Example sentences of "period [prep] [det] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leases may be granted for short periods of less than a year , up to 999 years . |
| 2 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 3 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 4 | The whole museum has been built by one man , our membership secretary , Philip Field , over a period of more than a decade . |
| 5 | 4.1 the Rent payable without any deduction by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days in every year and proportionately for any period of less than a year the first such payment being a proportionate sum in respect of the period from and including the Rent Commencement Date to and including the day before the quarter day next after the Rent Commencement Date to be paid on the date of this Lease and |
| 6 | Further , the minimum amount on which interest must be paid when held for any period of less than a week , if it is fair and reasonable to do so , has been increased from £10,000 to £20,000 . |