Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | NHS professionals normally perceive day hospitals as a possible alternative to hospital admission for people who are acutely ill and can not be treated as outpatients or at home , as a place for recently discharged short-term in-patients to attend for a period while settling back into normal life , and as a place to treat , monitor and give social support to long-term patients who would otherwise live isolated lives . |
| 2 | ‘ These countries are going to go through a period of not only political but also economic instability for some time to come , ’ he says . |
| 3 | From the president down , the policymakers have always appreciated that Germany was bound to go through a period of introversion . |
| 4 | Finally , you may expect her to go through a period of depression when she is ceasing to try to avoid the reality of her loss . |
| 5 | Whenever we suffer a major loss in our lives — such as the death of a loved one , divorce , redundancy , miscarriage , children leaving home , or the end of a love affair — we need to go through a period of mourning . |
| 6 | Many doctors think that it is important for parents to recognize these feelings and to go through a period of mourning for their lost imaginary baby … |
| 7 | Thus , for example , if people believe that the stock market is about to go through a period of ‘ boom ’ with share prices going up rapidly , they will switch some of their wealth into stocks and shares . |
| 8 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 9 | FOR YOUNG PEOPLE , A NEW ENTITLEMENT TO TRAIN FOR A PERIOD OF UP TO FOUR YEARS , WITH A QUALIFICATION AT THE END OF IT COMPARABLE TO THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF THOSE WHO HAVE STAYED AT SCHOOL . |
| 10 | In Webb the employer was allowed to put forward an explanation , which was accepted as being gender-neutral , that an employee was needed at a specific time to be trained and to cover for a period of maternity leave with the probability of being retained as a permanent employee . |
| 11 | According to Ian Hawkins : ‘ The recession has tested the ability of management to cope with a period of economic downturn deeper and longer than anyone expected , and the venture capitalists ’ ability to negotiate their way through it . |
| 12 | Since over 50% of us seem to opt for a period of co-habitation before we take the marital plunge , these findings are pretty sobering stuff . |
| 13 | In 1340 the king conceded that parliament should have the right to grant the maltote , which it proceeded to do for a period of fifteen months . |
| 14 | This will be difficult to do in a period of stagflation . |
| 15 | All now remain difficult to assign to a period after c. 340 , ( a date which corresponds more closely with that of other mosaics possessing single pairs of rotated squares , see below ) . |
| 16 | The growth of the informal sector allows this process of ‘ privatization ’ to continue in a period of ‘ recovery ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's exactly the sort of stuff I as a historian would love to read about a period , ’ Mr Clark says modestly of his own offering . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , once the initial silting has taken place , the weathering of the ditch is very slow , and such experiments need to run for a period of over a hundred years to gain the maximum results . |
| 19 | It tends to run with a period different from that of a solar day ! |
| 20 | Better management is likely to result from a period of careful observation and assessment , with considerable support being provided at this time through frequent contact with nursing and other ward staff . |
| 21 | To be effective for tax purposes a Deed of Covenant has to turn for a period capable to exceeding three years . |
| 22 | This is not only the temperament of the teacher : it represents also , with Pound , a passionate desire , not merely to write well himself , but to live in a period in which he could be surrounded by equally intelligent and creative minds . |
| 23 | Since both of these effects are likely to occur during a period of higher inflation , the two of them will be working in opposite directions . |
| 24 | In warmer climates , where conditions are often unsuitable for larval survival , the carrier animal is probably a more important source of pasture contamination and outbreaks of disease in lambs and kids are most likely to occur after a period of prolonged rain around the time of weaning . |
| 25 | It seems likely that a similar decline will not be allowed to occur in a period of world food shortages , and continued changes along the present lines can be expected . |
| 26 | An increased rate of major events has repeatedly been demonstrated to occur in a period prior to the onset or recurrence of a variety of psychiatric disorders ( Dohrenwend and Dohrenwend , 1974 ; Lazarus and Cohen , 1977 ; Brown and Harris , 1978 ; Paykel , 1978 ; Kennedy et al. , 1983 ) . |