Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting . |
| 2 | It was the kingdom of the Franks which was to exercise most influence for the longest period of time . |
| 3 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 4 | In addition , the copyright monopoly is only given for a certain period of time ( eg in the UK , 50 years from the end of the year in which the author dies ) , but databases are usually continuously updated with new information , therefore does the protection period keep changing ? |
| 5 | Therefore , in the subsequent 56 patients adjuvant therapy with chenodeoxycholic acid 7 mg/kg/day and ursodeoxycholic acid 5 mg/kg/ day was given for an arbitrary period of three months after the procedure . |
| 6 | These data are given for the post-war period in Figure 2.1 . |
| 7 | Patients who presented as emergencies were excluded , as were patients treated during the same period of time with cancers arising in a background of familial Polyposis coli or long standing ulcerative colitis . |
| 8 | The mill-pond was drained for a three-year period in order to allow some necessary excavation . |
| 9 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
| 10 | Barthes has differentiated between a postwar period during which the cultural influence of the French writer/intellectual has gradually diminished , and an interwar period during which " great writers … such as Gide , Claudel , Valery , Malraux … were at the centre of intense activity , exerting enormous cultural influence " . " |
| 11 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 12 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 13 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 14 | Lord Ackner stated that : There is clearly no reason in English contract law why A , for good consideration , should not achieve an enforceable agreement whereby B , agrees for a specified period of time not to negotiate with anyone except A in relation to the sale of his property … |
| 15 | Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change . |
| 16 | This new hobby developed during an interesting period for the British press . |
| 17 | The statutory power to recommend a minimum period might , in practice , have been used to create a tariff among the judges for all murders , so that the recommended minimum came to be regarded as the appropriate period of detention , subject only to the question whether the prisoner was a danger to the public when it expired . |
| 18 | All sorts of schemes were thought up to keep people busy and occupied during the trying period of ‘ waiting to be demobbed . ’ |
| 19 | Nevertheless separate meetings which President Vassiliou and Denktash held with the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , on Nov. 29 and Dec. 4 , 1989 , resulted in both sides accepting an invitation from Pérez de Cuéllar to meet for an indefinite period in search of an agreement , starting on Feb. 26 , 1990 . |
| 20 | Students in this year may also opt for a substantial period on an experimental or computational project within the Meteorology Department . |
| 21 | The company of some elderly relatives can only be enjoyed for a limited period at the end of a busy day , and long evenings — every evening — spent together can be a strain on all concerned in different ways . |
| 22 | Also by virtue of its ability to predict whether a company will survive for a given period of time , it can give the credit manager more confidence to enter into long term relationships with customers . |
| 23 | As in the preparasitic stage , growth of the larva during parasitic development is interrupted by two moults , each of these occurring during a short period of lethargus . |
| 24 | The British LFS permits temporary workers to differentiate themselves between those engaged on a seasonal , temporary or casual basis and those contracted to work for a fixed period of time or to undertake a fixed task . |
| 25 | Yet it is known that between one third and one half of mentally handicapped people currently resident in mental handicap hospitals should not be in hospital and could be either immediately discharged or discharged after a short period of training . |
| 26 | It should be noted that cl 3.2 gives a right to reject for latent defects that could not have been discovered upon examination and which appear after a reasonable period of use . |
| 27 | In most cases , this initial period will count towards the minimum period of study for the degree . |
| 28 | Applicants are registered in the first instance as supervised postgraduate students ; this initial period will count towards the minimum period of study for the degree . |
| 29 | Would these principles survive into the next period of change in the 1990s , or had they outlived their time ? |
| 30 | Postwar holiday consumption patterns in Britain indicate the rapid growth of package holidays in the 1950s , but the roots of this boom are located in an earlier period before the Second World War . |