Example sentences of "be a [adj] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | In England there was to have been a four-year transitional period , commencing in 1990 , during which the community charge would have been gradually introduced and rates phased out , but the Secretary of State , in response to pressure from his own party , agreed late in 1987 that with the exception of a handful of London boroughs ( where some flexibility remains ) the community charge should be introduced throughout England in 1990 without any phasing-in period . |
| 2 | The four year hiatus has been a good old-fashioned period of reappraisal ; he 's learnt to become a good father , he says , while the composing has flourished . |
| 3 | I suggested to Wilson that there had to be a short cooling-off period , after which Max Aitken would be a suitable person to go to Rhodesia as an unofficial ambassador , since in the war he had flown with Smith in the RAF and they had become good friends . |
| 4 | It would be better if , as in private law , there were a longer fixed period which could be extended only in exceptional cases on stated and reasonably precise grounds . |
| 5 | There are two possible reasons for your Bearded Collie being wild about wood , the first being a second teething period , which some dogs go through . |
| 6 | The first , Fourways , is a two-bedroom detached period property with a front garden in need of complete modernisation . |
| 7 | Typically there is a long latent period between radiation exposure and detection of a tumour , which is because of the time required for sufficient increase in the size of the tumour to make it detectable , and may also be due in part to a form of induction period before the initially affected cell or cells start to divide and form a tumour , or before the tumour assumes ‘ malignant ’ characteristics of growth and spreading . |