Example sentences of "have [verb] a period [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dennis had experienced a period of unemployment , and this , he admitted , had made him much more sympathetic to social-security claimants and even to strikers . |
| 3 | By the end of 1990 it was generally accepted that the economy had entered a period of recession , although there remained significant differences over the depth and the likely duration of the downturn . |
| 4 | Already about 1580 , when Marenzio was bringing out his earliest madrigals , secular vocal music had entered a period of crisis . |
| 5 | In a statement before he left on Nov. 3 , Bérégovoy was quoted as saying that the two countries had overcome a period of strain and had agreed to give a new impetus to their partnership . |
| 6 | Please to remember I had finished my own stint , and I had served a period on Bennett 's staff as his " horse-thief " — the recruiter and trainer , I was the Group training inspector . |
| 7 | Inevitably , composers have been quick to exploit percussion possibilities , and if anything we have suffered a period of over-use . |
| 8 | The majority are employed , but about a fifth have suffered a period of unemployment in the past . |
| 9 | Indeed , in order to develop properly , brine shrimp eggs have to undergo a period of desiccation . |
| 10 | The revolutions in Eastern Europe have paved the way for the dismantling of state socialist systems and have initiated a period of transition towards the re-establishment of a market economy . |