Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Citing the EC example , he said : ‘ It was Mrs Thatcher who signed the Single European Act , which is the biggest transfer of sovereignty which this government has ever undertaken in any period of our history . ’ |
| 2 | Domestic tourism has also increased within this period . |
| 3 | Olsen has therefore concentrated on four periods when the paintings connect most directly with historic events : from 1797 to 1814 when Napoleon 's Empire imposed a kind of unity on the country ; from the restoration of the monarchy until mid century when historic Romanticism came into conflict with Realism and gradually waned as a moving force in Italian art ; the triumph of Realism in parallel with the rapid progress towards unification from 1849 to 1870 ; and the final period from 1870 until the end of the century when Realism evolved under wider European influences into Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 4 | Finally , the western point , with short laterals , indicates that the island has recently entered into another period of westward extension , though the point is subject to considerable modification from year to year . |
| 5 | She had not gone through that period of nicking things out of her mother 's handbag , her father 's pockets , the way some small children did . |
| 6 | What we are saying there are other emergencies and I get down to the word loneliness now is there any reason why senior citizens should n't have the facility whereby they can make telephone calls if those , they so desire , to members of the family who in many instances they have n't seen for long periods of time ? |
| 7 | Customs have previously included within that period any time taken for communications between the VAT Central Unit at Southend and the trader 's local VAT office . |
| 8 | But it questions whether pollution levels have truly fallen in that period , since the figures are based on companies ' revised interpretations of what they are required to report . |