Example sentences of "[conj] for a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | That tribunal said that to force an applicant to state whether he intends to live here forever , or for a period of not less than six months , invites deceit and was somewhat removed from reality . |
| 2 | It is , of course , the Joyce of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses who attracted the nouveaux romanciers rather than Finnegans Wake , whose verbal and linguistic inventiveness did not receive many enthusiasts , except for a period during the 1970s when both Robbe-Grillet and Simon were influenced by the theories of Jean Ricardou , who stressed the productive nature of work on language in order to counter representation . |
| 3 | When the Constituent Assembly was dissolved after the 1917 Revolution , and the Bolsheviks ' Land Decree had stolen the main plank of the Socialist Revolutionaries ' platform , Siberian and Black-Earth peasants alike failed to give any further support to their still loyal party , despite the fact that for a period an SR-dominated Directory prevailed in eastern Russia . |
| 4 | He had contacted UNIT HQ and had confirmed that for a period in the 1970s and 1980s there had been a scientific advisor to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart . |
| 5 | The usual formula is that for a period of time ending on the expiry of the initial period the parties will attempt to renegotiate the prices to apply for a further fixed period . |
| 6 | The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving . |
| 7 | If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned . |
| 8 | These relationships assume great importance and for a period of time they are probably the most significant ones we have . |
| 9 | Enormous growth in this business occurred through the substitution phase and for a period of some years the business was extremely profitable . |
| 10 | In fact a gold standard operated in the international economy prior to 1914 and for a period after the First World War . |
| 11 | Nevertheless drawings by him still lined the hall which led into the bar , and for a period a mural by Minton , with some assistance from others , hung in the dining-room where visitors could dine simply or expensively , eating plates of goulash or a champagne supper , seated at scrubbed oak tables and benches . |
| 12 | Sir Colin Anderson , patron , collector and for a period Chairman of the Tate Gallery 's trustees , visited this exhibition and noted ‘ flop ’ beside the catalogue entry for Minton 's work . |
| 13 | Avery sat to Minton for a couple of portraits and for a period saw him about once a fortnight . |
| 14 | The rate of economic growth in Britain slowed down and for a period was in absolute decline . |
| 15 | And for a period of centuries it was under the joint rule of Bern and Fribourg . |
| 16 | of the currant bun is down five P and for a period so is the price of the Mirror newspaper . |
| 17 | His education included a year at Eton ; and for a period of seven years from 1740 to 1746 he lived in Italy , where at the beginning of his stay he met and formed a close and lasting friendship with Horace Walpole [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | Richard escaped the siege of Bytham and for a period of a week or two in February 1221 in the forest of Cliff , Northamptonshire , he held off a royal army . |
| 19 | The central courtyard , built originally for coaches and horses , was roofed over , and for a period the ballroom doubled as a volleyball court . |
| 20 | The minimum working age must be set at 16 years , and those over this age shall receive fair remuneration , and for a period of two years shall be entitled to vocational training in working hours . |
| 21 | The polytechnics led the way when for a period they had the advantage of the professionalism of graphic designers within their institutions , sometimes even within their libraries . |
| 22 | As far back as can be traced it has been a village of yeomen , small independent farmers , and never since medieval times an estate village ruled by one big landowner , though for a period in the 18th and 19th centuries the Grimston family of Kilnwick and later the Hothams of South Dalton acquired some farms . |