Example sentences of "period [prep] [num] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many of the other city churches it was destroyed by fire in the eleventh-century , being totally rebuilt ( on the same foundations ) in Romanesque style over a period of two hundred years . |
| 2 | The Executive Committee shall meet not less than twice a year in every calendar year : decide its own procedure : elect its own Chairman and Vice-Chairman , each of whom may hold the office for a maximum period of four consecutive years . |
| 3 | But it was not only officers and members of the WEA and the District who were pleased with the final agreement over the rural areas scheme and the conclusion of negotiations of byzantine complexity extending over a period of four difficult years . |
| 4 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 5 | Today , after a period of five short years , we are a health-conscious nation , exercising careful concern about our guests ' cholesterol levels when we invite them round to supper , looking unconcerned as yet another jogger pounds us into the pavement as we take a stroll , and reacting with sheer open-eyed shock at the sight of a plate of bacon , eggs and bangers as we spoon down our own regular morning bran cereal — or dish of F-Pan Fibre-Filler . |
| 6 | His entire oeuvre as a photographer fits into a period of 18 short years . |
| 7 | On a time-scale which may not coincide exactly with our present scientific calculations of geological time , they say that the cycle commences with a period of 1.7 million years when the power of the Life Force is immeasurably stronger and more evident in physical affairs than it is today . |
| 8 | Over a period of three hundred years , black people have achieved a growing presence in sport in Britain yet it seems pathetic that we have no account for it apart from reference to the mysterious attribute called natural ability . |
| 9 | Over a period of three consecutive years , between 1 April 1969 and 31 March 1972 , the Library measured the number of foreign-language titles consulted by readers , and recorded the relative frequency with which particular overseas languages were read . |
| 10 | ‘ This is to certify that Color Serjeant William Nicholl served in the 8th ( or The King 's ) Regiment of Foot for a period of Twenty One Years , during which time he has invariably conducted himself as an honest , trustworthy , sober man — Given under my hand at Plymouth , This 4th day of August 1825 , J. Duffy Lf Col Commg 8th or King 's Reg . ’ |
| 11 | They had a mortgage with the Woolwich and an endowment for a fixed period of twenty five years |
| 12 | But Darlington borough council has seen the number of vacant properties for all housing applicants fall during the same period from 930 four years ago to 660 in 1992 . |
| 13 | But Darlington borough council has seen vacant properties for all housing applicants fall during the same period from 930 four years ago to 660 in 1992 . |