Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting was timely because Hamish Kidd , a Cambridge chemical engineer who had spent a long period in general management consultancy with P-E Consulting Group , had developed systems to introduce executive search into P-E when it was sanctioned as an allowable technique by the Management Consultants Association ( MCA ) . |
| 2 | To achieve this , you have to serve a qualifying period overseas . |
| 3 | Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ We have had a long period of success under a lot of good coaches and we are confident John can do a great job for us . ’ |
| 4 | They had envisaged a two-month period to put the exhibition together but Central Promotional Services of Leicester , who manage the Centre , offered free exhibition space on 17 August , just ten days after their initial inquiries . |
| 5 | He had spent a short period there as a singer , then formed a reputation at Bordeaux and elsewhere as a gifted opéra director and arranger . |