Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as establishing a nominated Senate and a Legislature elected by universal male suffrage , it gave the presidency to Louis-Napoleon for a period of ten years . |
| 2 | ‘ He sent a message to the governor explaining that the thefts continued to take place at a time when the firm had transferred me to England for a period of six months . |
| 3 | Difficulties in returning to work after a period out of the labour market are particularly likely to be experienced by older women : |
| 4 | As Heather Joshi has estimated ( see Chapter 8 here ) , women returning to work after a period caring for children or at a later stage of the life cycle are likely to re-enter the labour market at lower rates of pay . |
| 5 | the submission of statistics direct to Customs on a period basis rather than by individual movement . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State for the Environment told the House of Commons that ‘ after taking legal advice ’ he had decided that ‘ the term ‘ maximum admissible concentration ’ in the European Community Drinking Water Directive should relate to individual samples and not to averages over a period ’ . |
| 7 | Protection was of little use to farmers in a period of declining world prices for agricultural products , while the machinery and other industrial goods they bought would be dearer . |
| 8 | Since females in these species become available to males over a period of weeks or months , the possibility exists for some males to mate with several females during the course of a breeding season . |
| 9 | My next trip was not so pleasant but nonetheless enlightening , It was with a scratch crew and an experienced navigator who , like myself , had returned to ops after a period in the training world , but also ( like myself ) utterly clueless about present day operations . |
| 10 | After our break-up she went to Australia for a period . |
| 11 | While not giving details of the pricing , he said that the price-performance curve on the 80486 is the basis for pricing of the Pentium and that he expected the sort of dynamic that applied to the 80486 to apply to the Pentium as well — the 80486 being introduced at $900 to $1,000 and falling to $200 over a period of four years — at a rate of 30% per year . |
| 12 | £40 per day , tax-free , as soon as you 're admitted to hospital for a period of up to one year . |
| 13 | Thus he favoured co-operation with other major industrial states in the hope that sterling might be restored to health over a period of three or four years . |
| 14 | Mr Morgan , who was married with three grown-up children , had returned briefly to school after a period of illness . |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Blackburn produces wholly fictitious figures which compare the new building costs for new schools or for the conversion of schools to CTCs over a period of three years with the capital expenditure borrowing guidelines for 14 authorities in one year . |
| 16 | Seismic data were returned to Earth over a period of a few years from these five stations , though they were reduced to four when the Apollo 11 station stopped working . |
| 17 | By an order dated 5 June 1992 made on the application of Brent London Borough Council , the second defendant in wardship proceedings , the judge committed M. , the plaintiff in the proceedings , to prison for a period of six months for , inter alia , assaulting an employee of the local authority in court and for damaging property within the precincts of the Royal Courts of Justice . |