Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | petals strongly and sweetly perfumed , retained over a long period when dried , used in perfumery , potpourris , for perfuming writing paper . |
| 2 | Hatching occurred over a two-month period commencing at the end of June , with most juveniles emerging in mid-July . |
| 3 | ( Martial arts are a way of life — skills learnt and practised over a long period , used to tune the mind and body to a state of superb readiness . |
| 4 | The church began in late Saxon times and developed over a long period , finally being made redundant in the 1960s , when part of it collapsed . |
| 5 | Using data collected over a 2-year period from plots under a variety of management techniques , ranging from maize cultivation to a range of pasture grasses , they report that soil erosion and nutrient losses were greatest from maize ( Zea mays ) and guinea grass ( Panicum maximum Jacq. ) plots . |
| 6 | This perspective is inadequate for an understanding of the colonial legal system because the post-independence practices evolved over a long period of time . |
| 7 | Writing the play brought back a whole period of his early life : not merely the marriage to Vivien but the friendship with Emily Hale . |
| 8 | Some 15 improved variants of Mig-21 emerged over a 25-year period , to impressive effect : the latest models possessing almost double the range and payload of the first . |
| 9 | The use of the courts to end a railroad strike in 1922 ushered in a lean period for the unions . |
| 10 | The composition of these works stretched over a considerable period of time . |
| 11 | The older men in particular portray inspection as an art whose techniques , absorbed over a long period , become almost intuitive . |
| 12 | It is no longer adequate just to produce a plan of a church : all walls and elevations need to be examined closely , since most churches are built , developed and extended over a long period . |
| 13 | This was a process which extended over a long period , and in the seventeenth century the extent of their privileges in this respect was still far from clear . |
| 14 | Those who said they would prefer the smallest possible instalments , spread over a long period , were most commonly people in lower socio-economic groups , people with current credit commitments , and people with whom the amount they said they would borrow ( if they borrowed money ) was relatively small . |
| 15 | The waste , accumulated over a 40-year period , will remain dangerously radioactive for tens of thousands of years . |
| 16 | The US Energy Department needs to find a site to store nuclear waste accumulated over a forty-year period which will remain dangerously radioactive for tens of thousands of years . |
| 17 | Much will depend on the overall political climate and whether this can be changed sufficiently by a combined strategy conducted over a sustained period . |
| 18 | This meant they missed virtually a whole period every day . |