted to show how wealthy and religious he was by pu er donating this window to the church . |
| 22 | It is perhaps necessary to set the scene for this remarkable decade in the history of the District to show the ways in which the firm foundation for subsequent growth and consolidation was secured following a period of more than twenty years of uncertainty and improvision . |
| 23 | Police believe the tape was made over a period of time . |
| 24 | It includes Conwy and Caernarfon , whose castles were only begun in 1283 and not finished until 1292 , and it has therefore been suggested that it was made over a period of years . |
| 25 | It was written following a period of pioneering work on the application of matrices to engineering problems , undertaken by Frazer , Duncan and Collar at the N.P.L. , Teddington , in the 1930s . |
| 26 | Joel Gascoyne was apprenticed for a period of seven years from 21 October 1668 to John Thornton . |
| 27 | The same chart was used over a period of 4 weeks . |
| 28 | Where a property was sold following a period of letting , Customs had argued that the Association no longer had a ‘ person constructing ’ status and was not , therefore , entitled to claim input relief on property selling costs . |
| 29 | The M1 was opened for a period at junction one yesterday , to relieve congestion . |
| 30 | An era of ultranationalism had withered the fragile plant of democracy whose seed had been sown in the 1890 constitution , and the 1930s was interpreted as a period of aberration in Japan 's progress towards a democratic society . |