Example sentences of "[verb] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the 20 years from the mid-fifties provided a period of only marginal differences in programmes both from election to election and between the parties . |
| 2 | We will obviously need a period of consultation in government before we introduce legislation . |
| 3 | You 'll need a period of convalescence . |
| 4 | Alfonso entered a period of personal success which nearly eclipsed El Cid for some two years . |
| 5 | From about 1860 the European agricultural sector entered a period of crisis in which the baleful influence of the backward Prussian agricultural system and its links with the politics of the Prussian east were made abundantly clear : the mechanisms which the Junkers managed to hide from the German populace were at last revealed . |
| 6 | Their social position also appeared to suffer a decline as education entered a period of crisis . |
| 7 | The ‘ Golden Age ’ of English agriculture was over ; after the 1860s it entered a period of decline from which it was not to recover until the Second World War . |
| 8 | The gap was re-opened with a vengeance by events after 1978 , when ‘ the North-South divide ’ entered a period of widening on most economic and political measures . |
| 9 | The Yugoslav federation entered a period of severe political crisis in mid-March , following the violent suppression on March 9 of an anti-communist demonstration in Belgrade , the federal capital and capital of Serbia , largest and most influential of the six republics in the federation . |
| 10 | With the election of the former UDF leader , Zhelev , as President in August 1990 and the formation of a coalition government headed by a non-party political Prime Minister ( Dimitur Popov ) in December [ see p. 37923 ] , Bulgarian domestic politics entered a period of relative stability . |
| 11 | The process of European integration entered a period of stagnation which lasted until the European Monetary System [ EMS ] came into being in March 1979 . |
| 12 | The Hillsborough disaster seemed to encourage a period of self-reflection and greater public sympathy for the beleaguered game of soccer . |
| 13 | The present publication , Venetian Glass 1890–1990 , covers a period which Rosa Mentasti has made particularly her own . |
| 14 | This book covers a period of some two hundred years . |
| 15 | This chapter examines two aspects of organizational planning : the corporate plan , which usually covers a period of three to live years ; and the annual budget , which looks at one year of that plan in much greater detail . |
| 16 | Yet the warrant will be granted for two months — which may well include a period of time running after the demonstration in question has taken place . |
| 17 | Articles which are available in commerce or industry may well include a period in private practice . |
| 18 | Sometimes a party will win a period of office outright ; more commonly perhaps two or more parties will share power . |
| 19 | The original draft Section 50 proposed a period of 9 years from the commencement of the housing development in which the Regional Council would have an option to acquire the school site . |
| 20 | The fact that a child is weaned early ( or undergoes a period of separation , or has minimal brain damage , or loses a parent through death ) will not by itself tell one about the eventual outcome . |
| 21 | But behind this there lies a period , obscurely documented , in which there was far greater freedom and equality among the cities — an era brought to a sharp end by the threat of foreign conquest , which drew the Greek cities together in heroic resistance to the Persian invaders — and thus began the process which ended in the effective dominance of Sparta and Athens over their neighbours . |
| 22 | of ideological progression , maybe he thought that , that , that erm the only , ultimately the only way to capitalis er to communism was through capitalism and he needs to establish a period of capitalism first . |
| 23 | Having done this , you can begin by making sure that she is not left alone at all at first in her emotionally collapsed condition , unless she clearly indicates that she wants a period of solitude . |
| 24 | A preferred bidder will emerge from this stage and it is normal to grant a period of exclusivity during which due diligence procedures can be carried out . |
| 25 | Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment . |
| 26 | Measures of magnitude , duration , and extent of oesophageal distention — Occurrence of a pattern of intraoesophageal pressure oscillation identical to that of intragastric pressure during a common cavity episode was taken to indicate a period of communication between the lumina of the esophageal body and stomach . |
| 27 | Reports earlier in the month suggested that the government had already planned to impose a period of martial law . |
| 28 | Even wine prices , having enjoyed a period of stability in the Eighties , are beginning to rise as an expanding band of consumers chases after a limited pot of quality wine . |
| 29 | But her desire to provide a period of stability for nearly one million people employed by the NHS is coupled with a fierce determination to maintain the momentum of reform , with the overwhelming majority of hospitals becoming self-governing trusts by the mid-1990s . |
| 30 | The course at No. 1 Parachute Training School at Ringway involved a period of initial practice on a variety of ground-training apparatus . |