Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] period of " in BNC.
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1 | Moreover , there has been little recent research on what befalls older manual workers following redundancy , although the labour market has undergone a period of rapid change over the last few years ( one recent exception is Bytheway 1987 ) . |
2 | This patient has suffered a period of acute hypoxia . |
3 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
4 | Fordham was both honest and realistic enough to concede that the most severe examination of his outlook possibly still awaited him — to date , his career has known no period of prolonged failure and the misery this can induce . |
5 | Whatever the outcome , the UK financial sector has entered a period of increasing risk and uncertainty in which it remains to be seen whether the deregulation of the 1980s has provided it with competitive advantages . |
6 | However , the late 1980s has seen the UK housing market enter a much less buoyant phase , with the result that the estate agency sector has entered a period of severe retrenchment . |
7 | A HOME Office grant for a youth work project has signalled a period of intense activity for Middlesbrough 's Safer Cities programme . |
8 | The study appears fortunately timed since it has covered a period of relatively intense local violence between the rival supporters of Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday . |
9 | Spalding has divided the period of growth of the labour movement into different stages ( Spalding 1977 ) . |
10 | Andrew Lloyd Webber ) half inched the composer 's Rondeau as their election theme , the Dean has advised a period of diplomatic silence at services . |
11 | Even wine prices , having enjoyed a period of stability in the Eighties , are beginning to rise as an expanding band of consumers chases after a limited pot of quality wine . |
12 | The employer may have to extend the period of the loan , thus incurring further interest charges or start charging the employee interest . |
13 | Those behind the Feb. 3-4 coup attempt [ see pp. 38759-60 ] , he said , followed a " totalitarian and extremist ideology " ; they would have prevented the holding of the local elections due later in the year , and would have introduced a period of " silence and persecution " . |
14 | By 799 Coenwulf was also in a position to conclude a new treaty of peace with the West Saxons , which seems to have terminated a period of temporary estrangement ( CS 295 : S 154 ) . |
15 | Dennis had experienced a period of unemployment , and this , he admitted , had made him much more sympathetic to social-security claimants and even to strikers . |
16 | Taken together , all these factors allowed a greater breathing space for a consideration of Europe , especially as the democracies had entered a period of unprecedented economic prosperity , something which tended to demote the urgency of protection for specific national interests . |
17 | Already about 1580 , when Marenzio was bringing out his earliest madrigals , secular vocal music had entered a period of crisis . |
18 | By the end of 1990 it was generally accepted that the economy had entered a period of recession , although there remained significant differences over the depth and the likely duration of the downturn . |
19 | In a statement before he left on Nov. 3 , Bérégovoy was quoted as saying that the two countries had overcome a period of strain and had agreed to give a new impetus to their partnership . |
20 | Inevitably , composers have been quick to exploit percussion possibilities , and if anything we have suffered a period of over-use . |
21 | The majority are employed , but about a fifth have suffered a period of unemployment in the past . |
22 | The 1970s and 1980s have constituted a period of major transformation in Britain 's demographic patterns , notwithstanding the almost stationary size of the national population itself . |
23 | Indeed , in order to develop properly , brine shrimp eggs have to undergo a period of desiccation . |
24 | The revolutions in Eastern Europe have paved the way for the dismantling of state socialist systems and have initiated a period of transition towards the re-establishment of a market economy . |