Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This has created a long period of uncertainty , but in fact it now appears that they do not grant core funding ( and inside information indicates that the NCC element is the dominant one ) .
2 The reader will probably object that a hideous primal trauma of parricide and rape is all very well for purposes of explaining the subsequent guilt and neurotic inhibitions of the perpetrators of these ghastly crimes , but can hardly hope to explain how they succeeded in transmitting their new-found superegos to their children , and certainly will not explain how , when all the primal fathers were gone ( a process which may have taken a considerable period of time admittedly , but which must have happened eventually ) , when there were no more primal parricides to be procured , human societies could still construct their civilization on the acquisition of the superego .
3 Even if he had got the kind of constitution that he wanted , could he have stomached the long period of economic rebuilding — with all its attendant constraints — that lay ahead of France in 1946 ?
4 Although the sentences were to run consecutively , the court was reported to have reduced the total period of imprisonment by two years as a gesture of goodwill .
5 In relation to PC Cherry , who had to wait the same period before being summonsed , Lord Justice Watkins said the delay after April 1987 , when there was ample evidence to sustain a prima facie case against him , was ‘ undoubtedly extreme ’ .
6 This school had enjoyed a brief period of success and national distinction in the first decade of the sixteenth century under the Mastership of John Stanbridge , who was well known when he migrated north from Oxford and whose Grammar was prescribed in the statutes of Manchester Grammar School .
7 The meeting was timely because Hamish Kidd , a Cambridge chemical engineer who had spent a long period in general management consultancy with P-E Consulting Group , had developed systems to introduce executive search into P-E when it was sanctioned as an allowable technique by the Management Consultants Association ( MCA ) .
8 It is conceivable that Kim had spent a brief period with the CCP at Yenan in the later 1930s .
9 On May 16 the Collective State Presidency issued a warning clearly directed at Slovenia and Croatia that a " serious breakdown of the system established by the Constitution " and " disregard for existing federal laws " meant that Yugoslavia had entered a critical period of instability .
10 There is nothing at all romantic about this sympathy for the underdog : as a midshipman , we are told , Aubrey had been disrated for an unsavoury escapade and had served a long period on the lower deck , an experience which he never forgot .
11 The last few years have witnessed an unprecedented period of economic depression for Wales accompanied by massive youth unemployment .
12 I have to avoid the last period on the second Friday in October , which is when the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist celebrates ‘ the rich goodness of God 's vegetables ’ .
13 If children have had a long period without normal feeding experiences they find difficulty in accepting oral food , chewing , and swallowing .
14 Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ We have had a long period of success under a lot of good coaches and we are confident John can do a great job for us . ’
15 In the main , staff have to complete a qualifying period of service ( often two or three years ) before they qualify for this .
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