Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | These immunoassays have shown increased sensitivity to anti-HCV in chronic hepatitis C and have shortened the period between infection and the detection of anti-HCV by four to five weeks when compared with the first generation assays . |
| 2 | The last five years have spanned the period from the publication of the consultative paper on advanced courses to the completion of the transition timetable by which all courses were transferred into the new modular system . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It appears that the Gulf War has had little effect on exports to this area , although it should be added that much of the conflict post dated the period covered by the survey . |
| 5 | He considered the biographer had entirely misunderstood the period and wanted to know my reasons for doing the book and my qualifications for attempting it . |
| 6 | The Paasche index is more expensive to compute than the Laspeyres index because the weights need to be re-estimated every period . |
| 7 | This patient has suffered a period of acute hypoxia . |
| 8 | Inevitably , composers have been quick to exploit percussion possibilities , and if anything we have suffered a period of over-use . |
| 9 | The majority are employed , but about a fifth have suffered a period of unemployment in the past . |
| 10 | It was true that she had missed a period , but that could mean anything or nothing . |
| 11 | Moreover , there has been little recent research on what befalls older manual workers following redundancy , although the labour market has undergone a period of rapid change over the last few years ( one recent exception is Bytheway 1987 ) . |
| 12 | The universe would have then undergone a period of rapid expansion , as in the inflationary models . |
| 13 | Water and Ventilation has recently undergone a period of consolidation and the branch structure has been altered in order to meet our needs for 1992 , this is already bearing fruit as the most recent quarter produced some great sales . |
| 14 | He had endured a period in an animation studio , frustrated by being directed what to draw . |
| 15 | For us it was when we finally got a period that we learned about it . |
| 16 | I try to work out if she 's got a period due or if she 's been having trouble with her mother . |
| 17 | Then she said , ‘ You 've got a period ? ’ |
| 18 | She has never had a period ; at eleven she was diagnosed as anorexic and hospitalised for ten weeks . |
| 19 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 20 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
| 21 | By this time I was 5ft 7in , weighed six stone , was covered in boils , had a mouthful of ulcers and had n't had a period for four months . |
| 22 | I have n't had a period since November 1991 . |
| 23 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |
| 24 | Erm that period has also had a period of growth within it , and I feel that 's a reasonable basis to go forward on . |
| 25 | Well she 's had a period now . |
| 26 | Next week I shall be talking with Graham Mayhew , who has recently completed a period in office as Mayor of Lewes . |
| 27 | Extract from a letter received from an ex-member of the Womens Royal Air Force after a period of convalescence at Richard Peck House ‘ It was my good fortune to be given a period of convalescence at Richard Peck House after major surgery . |
| 28 | The children are given a period of time , possibly sixty seconds , to look at the items . |
| 29 | This is called the period of the ‘ oral tradition ’ . |
| 30 | The basic conventions for the four most common punctuation marks are : The FULL STOP ( also called a PERIOD or FULL POINT ) Put a full stop ( . ) |