Example sentences of "and [prep] a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These relationships assume great importance and for a period of time they are probably the most significant ones we have . |
| 2 | Enormous growth in this business occurred through the substitution phase and for a period of some years the business was extremely profitable . |
| 3 | And for a period of centuries it was under the joint rule of Bern and Fribourg . |
| 4 | His education included a year at Eton ; and for a period of seven years from 1740 to 1746 he lived in Italy , where at the beginning of his stay he met and formed a close and lasting friendship with Horace Walpole [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | Richard escaped the siege of Bytham and for a period of a week or two in February 1221 in the forest of Cliff , Northamptonshire , he held off a royal army . |
| 6 | The minimum working age must be set at 16 years , and those over this age shall receive fair remuneration , and for a period of two years shall be entitled to vocational training in working hours . |
| 7 | In fact a gold standard operated in the international economy prior to 1914 and for a period after the First World War . |
| 8 | He was a South African like Albert , but eventually settled in England and after a period at York City became a postman . |
| 9 | Her husband began to complain of headaches and lethargy and after a period of investigation in hospital it was discovered that he had a malignant cerebral tumour . |
| 10 | Sexual relations between the newcomer and the old man 's daughters are not resented , and after a period of mutual co-existence the young male leads the daughters into a separate existence as a new harem . |
| 11 | But they do at least survive , and after a period of time will be able to regrow their tails . |
| 12 | Historically , the minimum subscription Association 's affiliated organizations and clubs has been set that twice the personal member 's subscription and after a period of two years ' grace it 's the Council 's wish that this balance is re-established so that the relativity returns to that which existed prior to the increase in subscriptions that was proposed at the A G M in nineteen ninety one . |
| 13 | Chairman the , the mechanism is well practised and widely known it starts with the draft two two B in the January the Committee and after a period of about five to six months ' consultation within which the board programme of work of all capitalists are listed and put out to the community for response through their elected organization as to acceptability , five points of detail who were at relatively hirer one man to speak |
| 14 | They left the foster mother 's home on 19 June , and after a period in a children 's home they have been placed with different foster parents . |
| 15 | The everyday lives of ordinary people are not the basis for good television unless the characters and events are portrayed in a consistently entertaining fashion , and over a period of time ; hence the great success of television soap operas . |
| 16 | According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies . |
| 17 | This does not add much to the cost of the order , and over a period of time the extra components build up into a useful stock of parts . |
| 18 | The masculine energy is made available , and over a period of time the woman can crystallize that energy into a bond that will hold fast . |
| 19 | The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving . |
| 20 | A programme of restoration back to full working order followed and over a period of 18 months , it was stripped , restored and rebuilt to its present immaculate condition . |
| 21 | In both cases you have to find a deposit , and over a period of time pay off what is , in effect , a loan . |
| 22 | The place was besieged , and over a period of months , including a winter , the English grip tightened . |
| 23 | Also studied were the consistency of performance of individuals within and between topics , between mode of assessment and over a period of time . |
| 24 | In Woodrow , it was held that affray is a continuing offence , so that where an indictment charged the defendants with a single offence and particularised several incidents that had occurred at different places and over a period of several hours , the indictment was not bad for duplicity . |
| 25 | This stage is followed by a search for means to implement the desired change and over a period of time a cycle of problems are handled by this method . |
| 26 | Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective . |