Example sentences of "[art] period [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interest earned is normally paid at the end of the period to the respective parties in proportion to the amount of the retention received by them . |
| 2 | In the period between the two maps , the former distortion has just faded out whereas the latter has amplified and migrated to become the significant cyclonic region at the south of Greenland in the second map . |
| 3 | During the period between the two wars in the twenties and thirties a quite successful team played in Halling , and I can recall as a lad spending many hours watching them . |
| 4 | According to van der Grinten , this trend originally arose because of the effects of the trade recession of the period on the municipal authorities funding patient care in the large hospitals . |
| 5 | The state of the market can be ascertained by visiting a number of shops and auctions over the period of a few weeks , and carefully noting the prices . |
| 6 | In addition to these outbursts of weeping with which she made up arrears and which followed close upon the fatal termination of the illness , the lady celebrated annual festivals of remembrance at the period of the various catastrophes . |
| 7 | You have to make sure that the period of the regular payments is measured in the same unit of time as the interest and the term . |
| 8 | There were also other reasons why resentment of Athens should have intensified in the late 450s : for instance , this was the period of the first cleruchies ( settlements of Athenians on allied territory abroad ) . |
| 9 | The period of the two painters ' great intimacy and of their unique collaboration was about to begin . |
| 10 | Her iconography remained more or less constant for over a century until the period of the Napoleonic Wars , at the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | Traditionally the period of the Hundred Years War has been regarded as the time when the crown of France made great steps forward towards the achievement of a policy of centralisation begun under the Capetians some two centuries earlier . |
| 12 | Taxes to the government , taxes which were particularly high in this period , because it 's the period of the war lords , the period of the civil wars , the period of the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party , high levels of war taxation throughout this period . |
| 13 | At each step the period of the current variations doubles . |
| 14 | A. Raistrick ( in Two Centuries of Industrial Welfare ) considers that the period of the Royal Mines Copper — forerunner of the famed London Lead Co. — was from 1692 to 1704 , but the actual conception must have been earlier than this , as the following shows . |
| 15 | The museum is mainly concerned with the local textile industry , and is particularly good on the period of the Luddite riots . |
| 16 | Examples include Olaf Stapledon 's Martians who , in Last and First Men ( 1930 ) , invaded Earth during the period of the Third Men ; and the Venusian virus in Eric Prank Russell 's Three to Conquer ( 1968 ) . |
| 17 | Liliam Jimenez also helped found the Union of Guatemalan Women during the period of the reform-minded governments of Arevalo and Arbenz ( 1950–4 ) . |
| 18 | During the period of the later temples , there was a remarkable output of large ivory figurines at Knossos . |
| 19 | One of the other stock-market listed football clubs , Tottenham Hotspur , capitalises the cost of its players ' registrations and , after allowing for estimated residual values , amortises them over the period of the respective players ' contracts . |
| 20 | The medico-moral strategy was consolidated in the period after the initial reforms of the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 21 | One example will suffice ; Walpole-Bond records , with reference to Wheatears , that during the period from the final years of the 18th to the early ones of the 19th centuries an inhabitant of East Dean ‘ once during that short time was thought to have taken nearly a hundred dozen ’ , and another ‘ near Eastbourne procured eighty-four dozen in the same short space of time ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's an extraordinary capsule in time , covering American collecting over a period of a dozen years ’ , he said . |
| 23 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 24 | The time resolution is excellent - the growth of maize seedlings over a period of a few minutes can be detected . |
| 25 | That this should have happened , within a period of a few generations for example , and therefore in evolutionary terms , immediately , is palpably unlikely , for the mental development which heralded the beginnings of civilisation could have started long before man 's activities were such as would leave archaeological evidence . |
| 26 | Other changes in structure developed more slowly , but although the pattern looked different over a period of a few years , analogues of the basic groups seem to have been present ever since the phenomenon of the contemporary football fan arose in the middle to late 1960s . |
| 27 | As it happens , there is a substantial engine refurbishment contract in the offing which ( although tenders have not yet been invited ) promises to bring someone several tens of millions of pounds in revenue over a period of a few years . |
| 28 | Scientific studies carried out a few years ago revealed that regular sunbed users ( those using a bed more than once a week over a period of a few years ) now have a condition called skin fragility syndrome . |
| 29 | Seismic data were returned to Earth over a period of a few years from these five stations , though they were reduced to four when the Apollo 11 station stopped working . |
| 30 | Because nothing can travel faster than light , an object that can vary its output of energy within a period of a few days can be at best a few light-days across . |