Example sentences of "[adv] for a [adv] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when this phase has been completed , and perhaps only for a relatively brief period at the height of a crisis , can a second phase of overt conflict between proletarians and capitalists become manifest ( Przeworski , 1977 ) . |
| 2 | If the oil film breaks down momentarily for a very short period of time that little bit of carbon that four percent carbon in the cast iron will actually stop the aluminium sticking to the cylinder . |
| 3 | And finally we went to see Karl Dönitz , the admiral who throughout the war had epitomized the U-boat service and been its inspired leader , who in 1943 had relieved Admiral Raeder as Germany 's naval commander-in-chief , and finally for a very brief period before arrest and ten years ' imprisonment in Spandau had succeeded Hitler as Chancellor . |
| 4 | Hence , for example , children wet the bed — usually for a very brief period — for a variety of understandable reasons : emotional upset over the strange and terrifying journey , homesickness , fear of their new foster parents — sometimes because a toilet was inaccessible . |
| 5 | However , if gains are kept offshore for a sufficiently long period of time , the return on investment may exceed the increased capital gains tax liability . |
| 6 | On the one hand , ethnic minorities currently settled in Britain have been here for a relatively short period of time , and it seems that circumstances of migration and initial settlement are conditions under which support between siblings assumes greater significance than it might otherwise do — a point illustrated by the patterns of chain migration and of joint households which I discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 7 | The LDP fear that an attempt to phase out whaling , even for a theoretically temporary period of a moratorium , would lose them the support of the fishing communities . |
| 8 | But only very for a very short period . |