Example sentences of "a period [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The death of the old Daily Herald , the longest surviving Labour daily , founded in 1912 and owned by the Labour party for a period between the wars , was more agony than trauma when compared with the demise of the News Chronicle , but equally disturbing for its supporters . |
| 2 | In the case of the Caribbean slave communities , this probably took only a short time : for example , we know that the emergence of Sranan Tongo , an English-lexified Creole spoken in the coastal region of Surinam , can be dated with reasonable accuracy to a period between the arrival of the first English slave-owning planters in the middle of the seventeenth century , and their expulsion by the Dutch : a total of less than thirty years . |
| 3 | As a member of the Territorial Army Reserve he held the rank of Lt Colonel and served a period as a co of the OTC . |
| 4 | It is said to have been built as a smock mill but later , after a period as a dwelling house , changed to a tower mill and made higher . |
| 5 | A period as a hospital inpatient is an opportunity for patients to break the habit , particularly those who have disease related to smoking or are at high risk , such as those with diabetes . |
| 6 | He had a period as a railway clerk at Bridge , but was dismissed because of a deficit of eleven pounds . |
| 7 | He was born in 1678 , the son of a Dudley locksmith , and progressed to iron working through a period as a brass-founder in Bristol . |
| 8 | So , taking account of the polonium , local people relying mainly on local milk , meat and vegetables could expect doses over a period of a couple of years of about 4 to 15 rems ; more incidentally , than people at Hiroshima within 2 km of the bomb . |
| 9 | Thus , within a period of a year , two of the government 's notorious former loss-makers had been privatised . |
| 10 | Rented property is usually taken for a period of a year with an option to renew for the second and third years of the contract ; even six-month lets are rare . |
| 11 | Erm so therefore I would say in er theory er my understanding would be that yes we could know whatever you wanted to know about particular fields like every two o'clock over a period of a year or whatever . |
| 12 | The forecaster would search past time-series of data for consistent evidence of : * seasonal variations ( which are for instance marked in the case of holiday or toy sales ) over a period of a year . |
| 13 | In South Glamorgan , over a period of a year , a 15-year-old male took 15 cars and was involved in six house burglaries , one handling offence and six thefts . |
| 14 | This trial is the first to prospectively follow elemental diet or prednisolone induced remission in adult patients over a period of a year . |
| 15 | He admitted ten charges of possessing and supplying cannabis and speed over a period of a year . |
| 16 | You wo n't be granted a divorce until a period of a year has elapsed and during that period you 'll have to work out access and maintenance for the children . |
| 17 | With the new proposals it seems the needs of the children will be put first because you wo n't be granted a divorce until a period of a year has elapsed and during that period you 'll have to work out access and maintenance for the children and put their needs first and that seems very good . |
| 18 | The weights are determined from the results of the annual Family Expenditure Survey which covers about 7,000 households selected from all parts of the UK : each member of the household over sixteen years of age is asked to provide information on his or her spending behaviour over a period of a fortnight and also to describe any longer-term expenditures . |
| 19 | The Survey was based on an examination of the book application forms ( commonly referred to as ‘ call-slips ’ ) submitted by readers over a period of a fortnight . |
| 20 | When waves break it has been observed that a jet of water at the crest of the wave may move forward with twice the velocity of the wave as a whole , so that high pressures may be exerted for a period of a second or two on the cliff face . |
| 21 | As we mentioned earlier , once a logogen reaches threshold , its activation level does not immediately return to its normal resting level ; it decays over a period of a second or so . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He said it would change and tone a man in three five-minute sessions over a period of a week . |
| 24 | A period of a week will usually suffice for this purpose after which a stock-take is conducted and the level taken as the opening stock . |
| 25 | While it is a fact that we often eat much more than we imagine we do ( try writing down everything you eat over a period of a week and prove the point ) , it is a fact that some people put on weight far more quickly than others . |
| 26 | The next part of the treatment is to ask him to visualize such a situation over a period of a week or two while , at the same time , trying to refrain from the sexual act itself — although kissing and caressing his partner , whether in bed or not , is to be encouraged . |
| 27 | Another case study of an elderly lady in poor health who slept very little , by Ray Meddis and associates , found that her sleep was light and fitful and , over a period of a week , she only achieved one night 's proper sleep . |
| 28 | Richard escaped the siege of Bytham and for a period of a week or two in February 1221 in the forest of Cliff , Northamptonshire , he held off a royal army . |
| 29 | Holding that the dismissals were fair , the tribunal said that , whilst it accepted that the union did not specifically accept what was proposed by the company , it concluded that , by its continuing and sustained silence over a period of a month , the union had agreed to the compulsory redundancies being handled in the way the company had proposed . |
| 30 | Fertilisations may occur over a period of a month , but the most recent foetuses have the best chance to develop . |