Example sentences of "[adj] period of time [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , manual workers tended to be paid benefits for shorter periods of time and they received smaller amounts than non-manual workers . |
| 2 | So we are talking in general terms about being willing to share our time , energy , space and care , particularly with people who have been recently bereaved through some major form of loss , maybe for a shod period of time while they readjust , maybe for a long time as the person or people involved learn to face life 's vicissitudes alone . |
| 3 | I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves |
| 4 | Okay , fair enough , it was turned over on appeal eventually erm but erm it was a bit of a miscarriage of justice being kept in prison for that period of time until it was overturned pleaded guilty to another murder but that 's by the by . |
| 5 | As its name implies , this is based on your average earnings over the total period of time that you are participating in the scheme . |
| 6 | By the following weekend , Ned had begun to lose interest in his lover and within two weeks , much to her distress , he began leaving her alone for long periods of time while he chased after a very attractive Border Collie who had just moved into a neighbouring street . |
| 7 | And thirdly we have to satisfy you that in the circumstances of the operation the police were justified in restraining Mr with handcuffs for the short period of time that he was restrained and in addition Mrs who you will remember was restrained in her lounge , she was told she could n't leave the lounge , again for a few minutes . |
| 8 | You can borrow small sums for a short period of time or you can borrow large amounts for many years , such as a mortgage . |
| 9 | This process whereby financial intermediaries lend for longer periods of time than they borrow is known as maturity transformation . |
| 10 | They can be encouraged to sit for gradually longer and longer periods of time until they can finish their meal in one sitting . |
| 11 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 12 | As part of the deal with AA , he was required to stay with the firm for the same period of time that he had spent in the US . |
| 13 | Second , under the proposals , established partners who anticipate retiring after the five-year transitional relief has expired will pay tax in respect of a greater period of time than they have actually been a partner . |