Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A student undergoes a prolonged period of performing stamina exercises aimed at raising the heart rate and improving overall fitness . |
| 2 | Yet between the recognition of a dispute which may end in a trial and its actual arrival before the judge lies a lengthy period of negotiation before or during the operation of the formal pre-trial procedure . |
| 3 | as far as I can gather , I do n't know , I 'd imagine where a line has a minimum period of three months rental |
| 4 | In the horse , T. axei has a prepatent period of 25 days while in game birds infected with T. tenuis it is only 10 days . |
| 5 | Everyone else has a standard period of notice . |
| 6 | The human being ( a far more complex creature inhabiting a far more complex world ) needs to be highly adaptive and has a long period of play in which to build up a vast repertoire of behaviours . |
| 7 | Islamic rule prescribes a 40-day period of abstinence , i.e. a " natural " period until the possible date of the first menstrual onset . |
| 8 | Sadleir 's diary , published in 1866 , describes a critical period of history for which there are no other accounts in European languages and few in Arabic . |
| 9 | Further , from the time of an announcement of an auction until 28 days after it has been held , the Bank observes a fallow period during which it does not sell stock of a similar type to that being auctioned so as not to be seen to be depressing the price . |
| 10 | In particular , the period from 1929 to 1931 , when the PCF was dominated by the unrelentingly sectarian leadership of Barbe and Celor , seemingly obsessed with the sole task of eliminating deviationists from the party line , with all the catastrophic consequences that this entailed ( reduced party membership , loss of electoral support , reduced sales of L'Humanite ) , represents a dark period in the history of the party itself . |
| 11 | The territorial expansion of the big cities , and the further metropolitanization of London itself during this period , represents a fascinating period of land-use change and urban transformation . |
| 12 | It is more likely , however , that it represents a short period of dry climate when there were frequent brush fires . |
| 13 | Post-war Britain offers a suitable period in which to apply the concept of the social construction of old age . |
| 14 | The purchaser of shares usually receives a short period of interest-free credit due to settlement lag . |
| 15 | hatching of most eggs requires a prolonged period of chill followed by a mean day/night temperature of more than 100C , conditions which occur in late spring . |
| 16 | If we make the more realistic assumption that it takes a finite period of time then we have to take into account the fact that replacement of the lower lithosphere by hot asthenosphere during extension will lead to heat being conducted laterally into unextended , and therefore unthinned , lithosphere , as well as vertically into the overlying upper lithosphere ( Fig. 4.17 ( C ) ) . |
| 17 | Moreover , the commitment of the state to provide education is still quantitatively controlled , in a sense in which the commitment of the National Health Service to provide medical care is not : for example , the state fixes a compulsory period of school attendance , defines the standards of provision in schools within the system , and indicates the stages and branches in which further commitments will be accepted . |
| 18 | These long-term priming effects are explained , within the logogen model , by assuming that after threshold has been reached activation dies down rapidly at first over a period of a second or so , but does not quite reach the normal resting level : there follows a long period during which there is very slow decay of residual activation — a period measured in hours or even days . |
| 19 | The decision not to merge with the RSA Examinations Board , announced by the Trustees in October 1992 , heralds a new period for the Board as an independent examining body . |
| 20 | Moreover , this independence ( or , more correctly , this integrity ) again suggests a particular period of production : probably the early mid-fourth century . |