Example sentences of "short period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Payback on the investment is on target at four-and-a-half years for the Derwent and an even shorter period for the Victoria . |
| 2 | The court can specify a longer or shorter period for investigation . |
| 3 | Such a clock will wake an individual when a certain stage of the sleep/wake cycle is reached ; if he goes to bed late then that stage will be reached after a shorter period of sleep than usual . |
| 4 | In addition to this decrease in size child bearing is now concentrated into a much shorter period of a woman 's life . |
| 5 | Given this shorter period of experimentation with other drugs prior to heroin use , it could be expected that these informants would have exhibited less variety in their pre-heroin polydrug use . |
| 6 | The nationalities concerned are generally Lutheran ( Estonians and Latvians ) or Roman Catholic ( Lithuanians ) by religion , not Orthodox , and they have been under Soviet rule for a much shorter period of time than most other nationalities , since 1940 rather than the immediate post-revolutionary period ( when communist-led governments were briefly established in all three republics ) . |
| 7 | Normally an application must be served at least fourteen days before the hearing of it , though the court has power to extend or abridge time under s 376 , and under r 7.4(6) the court may hear an application immediately , with or without the attendance of the other party , or authorise a shorter period of service . |
| 8 | Only 4.3% of the subjects in the violent condition could subsequently recall the number on the jersey whereas 27.9% in the non-violent condition were able to despite actually having seen the boy for a shorter period of time . |
| 9 | An operating lease lasts for a much shorter period of time than the economic life of the asset and the lessor retains the risks and rewards of ownership . |
| 10 | This probably reflects the shorter period of monitoring rather than any protective effect of the gastroscopy on cardiac rhythm ( Table II ) . |
| 11 | Therefore this apparent reduction in their rate of occurrence is a reflection of the comparatively shorter period of monitoring during the procedure . |
| 12 | For those seeking to complete only part of the programme an MPhil can be awarded for a shorter period of study . |
| 13 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
| 14 | Now that 's , that 's perfectly valid but if the business actually improves , it takes off , you could have this advantage to , to do it over a shorter period of time , maybe in ten years ' time when business is really |
| 15 | would prefer that too er partly because it would give everybody an opportunity to look at the particular problem er in , in , in , in , in a shorter period of time , erm we are also cheered by the recent visit to England by the minister there Mr who made certain promises , I think it would be useful if Mr who a candidate at the meeting would reiterate his promises publicly today , thank you Chairman . |
| 16 | These quirks of fate , combined with Jane Brown 's own enthusiasms ( she is the author of a fine book on the Lutyens-Jekyll partnership ) have resulted in a narrative in which the gardens of the Arts and Crafts movement , a relatively short period between 1890-1914 , get twice the space of the gardens of either the eighteenth or the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | Apart from a short period between May 1929 and October 1931 , it was the largest political party throughout the inter-war years . |
| 18 | Because of the short period between birth and marketing , the treatment of PGE in lambs is an inferior policy compared with the preventive measures discussed below . |
| 19 | During my relatively short period as a city detective , I was implicitly aware that quality had to be sacrificed to quantity , for the ‘ arrest list ’ was checked monthly and the numerical totals counted . |
| 20 | I remember a graphic example of this when I was working for a blessedly short period as a Russian interpreter in Berlin in 1946 . |
| 21 | Future historians may one day look back on this short period as a golden guilt-free age for parents ! |
| 22 | Should the call come within the next week , I shall be taking out a full-page advert in the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus to express my thanks to you all for your support during my short period as manager . |
| 23 | After a short period as a private tutor , he became private secretary to the Liberal industrialist MP , Sir John Brunner [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , I had an odd feeling about this fellow and it came to me many times during my short period as an Instructor . |
| 25 | I was particularly distressed when I personally sanctioned his return to operational flying after a short period as an instructor at an OTU . |
| 26 | It seems very likely , indeed , that an extension of democratic and decentralized planning would lead to an even larger role for the social sciences in the formation of public policies , if one may judge from the expansion and the greater utilization of them which has already occurred in the short period during which the present welfare states have developed . |
| 27 | In the case of keg milds and bitters when fermentation is complete they are conditioned for a short period under gas pressure and are then filtered to remove yeast solids and pasteurised . |
| 28 | After a short period under Mr Nind 's regime , they had started writing their letters backwards . |
| 29 | Like the other Alternanthera species , this only survives for a short period under water . |
| 30 | The eggs are not immediately infective , but need a short period outside the body to mature . |