Example sentences of "[noun prp] for a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Federal Assembly on July 5 re-elected Vaclav Havel as President of Czechoslovakia for a further period of two years . |
| 2 | With characteristically bad judgement , Charles now turned back to the Scots , with whom he made a secret treaty under which the Solemn League and Covenant would be confirmed by King and Parliament , and presbyterianism would be established in England for a limited period . |
| 3 | It was agreed that as the European War was over I should take my family back to England for a short period of leave . |
| 4 | They moved north to Scotland for an intensive period of training , and he found himself in command of a section of young volunteers , many of whom were to serve with him later in the Middle East . |
| 5 | By 1673 , he thought that too many of his supporters were being exposed to danger by his presence so he went off to Ireland for a cooling-down period . |
| 6 | After two years national service he returned to Newark for a short period before moving to Peterborough in 1952 . |
| 7 | Leslie arrives in Dublin mid-October for a three-month period . |
| 8 | Great Britain , for example , has two chambers — the House of Commons and the House of Lords , but the power of the House of Lords is restricted to the possibility of delaying legislation passed by the Commons for a short period and trying to make amendments to bills , if the government is prepared to accept them . |
| 9 | It thus appears most unlikely that Fahreddin Acemi could have held the kadilik of Edirne for a significant period and much more likely that he never held it at all ; and in this respect , in his not holding a kadilik simultaneously with the Muftilik , Fahreddin Acemi seems not only to differ from his predecessors but also to resemble all his successors in the office of Mufti . |
| 10 | All Hanne knows is that the two of them are staying somewhere in Copenhagen for an indefinite period . ’ |
| 11 | Sigismund III of Poland actually enticed Marenzio to his new capital at Warsaw for a short period in 1595–6 and employed a number of Italian musicians , one of whom , Asprilio Pacelli ( 1570–1623 ) , published a book of madrigals ( Venice , 1601 ) ; but that was all . |
| 12 | Phase two of INDECS will involve automating the process further , The cards will be replaced by computer terminals at ports , which will automatically register those visitors who are given leave to stay in Britain for a fixed period . |
| 13 | The controversial new plant , which has not yet been given an operating licence [ see ED 64 ] , was to have supplied reprocessed plutonium to Japan for a 20-year period . |
| 14 | Between 1736 and 1738 Ramsay journeyed to Italy for an extended period of study , training under Francesco Imperiale in Rome and Francesco Solimena in Naples . |
| 15 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 16 | This gamble is not without its parallels : the city fathers of Bilbao have decided to build a museum of modern art , and rent works of art plus the Guggenheim name from the Guggenheim Foundation in New York for an initial period of twenty years ( see The Art Newspaper No. 5 April 1992 , p. 5 ) . |
| 17 | In March 1986 , a special offer for school librarians was issued , giving low cost access to Prestel for a limited period . |
| 18 | Dr Dodgson was commissioned by the ESRC for an additional period to develop the survey in a number of areas . |
| 19 | The plan called for the creation of a 51-member Islamic Jihad Council ( IJC ) to take power in Kabul for a two-month period . |