Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since John wrote , Wrigley and Schofield 's calculation of the consumption — production ratio has pointed to this period before the industrial revolution as having been " very fortunate " in that the age structure meant a smaller dependency burden of non-working children than was to become the case in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 2 | has fallen over this period from seventy eight per cent to twenty eight per cent . |
| 3 | This state of affairs has resulted in long periods of civil war beginning soon after independence . |
| 4 | A biomaterial may also have to function for long periods of time in the body . |
| 5 | The question was one which must often have arisen in this period of extensive rebuilding : Did an altar require to be reconsecrated after it had been moved ? |
| 6 | Many of the most committed Calvinists , who had wrestled for lengthy periods with the doctrine of predestination before finally convincing themselves of the assuredness of their salvation , reacted with fury and outrage to Arminius 's teachings , and in the United Provinces the resulting theological controversy provoked a major political crisis , culminating in the defeat of the Arminians at the Synod of Dort in 1618 . |
| 7 | Whatever benefits were conferred by the phenothiazines , they gave little help to patients who were suffering from excessive mood swings or who had entered into long periods of helpless depression . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Berg worked out his proportions deliberately , by design , in the same way as other composers have done in some periods since the Middle Ages . |
| 10 | Before trying to link the legal model of corporate managerial power to a particular conception of the company a sketch of three conceptions of the company which have vied at different periods for dominance in corporate law doctrine and scholarship will be given . |
| 11 | To investigate our rhythms , some individuals have lived for long periods in underground caves , cut off from sunlight . |