Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | A currency which gradually adjusts up or down over a period of time , depending on the intrinsic strength of the economy which supports it , is much less likely to attract the eye of the speculator than one which is about to burst the artificial dam which has been built around it . |
| 2 | And Financial Assurance ( 081–367 6000 ) was paying 8.05% on £5,000 or more for a period of four years . |
| 3 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 4 | And eventually after a period of time that ins outer insulation will wear down , it will fray and it will break and it will expose the live and the neutral wires until , unfortunately sometimes , it will be a little bit too late . |
| 5 | However , fearing that the UN force would legitimize the loss of its territory to Serbia , Croatia also continued to insist that the force should be deployed only on the 560-km front lines and only for a period of six months . |
| 6 | It is much better to build up endurance levels gradually and gently over a period of weeks and months . |
| 7 | A typical building of 10 storeys will sway back and forth in a period of 1 second , giving it a natural frequency of 1 cycle per second or 1 hertz . |
| 8 | And even over a period as long as 15 years we would be paying a lot less ( £184 millions ) than the £684 millions that will go next year to safeguard the Falkland Islands from the Argentinians — a matter which many ecologists see as a fight between two bald men over the possession of a comb . |
| 9 | ( 3 ) They would have free elections — but only after a period of institutionalising the revolution had been completed . |
| 10 | You will need to spray at three day intervals at least three or four times , but preferably over a period of several weeks to control any new pests as soon as they hatch , before they can reproduce . |