Example sentences of "[adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Payments of £6 for every period of cold weather will be paid automatically to eligible people as soon as a seven-day period of exceptionally cold weather is forecast by the Met Office or actually occurs . |
| 2 | All major political leaders in India expressed their horror at Gandhi 's assassination and the government immediately declared a seven-day period of state mourning . |
| 3 | — For a seven-day period after Passover the people are to eat unleavened bread as a reminder of the hasty departure from Egypt . |
| 4 | In a laboratory context , the isolation of the respondent during a T 1 — T 2 period of a few hours should remove this effect ; even changes such as sunlight may need to be eliminated . |
| 5 | As in the past , the cost to the union would be high , and an enforced period of recovery and retrenchment would — not for the first time — follow . |
| 6 | From Neolithic Stanydale through the Iron Age with the brochs of Clickhimin and Mousa , and Ness of Burgi fort , to the Viking village at Jarlshof , into the Medieval period through Scalloway and Muness castles and closing with 18th-century Fort Charlotte , these monuments act as signposts through Shetland 's long and colourful past . |
| 7 | It is no doubt an old road , though no older than most , whose importance developed in the medieval period as the main route between Oxford and Banbury . |
| 8 | Equally clay moulds may have been produced by carving in the negative directly onto the clay ; while carving a negative is difficult it was achieved with success at other times , for instance in the medieval period with stone moulds . |
| 9 | We might go on to say that not only in the medieval period with its plainsong , but also today , the Church owes more to the prayer and music of the religious orders than it will ever appreciate . |
| 10 | I do think there are problems and difficulties , I do n't think it will be easy , not least because we do n't have a shared morality and a shared consensus , on the objectives for the voluntary sector , but it is a set of concerns which we must address , er , and I believe that if , if I 've done nothing else today , I 've kicked off a debate , or I 've contributed to a debate which was already rolling , erm , and that we must address those difficulties , and try and find ways through them , because there are opportunities as well as threats in the current situation and I believe we have to look at all of those er , so that we can move into the nineteen nineties which I believe will be a very exciting period for the voluntary sector , and one which the voluntary sector should er , see as exciting , grab the opportunities and move forward . |
| 11 | However , our prayers will be with the Fellowship as you embark on this exciting period of change in the church . |
| 12 | We want our pupils ' time here to be an exciting period of hard work and play , and of discovery about ideas and feelings . |
| 13 | Payback on the investment is on target at four-and-a-half years for the Derwent and an even shorter period for the Victoria . |
| 14 | The court can specify a longer or shorter period for investigation . |
| 15 | Such a clock will wake an individual when a certain stage of the sleep/wake cycle is reached ; if he goes to bed late then that stage will be reached after a shorter period of sleep than usual . |
| 16 | In addition to this decrease in size child bearing is now concentrated into a much shorter period of a woman 's life . |
| 17 | Given this shorter period of experimentation with other drugs prior to heroin use , it could be expected that these informants would have exhibited less variety in their pre-heroin polydrug use . |
| 18 | The nationalities concerned are generally Lutheran ( Estonians and Latvians ) or Roman Catholic ( Lithuanians ) by religion , not Orthodox , and they have been under Soviet rule for a much shorter period of time than most other nationalities , since 1940 rather than the immediate post-revolutionary period ( when communist-led governments were briefly established in all three republics ) . |
| 19 | Normally an application must be served at least fourteen days before the hearing of it , though the court has power to extend or abridge time under s 376 , and under r 7.4(6) the court may hear an application immediately , with or without the attendance of the other party , or authorise a shorter period of service . |
| 20 | Only 4.3% of the subjects in the violent condition could subsequently recall the number on the jersey whereas 27.9% in the non-violent condition were able to despite actually having seen the boy for a shorter period of time . |
| 21 | An operating lease lasts for a much shorter period of time than the economic life of the asset and the lessor retains the risks and rewards of ownership . |
| 22 | This probably reflects the shorter period of monitoring rather than any protective effect of the gastroscopy on cardiac rhythm ( Table II ) . |
| 23 | Therefore this apparent reduction in their rate of occurrence is a reflection of the comparatively shorter period of monitoring during the procedure . |
| 24 | For those seeking to complete only part of the programme an MPhil can be awarded for a shorter period of study . |
| 25 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
| 26 | Now that 's , that 's perfectly valid but if the business actually improves , it takes off , you could have this advantage to , to do it over a shorter period of time , maybe in ten years ' time when business is really |
| 27 | would prefer that too er partly because it would give everybody an opportunity to look at the particular problem er in , in , in , in , in a shorter period of time , erm we are also cheered by the recent visit to England by the minister there Mr who made certain promises , I think it would be useful if Mr who a candidate at the meeting would reiterate his promises publicly today , thank you Chairman . |
| 28 | There clearly was quite an extended period between Eadwine 's marriage to Aethelburh — some time before c . |
| 29 | Movement from the centralities of ‘ real polising ’ in uniform , via the CID , into the marginal fringes of an extended period of drug squad work , had a profound influence on the absolute tenets of policing I had absorbed over the previous decade . |
| 30 | These do not exist in the hops and must be converted from precursor a acids which are present by an extended period of boiling . |