Example sentences of "have [verb] a [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | It is conceivable that Kim had spent a brief period with the CCP at Yenan in the later 1930s . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If children have had a long period without normal feeding experiences they find difficulty in accepting oral food , chewing , and swallowing . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | In the main , staff have to complete a qualifying period of service ( often two or three years ) before they qualify for this . |