Example sentences of "followed [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gives us a picture of a firm conversion to theism in the summer of 1929 , followed by a period in which he believed in God , but not in the doctrines of Christianity . |
| 2 | ‘ Whenever I have had some sort of public success , ’ he reported in his autobiography , ‘ it has inevitably been followed by a period of personal financial distress and prolonged unemployment . ’ |
| 3 | The question , ‘ Why do you have the farm ? ’ often evoked a look of surprise followed by a period of silence . |
| 4 | This is followed by a period during which he is trapped in London 's underworld of pickpockets , burglars , safe-breakers , and prostitutes , although the fence Fagin , who exploits these lesser criminals , is unable to destroy his innocence . |
| 5 | When a proposal or statement is followed by a period of silence , the person who breaks the silence loses — wrong ! |
| 6 | Structural studies of the shales and greywackes of the Skiddaw Group have refined the understanding of the deformational history : the early episode of major slump folding identified previously now appears to have been followed by a period of upright folding that has been subsequently modified by south-directed thrusting . |
| 7 | This time is followed by a period in which the chances of becoming dry are low ( MacKeith et al . |
| 8 | Examination of the debate on Buxton 's resolutions for gradual emancipation of 15 May 1823 , of his resolution for parliament to take up general emancipation of 15 April 1831 ( the resolution was interpreted in the debate by other speakers as being immediatist ) and , more briefly , of the debate on Stanley 's government resolutions for emancipation followed by a period of apprenticeship of 14 May 1833 indicates a clear shift to acceptance of abolitionist assumptions . |
| 9 | Marjanov 's early training as a machine-fitter was followed by a period of study with Megert at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf , where the artist now lives and works in the Ratherstrasse artists ' collective . |
| 10 | However , the swift rout of China in 1894–95 was followed by a period of tense rivalry between Russia and Japan culminating in the war of 1904–05 . |
| 11 | That structure of international regulation broke down in the 1970s and has been followed by a period of instability where it is uncertain whether US hegemony can be re-established or whether a different mode of regulation under Japanese or European domination will be constructed . |
| 12 | The first , consecutive pattern , in which a period of theoretical study is followed by a period of supervised practice , is associated mainly with some of the traditional professions such as medicine , dentistry , veterinary science , law and to a large extent engineering . |
| 13 | A net outflow from the UK until the 1931 Census was followed by a period of net inward migration which culminated in the early 1960s in the peak arrivals of migrants from the ‘ new Commonwealth ’ , chiefly the Caribbean and the Indian sub-continent , reflecting a UK shortage of labour in the long ‘ post-war boom ’ . |
| 14 | The searing impact of recession left behind the raw legacy of redundant sites and workers in all of the northern conurbations , above all because it was followed by a period of jobless growth in industry ( 1982–87 ) . |
| 15 | POST-PARTUM ABSTINENCE — Normal sexual relations will obviously not be resumed immediately after termination of a pregnancy , which is naturally followed by a period of abstinence . |
| 16 | The collapse of the ceasefire agreement reached in Gbadolite ( Zaire ) in June 1989 [ see p. 36726 ] was followed by a period of intense fighting between the MPLA-PT government and UNITA in the first half of 1990 , centred on the battle for control of Mavinga , a strategic UNITA base near its Jamba headquarters in the south-east of the country . |
| 17 | In primary sclerosing cholangitis standard liver function tests may improve after diagnosis — a result of diagnosis tending to be at times of maximal abnormality in a fluctuating course and likely therefore to be followed by a period of partial remission . |
| 18 | There is some evidence that Cornish tin-mining maintained a reasonable level of production , although with some fluctuations : a sharp drop just after the Black Death and a boom at the end of the fourteenth century were followed by a period of depression in the half-century after 1430 , with a considerable recovery by the early sixteenth century . |