Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] a [adj] period " in BNC.

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1 Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time .
2 The heroes you have kind of linger on from a prior period when only a few records passed through your life , when you had the time to get fixated , spend weeks living inside a record .
3 45133 and 50015 will then move on for a short period to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway before returning to Butterley .
4 They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help .
5 The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process .
6 Students often hesitate to let a rhythmic design run on for a long period , fearing monotony ; they therefore begin something different every few bars , sometimes in the belief that changing words need a constantly changing accompaniment .
7 Again , files that have not been worked on in a given period can be selected .
8 In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time .
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