Example sentences of "have [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is apparently most excusable to rape your wife if she has for a period refused sexual intercourse ‘ unjustifiably ’ or if she has refused sexual intercourse unless her housekeeping money were raised , or even , curiously , ‘ in order to win her back . ’ |
| 2 | Sue Weston ( Mrs Griffin ) has after a period of secondment returned to the National Childminding Association where she now works as their National Training Officer . |
| 3 | The BBC had for a period turned from county commentaries to one-liners . |
| 4 | Both had for a period apprenticed their ideas to those of Graham Sutherland and both paid homage to Picasso , Vaughan equating him with Auden and Bartók as an artist who had evolved ‘ a coherent vocabulary of form appropriate to our life ’ . |
| 5 | In fact , there were four distinct varieties , which he regarded as separate races , of subspecies , which had over a period of time become cut off from each other and ceased to interbreed . |