Example sentences of "[det] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At some period during his affair the distinctions between the two had become a little blurred in Preston 's mind . |
| 2 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 3 | What I think was true was that the Falklands was not regarded as a front-line issue for some period of time , and indeed the forecast was that it would n't really boil up again until August or thereabouts in 1982 . |
| 4 | Sometimes it was no more than a retaining fee ; sometimes , like a normal feudal holding , it paid the knight for some period of service . |
| 5 | It was expected in Kit 's house that there would be some period of study after supper , most nights at any rate . |
| 6 | For these purposes , a ‘ place of business ’ means some fixed place at which , for some period of time , some part of the company 's business has been carried out . |
| 7 | Price changes ( or returns ) can be viewed as caused by the arrival of information Over some period of time the price change ( or return ) is the sum of a large number of random effects . |
| 8 | In particular , there is no limitation of the remedy by reference to some period of time during which defects will be remedied . |
| 9 | A simple measure of the incidence of death during some period of time is given by the crude death rate ( CDR ) : |
| 10 | We might just as well ask why , when we try to recall visually some period in the past , we find in our memory just the few meagre arbitrarily chosen set of snapshots that we do find there , the faded poor souvenirs of passionate moments . |
| 11 | Legend has it that Mother Shipton of Knaresborough , 1488–1561 , whose real name was Ursula Sonthell , lived in Shiptonthorpe during some period in her life . |
| 12 | The Hospital quickly became unable to cater for all the victims of ill health , disaster and old age , and eligibility became restricted to merchant seamen only if they had served for some period in the Royal Navy . |
| 13 | The FRES estimates that their members might have had about 60,000 temporaries on the payroll at any one time in 1985 ( a figure broadly consistent with the LFS data ) , but that some half a million persons might have worked for an agency for some period in the course of that year ( interview with FRES ) . |
| 14 | But it does not mean that , with some ingenuity , you can not set a detective story , or almost any of its variants and successors , at some period in the past . |
| 15 | Unfortunately there is no direct evidence from this period about his personal relationship with either of his parents . |
| 16 | However , throughout the period November to February flocks of 500 or more are regularly present , and the average of all counts in this period between 1964 and 1976 was over seven hundred . |
| 17 | This discrepancy in trends was greater for the earlier years of this period between 1983 and 1987 ‘ there is no statistically sound evidence that the trends diverge ’ ( Mayhew et al . |
| 18 | In June 1561 , just before the personal rule began , Elizabeth 's ambassador Nicholas Throckmorton warned her that ‘ your realm is in no other case at this day , than all other realms of Christendom are ’ , by which he meant torn by religious controversy and conflict ; in the twentieth century , J. H. Elliott was to characterize this period as the decade of revolution , when Scotland was only one of eight countries including France , Spain , the Netherlands and England which experienced upheaval and revolt . |
| 19 | Sappho 's name also functions in this period as a sign of transgressive female desire . |
| 20 | This may have been the collection that has finally established medium to good pieces of this period as part of the mainstream of serious American furniture collecting . |
| 21 | However , Le Roy Ladurie sees the strikes and uprisings of this period as expressions or frustration rather than campaigns for political change . |
| 22 | There is little legend attached in early times to the name of Theseus ; and his build-up at this period as a companion and analogue of Herakles seems as a propaganda-figure for the Athenian democracy . |
| 23 | The aim here is to give the flavour of the key developments in this period as part of the history of social policy . |
| 24 | When Coenred went to Rome he went in the company of Offa , son of Sigehere and king of the eastern Saxons , who abdicated at the same time ( HE V , 19 ) , and the harmony which appears to have prevailed between Coenred and Offa is another salutary warning not to describe relations between overlords and their royal dependants in this period as one of constant hostility . |
| 25 | Rose and Peters regard this period as one of ‘ treble affluence ’ ; first economic growth was large so that , second , government expenditure could increase without third , reducing through taxation the real wages of individuals . |
| 26 | Teachers are entitled to a reasonable mid-day break , and do not have to supervise pupils during this period as part of their normal duties . |
| 27 | In conditions of rising population , such as we may assume for most of this period over most of Europe , land is scarce and labour plentiful , and the lords may commonly compel land-hungry peasants to accept their terms . |
| 28 | Tixier-Vignancour emerged from this period of enforced reflection with a deep loathing for General de Gaulle and when he returned to politics in 1955 he was one of the architects of the revival of the extreme right , using the popular cause of ‘ Algerie Francaise ’ as a rallying point . |
| 29 | This period of Eliot 's development is often seen as one of increasing narrowing , so that it is useful to emphasize that while it certainly represents a concentration of energy on Christian themes , it also represents a continuing openness to other elements and a drawing on resources whose foundations were laid in Eliot 's studies at Harvard . |
| 30 | ‘ Break up … ‘ ' is about a string of friends I had who were very intense people and at that age , when your friends talk about the slim separation between life and death — and you set that against the fact that this period of your youth is supposed to be the most playful and reckless — well , if you utilized that period in a very intense way , that feeling never really leaves you . ’ |