Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are unable to work as a result of sickness or accident for a period of more than 14 consecutive days , then your monthly Home Improvement Loan repayments will be made for you , until you are fit enough to return to work . |
| 2 | ( ii ) where the specified event happens in respect of a beneficial owner of a share , a member may , notwithstanding sub-paragraph ( 2 ) ( a ) of this Rule , continue to hold such share for the beneficial owner or , as the case may be , his trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator for a period of not longer than six months from the date of the specified event ; provided that no voting rights shall be exercised in respect of any share held in reliance of this sub-paragraph . |
| 3 | ( ii ) where the specified event happens in respect of a beneficial owner of a share , a member may , notwithstanding sub-paragraph ( 2 ) ( a ) of this Rule , continue to hold such share for the beneficial owner or , as the case may be , his trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator from a period of not longer than six months from the date of the specified event ; provided that no voting rights shall be exercised in respect of any share held in reliance of this sub-paragraph . |
| 4 | The systematic application of energy to a surface or substance over a period of time with the intention of removing dirt . |
| 5 | The answer is that it is simply the degree of an experience 's pleasantness or painfulness taken at a moment , or its average pleasantness or painfulness over a period . |
| 6 | You can work towards a degree or diploma over a period of years — or choose single courses lasting a few weeks or months , from an enormous list of topics ranging from childcare to computer science . |
| 7 | Traditionally in anthropology , the ethnographer has studied a social system or culture through a period of intensive participant observation in the field . |
| 8 | In view of the high incidence of these arrangements in Leeds , and their adoption and dissemination during a period when the massive resourcing of PNP appeared to have little impact on reading test scores , it might be worth carefully pondering HMI 's finding , referred to towards the end of the previous chapter , that |
| 9 | He admitted ten charges of possessing and supplying cannabis and speed over a period of a year . |
| 10 | Of course , one of the main difficulties in this kind of research lies in the collection of accurate information about events and experiences over a period of twenty years or more . |
| 11 | A programme of lectures , seminars and visits over a period of time is most likely to meet that need . |
| 12 | Will the attack on democracy be as outrageous as killing all blue-eyed babies , or will it be a more insidious erosion of rights and liberties over a period of time ? |
| 13 | After superficial induction to bureau life , through discussion and self-study over a period of approximately four weeks , trainees will take a two-day course in basic interviewing skills . |
| 14 | The defensive characteristics of the distributors are illustrated in the healthy performance of W H Smith and Menzies during a period of recession . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The effect was to make it difficult for children to contribute to their own support , let alone the support of other people , thus removing the reciprocal nature of support between the young and their parents ' generation , and establishing childhood and youth as a period of one-way dependence of the young on their parents ( Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Anderson , 1980 ; Gittins , 1986 ) . |
| 17 | Some have a substantial occupational pension , and possible capital accumulation which might allow for the provision of goods and services in a period of dependency . |
| 18 | First , as will be demonstrated below , he tends to underplay the severity of the violence which occurred at places like Grunwick and Hadfields during a period supposedly devoid of such conflict . |
| 19 | ICI , on the other hand , runs a career break scheme where breaks are available for both men and women for a period of between two and five years . |
| 20 | ‘ Travelling on the train to and from Folkestone and London over a period of months I knitted a bright pink jumper . |
| 21 | Hynes catches adroitly the flavour of poetry and politics in a period when even poetry found it impossible to be politically neutral , and he writes perceptively of the underlying links between such disparate writers as , for example , Isherwood and Greene . |
| 22 | Editor , — We recently highlighted an increase in unsafe sexual behaviour and transmission of HIV among homosexual men in England and Wales after a period of decline . |