Example sentences of "term and [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Clearly there 's no systematic structure in those residuals , right , if the residuals were moving in a cyclical manner erm that would imply that we are missing an important explanatory variable in our model and its systematic effect has been just thrown into the error term and as a result we are picking up that systematic effect in , in residuals .
2 We all intend to continue the same sort of programme for the next couple of years and I have said I would like to call in next term and on a periodic basis until our responsibility ceases .
3 erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about .
4 Well , yes , they have in cash terms and for a proportion of the population they have in real terms too .
5 My purpose rather is to discuss the underlying issues in general terms and at a somewhat philosophic level .
6 Actually the quarrel was largely due to Apollinaire 's careless use of terms and to a rather wilful misunderstanding on the part of Boccioni .
7 Yet in spite of several Cabinet meetings to make reductions , total spending actually increased in real terms and as a proportion of GDP .
8 The decline in employment in manufacturing industry , in both absolute terms and as a proportion of the labour force , is clear enough .
9 The replacement of capital has , in the past two years , been low , both , in cash terms and as a proportion of depreciation !
10 In 1990 Hungary 's defence budget was reduced by 30 per cent in real terms and as a result the Hungarian Army , 106,000 strong in 1988 , was to be reduced to 80,000 by 1991 .
11 The articulation of the two together , in terms and in a context set by the values of the new youth culture , epitomizes the overall problematic proposed by this music-historical moment ; broadly speaking , we can think of romantic fantasy ‘ made young ’ , ‘ given flesh ’ , made to ‘ move ’ physically , while conversely an increased corporeal freedom is presented , in line with the experience of adolescent sexuality in Protestant bourgeois society , in a guarded , personalized , even Ironic manner .
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