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Example sentences for: period

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After Parliament in London abolished slavery in 1833, there was a transitional apprenticeship period of 5 years before all slaves in the colony became fully free on 1 August 1838.
During the contract period H-2A aliens are very fearful of losing their job or of not being accepted by their employer for future employment should they complain.
It announced a military occupation destined to endure beyond the Civil War (or War between the States, as it is known in the south) into the Reconstruction period — for a total of 14 bitter years.
8% (722 of 2,203 cases) of all early stage breast cancer cases recorded in the HTR during the study period.
If the units at a facility that are subject to the requirements of section 422, 432, 452, or 472emit sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, or mercury for any calendar year in excess of the sulfur dioxide allowances, nitrogen oxides allowances, or mercury allowances, as the case may be, that the owner or operator of the facility holds for use for the facility for that calendar year, the owner or operator shall be liable to offset the excess emissions by an equal amount of tons or, for mercury, ounces in the following calendar year, or such longer period as the Administrator may prescribe.