Example sentences of "to a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , in this latter case a casual and a short-term contract worker are in many ways indistinguishable , since , as we have seen in Chapter 1 , it is only after four weeks employment that a worker is entitled to a minimum period of notice . |
| 2 | It was the end to a protracted period of trauma and uncertainty for the management and employees of the company , which had begun at the beginning of the year when the rumours that Gardner Merchant was for sale had begun to circulate . |
| 3 | To emphasise his authority the unforgiving Rangers boss exposed Roberts to a humiliating period as a reserve team substitute . |
| 4 | The Pier Head incident proved to be the turning point which led to a new period of industrial peace within the giant Vehicle Division , unfortunately too late to avoid the massive investment switch to the Continent which was already under way with the newly approved corporate plan . |
| 5 | It seems very doubtful whether the required amount of water ever falls in present conditions and many authorities have attributed such erosion to a wetter period during the Pleistocene . |
| 6 | King Edward VII and his Consort , Alexandra , were able to influence international events , particularly in Europe , which continued to be the predominant continent and Britain looked forward to a long period of peaceful influence . |
| 7 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |
| 8 | It was to lead to a long period of self-confessed misery for her , including beatings by her tranquilliser-addicted mother and spells of being locked naked with her sister in cupboards . |
| 9 | With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence . |
| 10 | But if we turn to consider the [ … ] supply price with reference to a long period of time , we shall find that it is governed by a different set of causes , and with different results . |
| 11 | The West had now to adapt itself to a lengthy period of Cold War competition with the USSR rather than prepare for an imminent crisis . |
| 12 | Here we see an illustration of the almost universal law that the term Normal being taken to refer to a short period of time an increase in the amount demanded raises the normal supply price . [ … ] |
| 13 | Second Division leaders Rovers roared into action on the resumption , subjecting the Saints defence to a 10-minute period of intense pressure on their try line , but to no avail . |
| 14 | By s. 10 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 the court has the power to make a disqualification order against the person concerned , up to a maximum period of 15 years . |
| 15 | In serious cases , consideration should be given to a brief period of suspension while the case is investigated and this suspension should be with pay . |
| 16 | His argument was that Tacitus had chosen the wrong period and provided bad examples for princes , whereas Polybius introduced the modern politicians to a noble period of ancient history . |
| 17 | It is owing to the fact that Christianity is a historical religion , having a necessary reference to a past period of human history , that such a discussion needs to proceed . |
| 18 | In Britain it was too good to last , but the slogan led to a disastrous period of false optimism . |
| 19 | But in Russia the masses refused to do so , refused to resign themselves to an indefinite period of subjection to capitalist exploitation . |
| 20 | It was superbly performed and I found it enjoyable , although it did seem to hark back to an earlier period of American modern dance . |
| 21 | In academic writings it is probably more common to look to an earlier period as the time when family solidarity was of prime importance . |
| 22 | Regression is a trip in time , in the mind , to an earlier period in life . |
| 23 | We could find no cause for this when I regressed him to an earlier period in this life and so I went on to regress him to what appeared to be a previous life . |
| 24 | Why on earth they should subject the whole world to an experimental period for some of the laws is beyond me . |
| 25 | All this is important because it meant that by the end of the 1930s British town planning was in a stronger position than would have been thought likely , to respond to the national emergency of physical destruction , which led to an unprecedented period of planned rebuilding . |