Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain it was too good to last , but the slogan led to a disastrous period of false optimism . |
| 2 | The coin belongs to the Persian period , bears the inscription " Judaea " ( YHD ) , and shows a figure on a winged throne or on a chariot : this figure apparently confronts a Dionysiac mask ( B. Kanael , The Biblical Archaeologist 26 ( 1963 ) , 40 and fig. 2 ) . |
| 3 | Through contacts formed in a previous period of field work with poor urban women of this category , the investigator is proposing to hold long open-ended discussions with a sample of older women and their daughters on the subject of AIDS : e.g. their knowledge of the epidemiology of the disease , the method of its transmission and finally their assessment of their own risk of contracting the disease . |
| 4 | Because the clinical signs appear during the prepatent period faecal egg counts are of little value in diagnosis which is best made on grazing history , clinical signs , and is possible , a post-mortem examination . |
| 5 | Nor was this resistance to diminish in the post-war period , as will be seen in the next chapter . |
| 6 | The first-years , after a first term filled with the medieval period and a second with the Renaissance , were now going to learn about the Baroque . |
| 7 | For these species , therefore , about half of the bones expected to be present , based on the numbers of prey animals consumed over a measured period , were recovered from the pellets . |
| 8 | In a study undertaken over a two-week period , Tom Tadecki , research director of the International Coalition Against Violent Entertainment , found that more than 33 per cent of its programmes involved some form of aggression , with violent acts occurring at a rate of 10 per hour . |
| 9 | For a short while after it fires , the nerve goes through a refractory period when it will not respond to a nervous stimulus . |
| 10 | An exception to this rule occurs around the periparturient period when immunity wanes , particularly in heifers , and there are reports of clinical disease following calving . |
| 11 | Since much of the pathogenic effect occurs within the prepatent period , the faecal egg count may be very low . |
| 12 | No drain was inserted in view of the likelihood of ascites developing in the postoperative period . |
| 13 | The examination of all the images produced during a particular period or of a selection of images over a longer period will often provide a good idea of how the relevant state or regime wished to represent itself . |
| 14 | While the constitutional and legal changes laid the foundations for a breakdown of the dominance of the household and for greater individual rights , especially for women , considerable importance still attaches to some of the characteristics noted in the prewar period , albeit with modifications . |
| 15 | The court may extend the date but if nine months expires after the extended period the action will be automatically struck out . |
| 16 | The growth of population and commensurate expansion of settlement is reflected by the increasingly varied soil environments settled through the Anglo-Saxon period . |
| 17 | The migrating motor complex consists of a cyclical period of activity with a length of about 120 minutes in man . |
| 18 | Chairman Alan Potts explained : ‘ The Club went through a bad period in the eighties but happily we resolved the problems . ’ |
| 19 | Subsequently , barbel fishing went through a slack period when interest was lost through an increased enthusiasm for game fishing . |
| 20 | Although modern floods are still of importance , much of the Amotape fan dates from the Pleistocene period . |
| 21 | A Metropolitan Police study conducted during a three-month period in 1979 found that 0.4 per cent of detainees were held for seventy-two hours or more . |
| 22 | Such factors may include , for instance , a previous experience of loss which was dealt with badly , unresolved grief , past experience of failure , a lack of a sense of self-efficacy , a low self-esteem , a previous history of psychiatric disorder , and an absence of close relationships established over a long period of time . |
| 23 | North Korea reiterated its demand for compensation not only for Japan 's colonization of Korea from 1910 to 1945 , but also for damage suffered in the post-war period , for which Japan disclaimed responsibility . |
| 24 | Ninety per cent of the houses built in the inter-war period were of low rateable value , not exceeding £26 ( £35 in Greater London ) . |
| 25 | This is referred to in the legislation as ‘ permission granted for a limited period only ’ . |
| 26 | Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change . |
| 27 | Further , it may suggest a drift away from the shallow , light soils favoured in the early period to heavier soils which are more fertile and produce a greater yield per acre . |
| 28 | Increasingly in some areas it can be seen that settlement sites occupied in the Roman period continued through post-Roman times to form the basic framework of medieval and modern villages and hamlets . |
| 29 | Barro presents some evidence that no such pattern exists : this evidence is from the Durbin-Watson statistic ( see Johnston , 1984 , pp. 314–17 ) which tests the null hypothesis that the error in predicting DM in any period t made by equation ( 6.7 ) is unrelated to the error made in the previous period . |
| 30 | If a system crash occurs during a busy period , ANALYZE/RMS should be run on the LIFESPAN database details files to verify that VMS has maintained consistency . |