Example sentences of "during a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Metropolitan Police study conducted during a three-month period in 1979 found that 0.4 per cent of detainees were held for seventy-two hours or more . |
| 2 | Homosexuality between consenting adults aged 21 or over , and abortion during a certain period of pregnancy , are not criminal offences at present , although they have been in the past . |
| 3 | Full employment Gross domestic product is a measure of the money value of the goods and services produced in the economy during a certain period of time . |
| 4 | The usual system is for the client to say how much he will spend as a working budget during a certain period of time . |
| 5 | An early version of the alternative doctrine polygeny , according to which the global category consists of a set of quite separate races of quite distinct historical origin and wholly different psychological attributes was advanced by Paracelsus in 1520 , but of much greater significance for the history of anthropology is the fact that , during a critical period between 1 850 and 1 870 , polygeny was the dominant orthodoxy in scientific circles throughout Europe and America . |
| 6 | During a five-week period in Lent he gave 19 concerts , some at the homes of aristocrats such as Count Johann Esterházy and the Russian Ambassador , Prince Golitsin , and some privately organized by himself . |
| 7 | The former Clipstone Colliery linesman had his progress impeded by a string of top-class seamers during a frustrating period on the Nottinghamshire staff , and considered quitting the game before Ken Higgs recruited him for Leicestershire in 1990 . |
| 8 | Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change . |
| 9 | It is fortunately in the hands of such a man as Captain Vidal , R.N. , who has steadily devoted himself , during a long period of ill-health , to complete this unpopular work , and to connect with it a minute examination of the Canary Islands . ’ |
| 10 | Many of the submerged banks and the bottoms of the lagoons of the atolls seem to be at a remarkably uniform depth , as one would expect if they represent an important phase of planation during a long period of preglacial stability . |
| 11 | Throughout her marriage , and during a long period as a single parent , she was a journalist , editing magazines such as Honey , Over 21 , and Working Woman , as well as being Woman 's Page Editor on the Sunday Times and The Independent . |
| 12 | Count Mandred , the acclaimed defeater of the Skaven , was elected Emperor and his respected generalship and charismatic personality held the Empire together during a vulnerable period of recovery . |
| 13 | According to US figures on June 7 , up to 6,700 Iraqi refugees , mostly children under five , had died during a two-month period in mountain camps along the Turkish border . |
| 14 | Four child patients had died and nine others suffered mysterious heart attacks or respiratory failures during a two-month period in 1991 when Allitt had been a nurse at the hospital . |
| 15 | Patients received a mean of 1.2 U of packed red blood cells ( SD=2 ) and they were in hospital during a mean period of 7.4 days ( SD=3.6 ) ( Tables II and III ) . |
| 16 | But according to a report by an observer from the US National Marine Fisheries Service , during a 6-week period in summer 1986 , a single Japanese squid vessel working in Alaskan waters killed 53 dolphins and porpoises and 14 fur seals by entanglement in its nets . |
| 17 | During a tricky period in the late '70s , Manager Bernie Rhodes tried to replace Mick Jones with Steve Jones from The Sex Pistols . |
| 18 | Second , a study of problem drug users known to eight agencies in the South Tyneside area during a six-month period in 1981 ( Pattison et al .1982 ) produced an estimated annual prevalence rate of 1.2 known opioid users per 1,000 of the adult population , compared to about 5 per 1,000 in Wirral . |
| 19 | As in the preparasitic stage , growth of the larva during parasitic development is interrupted by two moults , each of these occurring during a short period of lethargus . |
| 20 | Gross domestic product measures the value of all final goods and services produced during a particular period of time in the UK . |
| 21 | Economic income is simply the maximum amount of real income that can be consumed out of real wealth during a given period without impairing the ability of that stock of real wealth to deliver real income and hence real consumption in the future . |
| 22 | All move about in huge foraging columns , but each species is active during a different period of the day or night an so they share out their environment over time . |
| 23 | The teacher 's relation with a child is much more intense and long-lasting than for a teacher of a normal child , since they will be together in close contact during a longer period of growth . |
| 24 | There is an average number of accesses during a specified period of about sixty-five . |
| 25 | He could also have taken into account , if he was aware of it , that the effect of requiring an undertaking in damages from the council would be to cause the collapse of the law enforcement process in this area of law ; and further that the enforcement of the law was not merely desirable as such in the public interest , but that small retailers could well suffer if large retailers such as Wickes were able to continue to trade with impunity during a significant period in contravention of what might well prove to be a perfectly valid law . |