Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] a period " in BNC.

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1 In addition to exploring the influences upon arrears , this approach will allow the course of arrears to be traced over a period of time .
2 However , the emphasis has shifted in that the business is now controlled by the purchaser rather than the vendor and the earn out will be calculated over a period of perhaps several years following completion .
3 This reiterated the belief , common among all those concerned with the youth question , that ‘ adolescence ’ should be regarded as a period of education , supervision , control , and guidance .
4 On that assumption , Theunis Krankoor 's arrival in Cape Town can be placed within a period of about fifteen years , after the implementation of the full Napoleonic legal code in the Netherlands and before the birth of his first child , James , who , according to his wedding and death registrations , was born in the Cape Colony about 1823 or 1824 .
5 Stonesfield , with its many stylistic parallels with the Woodchester mosaic , likewise , can be assigned to a period between 300 and 340 .
6 It heralded a flood of Italian imitation such as might be expected of a period when English culture was particularly fascinated by everything Italian .
7 The schemes , to be prepared within a period of three years from that date , were still to relate to land in course of development , or earmarked for development .
8 Furthermore measurement has usually to be made over a period of time .
9 It was also true that the reformers were more interested in what practical achievements could be made by a period of liberalisation .
10 Such nominations to be made within a period of time and under conditions mentioned therein .
11 In May of this year , we were pressed by Amnesty International and other refugee groups to speed up the process of determination , and the Bill before the House , which will be debated next week , sets out a scheme that will allow determination to be decided within a period of three months .
12 The trench warfare of the early 1980s was replaced by more subtle forms of guerrilla conflict , in which the guiding principles are no longer so straightforward , yet the consequences of change may be rather more significant , to the extent that the '80s as a whole might justifiably be seen as a period of structural change .
13 Doing it manually , it had to be done over a period of two or three days , fitting it in after work . ’
14 Wherever the terms require something to be done within a period of time , the drafter should also consider what are to be the consequences of a failure to comply .
15 Where information , particularly of a detailed nature , is to be collected over a period of time the panel has clear attractions .
16 In March of the following year Mr Henderson was appointed treasurer of the Building Fund and the cost of the building scheme was estimated at £18,000 a sum which could be met over a period of 7 years .
17 The stimulus to demand would be felt during a period of expansion and so would exacerbate any inflationary pressures which might be building up .
18 Kenneth Clarke , when Home Secretary , announced the establishment of secure training centres where young people aged up to fifteen years could be sentenced for a period of up to two years .
19 Thus the process of convergence to the play in the full information game can be interpreted as a period of temporary reputation .
20 If so , the guarantee will be renegotiated for a period of two years and Harley will receive a royalty on sales of two per cent . ’
21 Alternatively a range of different video materials could be used in a period earmarked for video .
22 It did suggest that the principles of confidentiality should be preserved for a period of fifteen years instead of thirty , but that there should be no new machinery for enforcement since offenders would carry the risk of social and political sanctions , and , of course , if they came within the rubric of any existing legal restraint , such as the Official Secrets Act , they would run the risk of legal proceedings .
23 Is not the timing of that exercise particularly insensitive , and is there any reason why it should not be postponed for a period of , say , a week as a mark of respect to the crew of the Antares , all of whom perished when the vessel was sunk ?
24 b ) the bringing to a conclusion of any proceedings on the Bill which , under this Order , are to be brought to a conclusion after that time shall be postponed for a period equal to the duration of the proceedings on that Motion .
25 ( 4 ) If an allotted day is one to which a Motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 stands over from an earlier day , the bringing to a conclusion of any proceedings on the Bill which under this Order are to be brought to a conclusion on that day shall be postponed for a period equal to the duration of the proceedings on that Motion .
26 We 're having with effect from next Monday to reduce er our service to urgent cases only : accidents , emergency cases , those that need urgent medical care , they will be dealt with , but patients who are awaiting this type cases , for orthopaedics , gynaecology , general surgery er will have to be postponed for a period of about 5 weeks .
27 In any case any pattern of interaction between popular radicalism and revivalism , whether oscillating or of any other kind , could not be discerned in a period bounded by 1815 .
28 They may also be interrupted by a period of unsettled weather — when the winds blow from anywhere at any strength !
29 A gigantic undertaking like the invasion of Europe needed at least a few days of good weather to give it a chance , and we appeared to be settled into a period of wind , rain and low cloud .
30 Elizabethan England could be portrayed as a period before emigration to the American colonies began , before the ruptures between a British and American way of life existed .
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