Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] [adj] period " in BNC.
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1 | Nearly four years have passed since The Satanic Verses was declared blasphemous by the late Ayatollah Khomeini , and during this long period of internal exile there must have been times when Rushdie , experiencing deep changes and wrenches in the soul , has wondered at the prescience of those words . |
2 | Where a user makes a specific request to exercise their statutory right for an eyesight examination by an ophthalmic optician , either as an alternative to or in addition to the voluntary screening programme , then the request should be accommodated and during this interim period the user permitted to use an ophthalmic optician of their choice . |
3 | In communities especially , and after some transitional period in the factories as well . |
4 | The extent of the surrender varies from one person to another , and the assumptions about the claim to privacy also vary — not only from one person to another within a given group or society , but from one society to another and from one historical period to another . |
5 | Over the entire period , there were twenty-two cases of under-25 leukaemia , when only eleven would be expected , and in one critical period — from 1964 to 1978 — there had been fifteen cases where six would have been normal . |
6 | And around this same period , an Englishman reading in the public library at Bagnères came upon an account of the battle of Toulouse in the Napoleonic wars which he thought too favourable to the French , and annotated it accordingly in the interests of accuracy . |