Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 2 | Every Buddhist boy became a monk for a period , it might be for a lent , or a year or two , it might continue for a lifetime or be as short as a week . |
| 3 | Many aspects of our environment show a rhythm with a period of 24 hours as a result of this solar day . |
| 4 | THE WEST Lancashire Light Railway , the passenger-carrying narrow gauge line at Hesketh Bank between Southport and Preston , moves into the twentieth century with the introduction of a telephone after a period of twenty-four years . |
| 5 | Checklists are not appropriate for people who do not have inti-mate knowledge of a child over a period of some weeks . |
| 6 | You wo n't be granted a divorce until a period of a year has elapsed and during that period you 'll have to work out access and maintenance for the children . |
| 7 | With the new proposals it seems the needs of the children will be put first because you wo n't be granted a divorce until a period of a year has elapsed and during that period you 'll have to work out access and maintenance for the children and put their needs first and that seems very good . |
| 8 | A child may appear before a hearing for reasons other than offences ; and he will have a disposal tailored to his needs for care rather than to the seriousness of the offence ; and a child may not only be put under a supervision requirement for reasons other than an offence , but he may remain under such a requirement for a period of years for reasons completely unconnected with breaches of the criminal law . |
| 9 | In practice , the average is usually a time average ; one observes and averages the velocity at a point over a period long enough for separate measurements to give effectively the same result . |
| 10 | Anthropologists , for example , are able to interpret a culture , at first sight inexplicable to those from a different culture , by living with , talking to and observing people in a community over a period of years . |
| 11 | Manual workers made up a large proportion of the TUC membership , and the health of many of these was depicted as having been destroyed by their employment ; and , moreover , it was held that all workers had a right to a period of leisure in later life supported by-a full subsistence pension . |
| 12 | RATE ( DEMOGRAPHIC ) — The relative frequency of occurrence of a demographic even ( e.g. births , deaths , etc. ) in a population during a period of time ( usually a calendar year ) . |
| 13 | Longer-term effects were studied in four young couples , three who normally slept about 8 hours every night , and one who slept 6.5 hours a night , who volunteered to attempt to reduce their sleep progressively to 4.5 hours a night over a period of between six and eight months . |
| 14 | She pestered the appropriate officer , several times a day over a period of three weeks . |
| 15 | Many practitioners these days combine both schools of thought , using repeated doses of low potencies for pathological prescribing : for example , Rhustoxicodendron 6X twice a day for a period of several weeks in cases of arthritis where the condition is aggravated by damp weather and rest ; and giving , at the same time , a single dose of a high potency prescribed on constitutional grounds — that is , the whole symptom complex of the patient . |
| 16 | Both parties can get something from that situation , if you trust people and you look at things a relationship over a period of time rather than this particular thing this is what I want now this is what I 'm gon na get rather than well okay I 'll help you do this now and later on they 'll help me do something else , it becomes a win win . |
| 17 | Is there a guarantee of a period of employment following training ? |
| 18 | Playing with a puppy for a period beforehand often helps to make it want to sleep at night . |
| 19 | ‘ The FA has therefore fined Mr Jones £20,000 and imposed a suspension for a period of six months , suspended for three years . |
| 20 | Scientific studies carried out a few years ago revealed that regular sunbed users ( those using a bed more than once a week over a period of a few years ) now have a condition called skin fragility syndrome . |
| 21 | In that case a lease for a period of six months from 10 June 1920 was expressed to continue from half year to half year until determined . |
| 22 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 23 | A currency hoard is a sum of money put together by drawing all its coins from circulation on a single occasion , whereas a savings hoard is formed by gradually adding coins to a hoard over a period of several years ; the difference in the way the coins were collected will affect the internal composition of the hoard . |
| 24 | Then I learned that if I did not make these payments I would be registered as a debtor for a period of six years . |
| 25 | He also made it a condition that she be treated by a psychiatrist for a period not exceeding one year . |
| 26 | While temporarily unloaded from any of the said vehicles in the course of a journey for a period of up to 72 hours ( not counting Sunday or any Public Holiday ) anywhere in England Scotland or Wales . |
| 27 | She let it be known that this was a cause she would wish to be supported and therefore we intend to open a Fund for a period of six months from 1st March — 1st September at the end of which time the Society will donate the money to the hospital in Molly 's name . |
| 28 | The next part of the treatment is to ask him to visualize such a situation over a period of a week or two while , at the same time , trying to refrain from the sexual act itself — although kissing and caressing his partner , whether in bed or not , is to be encouraged . |
| 29 | ( On the formation of the NAR administration in December 1986 Gordon had agreed to serve as a minister for a period of three years . ) |
| 30 | He was too depressed even to care about travelling back on the tube with his right wrist in a sling during a period which the Tooting Guardian had described as a peak time for knife attacks . |