Example sentences of "[prep] [art] period " in BNC.
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1 | British lagers are rarely stored ( from the German word ‘ lagered ’ ) for the period needed to develop taste . |
2 | LVMH added £30m to the £246m pre-tax profits Guinness announced yesterday for the period to 30 June , when only a 16 per cent stake was accounted for . |
3 | Schools have shown increasing interest in it , helped by such excellent organisations as the Institute for Contemporary British History , but there is limited room in the curriculum for the twentieth century , let alone for the period from when the text books end and memory begins . |
4 | Sales for the period to 30 June were slightly higher at £5.2m against £5.08m in the comparable period . |
5 | Compared to the situation just after the introduction of internment in the early 1970s , community relations are said to have improved considerably , which is true even for the period since neighbourhood foot patrols were first introduced following the hunger strikes of 1981 . |
6 | Remember to use the contribution rates and earnings limits current at the date of payment , even though these may not be the same as those for the period the payment covers . |
7 | One careful observer , a British Quaker , gave a figure of 800,000 for the period between 1 July 1921 and April 1922 . |
8 | Thus for the period after ‘ the origin ’ Engels returns to Marxist orthodoxy : ‘ Here we shall need Marx 's Capital as much as Morgan 's book . ’ |
9 | If you rent your TV and video you can save money by suspending or even cancelling your contract for the period you are away . |
10 | Basically , it 's all part of promotion for the period that you 're filming and promoting . |
11 | Another variant is the shorthold tenancy , created by the Housing Act 1980 , whereby the lessor and lessee agree to a fixed-term letting of a period not less than one and not more than five years certain , carrying with it automatic security of tenure for the period agreed . |
12 | The worst of these is for the period corresponding to the British Early Iron Age ( c.800–400 BC ) . |
13 | But surface analysis by X-ray fluorescence ( see glossary ) shows that one is a leaded tin bronze , quite appropriate for the period , whereas the other is of brass , the alloy of copper and zinc , which did not become common until the Roman period over five hundred years later . |
14 | And in the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten , by far the largest ‘ bourgeois ’ newspaper in the Munich area but also with much wider circulation , the 44 per cent of May and June 1940 had dropped by June and July 1941 to 29 per cent , reached 15 per cent for the period October to December 1941 , and sank to only 7 per cent by October and November 1942 . |
15 | In the case of the Hannibalic War as many as fifty-four hoards have been found , compared with eighteen for the next whole half-century ; in the case of the Civil War there are ninety-eight , compared with twenty-four for the period 1625–41 and nine for 1649–60 . |
16 | ‘ Absence from the UK for the period 5 to 10 April could be a first step to establish non-residence in 1992–93 , ’ it adds . |
17 | Director Adrian Noble shows us more of what has become his history-play trademark established with his Plantagenets trilogy : a sense of stylish organisation , a feel for the period , and a cinematic sweep of events . |
18 | On the negative side and however ‘ normal ’ for the period , we must remember that Charles was responsible for a number of massacres during his campaigns ; in 782 at Verden , he ordered the slaughter of no less than 4,500 unarmed prisoners . |
19 | For the period 1992 to 1995 the research budget will be SFr2100m ( £1 = SFr 2.54 ) compared with SFr1200m spent in the past four years . |
20 | Because we believe in stable democratic government supported by a majority of the British people , we shall not only campaign wholeheartedly for fair votes in the coming weeks , we also make a pledge for the period after the election . |
21 | Officially the lift ceased to operate in November 1910 and this is also recorded in a traffic return for the period . |
22 | The only figures available for the volume of traffic using the Foxton Lift are contained in the returns of the Grand Junction Canal Co. for the period 1905–1929 ( held at the Waterways Museum , Stoke Bruerne ) . |
23 | For the period from 1975–82 , the annual rate of population increase was 2.9 for Africa , 1.4 for East Asia , 2.2 for South Asia , 1.5 for Oceania and 2.5 for Latin America . |
24 | 1.1 The National Curriculum English Working Group was set up on 29 April 1988 by the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales to advise on attainment targets , programmes of study , and associated assessment arrangements for English in the National Curriculum for the period of compulsory schooling . |
25 | For the period , a remarkable sense of town planning is shown here with the main square , the Malostranské náměstí or Lesser Town Square in the centre and , running from it to the castle , the wide Nerudova Street , and Mostecká , leading to Charles Bridge and Letenská . |
26 | They should be based on a realistic assessment of expenditure requirements , for the period to which they apply , neither too high nor too low . |
27 | The Sillito story had a strange sequel , however , as can be read in a file of signals traffic for the period . |
28 | As for the period of daylight , a simple sundial on an obelisk of Seti I , about 1300 BC , indicates ten hours between sunrise and sunset , to which two more were added for morning and evening twilight . |
29 | Bede not only compiled a detailed account of this important Synod but in another of his treatises , De temporum ratione ( ‘ On the Reckoning of Time ’ ) , written in 725 and generally regarded as his scientific masterpiece , he computed Easter tables for the period 532 to 1063 and also made a first attempt at a general chronology of the world down to the reign of the contemporary Byzantine emperor , Leo the Isaurian . |
30 | Instead I found no entries at all for the period from March to the end of that year . |