Example sentences of "[adv] a period " in BNC.

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1 The early twentieth century was very much a period of collecting together the data and presenting it en masse , seen at its best in G. Baldwin Brown 's exceptional study of the material of Anglo-Saxon archaeology as a whole The Arts in Early England ( 1903–1937 ) .
2 You can spread the payments over as long a period as you like .
3 The danger for the Government is that it may all come just a bit too late to expunge the memories of our current travails and of too long a period of neglect for the supply-side of the economy to respond .
4 Hahnemann felt that the ‘ single dose and wait ’ philosophy left too long a period of inaction and the speed of cure often too slow as the practitioner could do nothing but wait for the remedy to complete its ' curative curve .
5 Moreover , the committee , to be commended for having conducted its extensive researches and drawn its conclusions within a few months , has the advantage of immediacy over the Clark and Palmer committees , which sat over so long a period , in a rapidly changing environment , that eventually no one who was still able to recall the original brief was sure whether it was still relevant to the prevailing situation .
6 Exposing the board for too long a period will rarely cause any damage , but troublesome problems can be caused by underexposure , when the UV sensitive coating will not have thoroughly reacted to the UV light .
7 After so long a period of remorseless manufacturing decline in the UK , to hope for a reversal might seem wishful thinking .
8 After so long a period of remorseless manufacturing decline in the UK , to hope for a reversal might seem wishful thinking .
9 We were in danger of creating a system which would involve testing over far too long a period of time .
10 At the same time as this was happening teachers demanded to be treated ‘ as professionals ’ , scornfully ignoring the view , repeatedly expressed , that the disruption of children 's education for so long a period was hardly the behaviour that one might expect from members of a ‘ profession ’ .
11 But while a majority of informed public opinion , the target of persistent lobbying over so long a period , moved decisively towards outright abolition , fortified by the anomalous decisions resulting from the 1957 Homicide Act , the views of the general public continued to be hostile and mostly out of sympathy with the prevailing climate at Westminster and Whitehall .
12 How long a period of extended credit should be allowed ?
13 I shared command of the big " V " with two other skippers , Doug Thompson and Denis Mawe , as H.Q. frowned on any policy that kept an officer away from his home port and normal customs duties for too long a period .
14 He writes : Molla Hacihasanzade , who became kazasker for twenty-five years continuously through purposing the turning away and hindering of those capable of achieving renown by directing them to the path of kaza [ kadilik ] and of those who were spoken of as outstanding in excellence among their contemporaries by impeding their passage through the ranks ; and who had by this stratagem , over so long a period , found safety from the crush of those ulema who , by right of learning and excellence , might have passed through the ranks and become rivals to him …
15 Lord Pearce said , ‘ The only reasonable inference from the regular course of dealing over so long a period is that the buyers were evincing an acceptance of , and a readiness to be bound by , the printed conditions of whose existence they were well aware although they had not troubled to read them . ’
16 This austere doctrine meant for Frederick a lifetime of toil and effort : no monarch in the history of Europe has worked so hard over so long a period to meet obligations which were essentially self-imposed .
17 No matter for how long a period lifers are detained , the Home Secretary will release those people only if he considers that it is safe to do so .
18 And over how long a period should the migration be taken .
19 It is possible to start with 1.2A after 1.1Z , but this is symptomatic of too long a period between approvals .
20 The so-called ‘ age of reptiles ’ was merely a period when there were more reptiles than mammals because the earth had enjoyed uniformly hot conditions .
21 Whilst the agreements typically laid down a period of discussion between management and union representatives prior to the introduction of change , there were weaknesses in the terms dealing with provision of information , and early union involvement in decision making , which would have to be altered for effective union influence on the process of change .
22 Following this we have the long period of isostatic emergence , rapid weathering of the new mountains with the formation of molasse-type deposits , widespread red bed sedimentation and also perhaps a period of glaciation , before peneplanation , widespread marine transgressions and the recommencement of the cycle in new troughs .
23 It needs time to regain its normal elasticity and reduce in size so a period of loose stools is often desirable .
24 This deep-rooted process of change can now be brought to bear on the ‘ official ’ health system as the signing of the peace agreements between the government and the FMLN has ushered in a period of more open political struggle and has created new political spaces .
25 This recommendation ushered in a period of campaigning for and against the change .
26 In 1937 , a series of mass demonstrations in the oil industry had ushered in a period of severe labour unrest throughout the West Indies and this had led to the setting up of a Royal Commission , under Lord Moyne , to assess the social conditions on the islands .
27 It ushered in a period of expansion over the 1950s , 1960s and 1970s the like of which the world had rarely seen .
28 The eighteenth century was thus a period of slow evolution rather than radical change in military affairs .
29 Of the sixty-six British envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary during the same period forty-seven can be classed as aristocrats ; while of the sixty-four French ambassadors and ministers who served in 1814 – 30 ( admittedly a period when aristocratic influences were untypically strong in France ) only ten were non-noble .
30 Indeed , in insurance the eighteenth century was generally a period of establishment rather than of rapid growth .
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