Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I have spent longer periods overseas , and I would like to mention those in particular : in 1972 , I spent 6 months as a visiting professor at Brown University , Providence , R.I. , U.S.A. ; in 1977 , I spent 3 months teaching in various centres in China ; in 1984 , I spent 3 months as a visiting professor at Kobe University , Japan ; and in 1987 , I spent 3 months as a visiting professor at the University of Paris IV ( the Sorbonne ) . |
| 2 | As soon as you think you may be pregnant , and certainly by the time you 've missed two periods , go to your doctor for confirmation . |
| 3 | As part of the training programme , you had to spend this period underground , of which eighteen months had to be spent on the coal face and during that time you did lots of jobs that mineworkers did . |
| 4 | ‘ It is difficult for young people who have spent large periods of their lives in an institution , and do not have supportive and stable families to help them , to make the transition to independent living ’ , said Shelter ( Scotland ) director Amy Isaac . |
| 5 | What about er , European history , who 's studied this period in modern history at school ? |
| 6 | My own belief , which is shared , oddly enough , by the head of the CIA , William Webster , is that sanctions would have eroded his military capacity so much that , given another nine months or so — assuming we has used that period for more flexible diplomacy , which we notably failed to do — then we could either have got him out by negotiation , or we could have promoted a situation inside Iraq in which he could n't fight . |
| 7 | We have reduced that period to five weeks , which means that millions of patients now wait for shorter periods than they did under a Labour Government . |
| 8 | In many cases they have gone long periods before they have even made a profit . |
| 9 | They used to have a profitable business rearing surplus Friesian heifer calves for sale in-calf. but since TB was found in their herd in January 1986 they have had two periods at Whalley Farm , Whittington , near Cheltenham , Gloucestershire , when they were not allowed to move cattle off the farm , except for immediate slaughter . |
| 10 | When he has had quiet periods one simply got the feeling that he was having a rest , a feeling reinforced by his ability to produce a big innings apparently at will , especially on the grand occasion or when his team is struggling . |
| 11 | ‘ It does n't matter who you are , it has to take that period of time . |
| 12 | John 's father left the family when John was seven , although he had spent long periods away when John was younger . |