Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work will be carried out relaying pavings in Library Square from Monday 23 March for a period of approximately four weeks . |
| 2 | As well as establishing a nominated Senate and a Legislature elected by universal male suffrage , it gave the presidency to Louis-Napoleon for a period of ten years . |
| 3 | The move was described by the Independent of April 20 as marking " a renewal of close co-operation between France and [ West ] Germany after a period of uncertainty generated by the speed of German unification " . |
| 4 | The Law Society requires newly qualified solicitors to undertake approved CPD for a period of three years on pain of withdrawal of their practising certificate . |
| 5 | On seeing my person , he took the opportunity to inform me that he had just that moment finalized plans to return to the United States for a period of five weeks between August and September . |
| 6 | I was seized one day with the desire to go to the United States for a period of study . |
| 7 | Itzhak Shamir , the Prime Minister and Likud leader , announced at the end of a Cabinet meeting on Dec. 31 that he was dismissing Weizmann from the Cabinet , claiming that Weizmann had maintained contacts with the PLO over a period of time . |
| 8 | ‘ He sent a message to the governor explaining that the thefts continued to take place at a time when the firm had transferred me to England for a period of six months . |
| 9 | At the height of Celtic 's success , the club 's disciplinarian manager Willie Maley took his team to a luxury hotel in Dunbar for a period of training and relaxation . |
| 10 | It was perhaps typical of Ferguson that his home debut for Scotland after a period of prolonged difficulty on and off the field should be an unfettered display of the forward 's rich gifts . |
| 11 | The stardom sort of crept up on Nicholson over a period of weeks . |
| 12 | But this is surely nitpicking , in what can be viewed as a significant contribution to our knowledge of so many aspects relating to the ordinary citizens of Florence over a period of more than 200 years . |
| 13 | Thereafter , two additional 1 ml pulses were instilled : a 100 µmol HCl bolus , as a mild irritant , and a pulse of 300 , 400 , 500 , 600 , or 700 µmol HCl after a period of 30 minutes . |
| 14 | Remarkable posters designed from his Brighton Studio for the Academy Cinema in Oxford Street over a period of forty years — each in effect a ‘ portrait ’ of the film . |
| 15 | And has been resident in the United Kingdom for a period of not less than ten years . ’ |
| 16 | On 22 May 1807 he joined the Royal Naval College in Portsmouth for a period of eighteen months after which , as a midshipman , he served in Lavinia in the Mediterranean and north Atlantic for more than three years . |
| 17 | The defensive characteristics of the distributors are illustrated in the healthy performance of W H Smith and Menzies during a period of recession . |
| 18 | The weather had been typical for August with a period of heavy rain and the men returning to work found that a land slip had occurred . |
| 19 | In this way many kept an account going at Gieves over a period of years for a modest monthly sum of two or three pounds . |
| 20 | Sixty five patients with rheumatoid arthritis ( n= 57 ) or osteoarthritis ( n=7 ) and taking NSAIDs for a period of greater than three months ( mean 4.5 ( SD 3.1 ) years ) were recruted from a rheumatology clinic to undergo a screening upper gastrointestinal endoscopy before entry into a therapeutic trial that had been approved by the hospital ethics committee . |
| 21 | Fig. 9.1 Age-sex profiles for Great Britain over a period of 130 years . |
| 22 | In each case a small working party met within SHHD over a period of a number of months . |
| 23 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 24 | Plants in some 34 families were used in Borneo over a period of 16 months and all but 5 were sources of fruit . |
| 25 | 1979 ) to measure the time delay for reflections from Mars over a period of 14 months . |
| 26 | November 1989 Australia unveils a peace plan involving UN administration of Cambodia during a period of transition to free elections [ see pp. 37186-87 ] . |
| 27 | Barry remembers his time at Ealing as a period of intense learning : ‘ It was very much a team effort there , with an awful lot of give and take . |
| 28 | Rosemount 's own calibration standard , which is an essential part of their absolute pressure transducer production capability , was sent to the National Institute for Standards Technology ( NIST ) in America for a period of ten weeks for recertification . |
| 29 | ‘ Travelling on the train to and from Folkestone and London over a period of months I knitted a bright pink jumper . |
| 30 | The tiny Aussie star , who scored 17 smash hits with svengali Pete Waterman 's record label PWL over a period of five years , admits : ‘ I was bored with being told to smile and go out and make money . ’ |