Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rostov stopped , aware that he had been indulging his capacity for mental arithmetic for easily twice that period of time . |
| 2 | We have also used a more leisurely 3-month period for trainees at the beginning of their professional careers . |
| 3 | It has the rather unusually long period of 547 days . |
| 4 | Lynne Segal 's previous Virago book Is the Future Female ? was a spirited discussion of the nature and function of ‘ femininities ’ , especially in recent decades ; published in 1987 , at the most politically depressing period of Thatcherism when the socialist-feminist vision seemed a distant memory or hopeless pipedream , Segal defended her optimism about women 's astonishing progress since the 1960s , and about the fracturing of gender identities which she saw as irreversible . |
| 5 | So if we hear any screeching noises or bells , which er do n't turn off after a very very short period of time , we are to er make our way in an orderly fashion to the er base of the staircase of the fire escape , following the fire escape er signs . |