Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time period " in BNC.
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| 1 | This implies splitting up the data for each time period ( each day , say ) , into that relating to the individual outstanding futures contracts . |
| 2 | The receipts and payments method is commonly employed for shorter time periods , say up to one month . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , the actual components and manufacturing skills required are accessible to humans of this time period , but the concept and design are much further advanced . |
| 4 | Prospective collection of data on general practitioners ' referrals to specialist outpatient clinics between June 1990 and March 1992 and detailed comparison of two time periods : October 1990 to March 1991 ( phase 1 ) and October 1991 to March 1992 ( phase 2 ) . |
| 5 | They noticed that background radiation in the laboratory appeared to rise by up to 50 per cent while the experiment was running but they had no means of knowing whether or not this had anything to do with the experiment as the natural background radiation from cosmic rays can vary substantially during long time periods . |
| 6 | The TSS involved similar techniques to those described above but they were more aggressively applied with specific time periods between each operation . |
| 7 | So training must take place with this time period in mind . |
| 8 | Secondly , it means that the person who has been arrested under section 7(3) of the Act of 1976 by a constable without warrant has the matter resolved one way or the other within 24 hours , or sooner if practicable , subject to the exceptions of Christmas Day , Good Friday and Sundays , and the prosecution , if they wish a remand in custody or the imposition of more stringent conditions , must make sure that they have within that time period sufficient material to place before the justice to enable the justice to form one of the opinions set out in section 7(5) . |
| 9 | A new , precoded , form was completed for each new activity undertaken ; the research instrument therefore differed from the more conventional diary approach in which the work done in specific time periods is recorded ( Mintzberg , 1973 ; Stewart , 1988 ) . |
| 10 | Their results purport to show that , in different time periods and in different countries , changes in the money stock precede changes in money incomes and prices . |
| 11 | ‘ Most of the er , dastardly Huns , I think you call them in this time period , seem to be up by the door to the General 's office which , according to Benny , is also a quicker route out . |
| 12 | It is possible , for example , that a large proportion of loans are for the most recently deposited theses ; alternatively , it could be that some theses are more often requested than others , and that loan records for such theses would be found within different time periods . |
| 13 | The derivation of a no-arbitrage condition relies on the use of the capital market to move the cash flows arising from the arbitrage transaction through time so that they are non-zero in all time periods , and positive at least once . |
| 14 | If a record that is updated or accessed frequently in one time period is likely not to be referenced at all in the next , any analysis breaks down and the equal access assumption is the best guide for design decisions . |
| 15 | Assuming that the Phillips curve is stable over time ( that is , it does not shift its position from one time period to another ) , we-could say that a lower unemployment percentage could be achieved at the cost of a higher rate of inflation . |
| 16 | Further studies in the 1960s tended to confirm Phillips 's findings , though there was also some evidence that the Phillips curve was not completely stable but tended to shift its position from one time period to another . |
| 17 | It meant that , by carefully counting and scoring different animal actions in given time periods , I could make complicated analyses that helped to unravel the intricate behaviour patterns that existed in so many species . |
| 18 | There is now , however , a non-zero probability that in any time period a price war will break out , and in an infinitely repeated market it is virtually certain that one will be observed . |
| 19 | Now we , we do know that 's a problem , the police service know it 's a problem , and the Chief Constable 's come up with these er these performance targets , where he 's try he 's promising to the public that he 's going to endeavour to make sure that all police telephone calls are answered within certain time periods . |
| 20 | This has resulted in siblings being born much closer together than in earlier time periods . |
| 21 | As stated earlier , expenditure could only equal the value of NOSTRO accounts , the size of which only equal withdrawals from the US money supply in earlier time periods in any case . |
| 22 | If the child obeys within ( say ) ten seconds , follow the behaviour with clear and predictable consequences ; do likewise if he/she disobeys by refusing or ignoring you over that time period . |
| 23 | National expenditure is the actual amount of money spent on goods and services over a given period of time , whereas aggregate demand is the total value that households , firms , the government and foreigners plan to spend out of their respective incomes over that time period : in other words , it is the total amount they are willing and able to spend . |
| 24 | I think there is a tendency erm for local authority planners to have horizons set by the end date of the current plan period , and work , try and work in that , sort of around the real world I think , where nothing happens , or nothing is conceivable , beyond that time period , erm , this particular approach , er does not work in the case of new settlements , there is no need when having established your design size for a new settlement that it necessarily all has to be built within current plan period , and I think this sort of approach is recognized in Cambridgeshire where , in case of the A forty five new settlement , a view was taken at an early stage that a new settlement of three thousand dwellings was needed to meet long term development needs in Cambridgeshire , an area where the planning issues and problems where very similar to those of York , and the approved structure plan in policy proposed that new settlement to be designated as three thousand , of which two thousand portion would be built within the current plan period , so it seems to me that the the question of size need not be an impediment to erm designation of a new settlement if the existing requirement and need are adjudged not to require the sort of new settlement size that we are creating . |
| 25 | Where similar finds are consistently found in layers dated to the same period of time , it can be assumed that these finds belong to that time period . |
| 26 | Moreover , the activity rate just before retirement , 55–59 , has fractionally increased over this time period , so that nearly as many women as men are working as they approach the age of retirement . |
| 27 | Thus , altogether , there were nine cases of colinic cancer in association with ulcerative colitis at this centre over this time period ( Table I ) ; mean age 46.4 years ( range 33–62 ) , mean disease duration 18.2 years ( range 7–26 ) , six men . |
| 28 | As Jeffery points out , this meant that the legal category was unacceptable since it was too obviously variable over different time periods and between different societies . |
| 29 | This produces an average of 11.8 papers per researcher , but because the papers were published over different time periods , an average annual publication rate can not be calculated from this figure . |
| 30 | This produces an average of 11.8 papers per researcher , but because the papers were published over different time periods , an average annual publication rate can not be calculated from this figure . |