Example sentences of "have a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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
2 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 .
3 Everyone else has a standard period of notice .
4 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 .
5 Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ We have had a long period of success under a lot of good coaches and we are confident John can do a great job for us . ’
6 If children have had a long period without normal feeding experiences they find difficulty in accepting oral food , chewing , and swallowing .
7 However , where the assumption is a letting for a term expiring after the actual term on the terms of the actual lease , the hypothetical lease may have a long period without review .
8 He says I 'm very concerned for local people who will have a further period of uncertainty .
9 Which occupation classes can have a deferred period of four weeks ?
10 Which occupation classes can have a deferred period of four weeks .
11 Most obviously , both women and men can expect to have a recognizable period of ‘ old age ’ when they have ceased paid work , the creation of a standard age of retirement from work being a twentieth century phenomenon .
12 After the traumas of war , revolution and civil war he thought that it was necessary to have a prolonged period of social and political peace which would provide the correct climate for the economic growth that all desired .
13 EU has a range of from 6 to 7 and is said to have a rough period of 60 days , though I have never found much evidence of it .
14 Second , a large proportion of the older workers had a long period of service with the same company before being made redundant .
15 If you are over 45 or 50 , you are unlikely to find it worthwhile , unless you had a considerable period of paying full contributions before you got married .
16 Viennese modernism , which had a briefer period of flourishing than the modernism of other great cities , was also the least oppositional , the least social-critical , of modernisms .
17 Robert always had a free period after lunch .
18 You have a reasonable period of time to decide whether or not to give up your job , but it is not easy to forecast what will be regarded as ‘ reasonable ’ .
19 we have a quiet period for a while and then all of a sudden they all crop up together .
20 Some eurobonds have a lock-up period of 90 days before they can be sold through the secondary markets to domestic investors .
21 At the end of the exercise have a short period of conversation while you concentrate on the fingertips on your larynx and on feeling the right degree of voice volume , your friend keeping check for you on the right amount of voice volume and indicating if it becomes too loud or too quiet .
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