eight-month period
collocation in Englishmeaningsofperiod
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period
noun[C]
uk/ˈpɪə.ri.əd/us/ˈpɪr.i.əd/
a length ...
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(Definition ofperiodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofeight-month period
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The comparable figure for the previouseight-monthperiodwas 629,000.
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Thiseight-monthperiodwould probably begin in the middle of 2013.
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The horizontal time scale was extended without breaks over the wholeeight-monthperiodto show the decreasing trend in captured flies over time.
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The comparable figure for the previouseight-monthperiodwas 629,000.
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However, as the clubs went in too early they were past the seven toeight-monthperiodduring which they could access funding.
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What we are discussing for the first time is the reduction of a 12-month assessment period for the uprating to aneight-monthperiod.
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It thus covers price rises only over aneight-monthperiod.
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My point is that the switch from a 12-month to aneight-monthperiodcan produce very different results.
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The figures are even worse for support staff: 248 left in thateight-monthperiod; and 219 have resigned, with only 13 taking retirement.
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A 16m advertising campaign, and aneight-monthperiodof parallel running during which old and new codes were active, preceded the change.
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Thiseight-monthperiodwould probably begin in the middle of 2013.
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He was treated several times at the hospital over aneight-monthperiod.
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After clearing the island of vegetation in 1931, the island was flattened by blasting an estimated 1,000 tonnes of rock from the top of the island over aneight-monthperiod.
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Dekeyser credits family and old friends with helping him recover after aneight-monthperiodhe describes as a hole that could not be deeper or blacker.
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Cohen wrote most of the novel during two concentrated eight-month periods in 1964 and 1965.
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