Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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1 | My belief is that our good practice has evolved over a period of more than 50 years and that it has developed in classrooms through the dedicated expertise of British teachers enjoying the relative freedom traditionally allowed within our education system . |
2 | The following fall into this category : ( i ) step-parents ; ( ii ) anyone with whom the child has lived for a period of three years within the last five ; the relevant period of three years need not be continuous but must not have ended more than three months before the application is made ; ( iii ) where the child is in care , anyone who has the consent of the local authority ; ( iv ) where the child is not in care , anyone who has the consent of each person with parental responsibility for the child . |
3 | the failure has continued for a period of , or periods amounting to , at least five years , |
4 | Answer guide : To provide a guide to the way in which a business has performed over a period of time . |
5 | Indeed this emphasis has persisted into a period where , in the new media , large-scale organizations are in fact available for analysis . |
6 | To be effective for tax purposes a Deed of Covenant has to turn for a period capable to exceeding three years . |
7 | Eisenhower had presided over a period of grim Cold War tension which he , like most Americans , believed had been caused by the ambitions of world communism . |
8 | In the case of the urban riots , it is the nature of the television coverage which is in essence inciting other young people in different parts of the country to civil disobedience , whereas in the case of football violence , the implication is that the perceived lack of moral leadership by the broadcasting corporations has led over a period of years to a general moral climate in this country which fails to provide adequate controls over the behaviour of the nation 's youth . |
9 | CHESAPEAKE BAY Has created over a period of about 17000 years . |
10 | It has to be admitted that the railway has passed through a period of financial difficulty but now appears to be settled and operating a successful service of trains . |
11 | In a report published in July 1991 the OECD found that " the economies of the old federal Länder … have exhibited a remarkably high degree of resilience and strength , combining faster growth with maintenance of low inflation , while the five new Länder have gone through a period of severe adjustment , involving in its initial stage heavy output and employment losses " . |
12 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
13 | Does he further agree that the time has come for a period of consolidation ? |