Synonym: interval, span, time. Similar words: interior, mysterious, riot, prior, curious, various, warrior, prior to. Meaning: ['pɪrɪəd /'pɪər-] 
n. 1. an amount of time 2. one of three periods of play in hockey games 3. a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time 4. the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon 5. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause 6. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations 7. a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed 8. the end or completion of something.
n. 1. an amount of time 2. one of three periods of play in hockey games 3. a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time 4. the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon 5. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause 6. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations 7. a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed 8. the end or completion of something. 
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241. The period between the decree nisi and the decree absolute was six weeks.
242. The factory was due to shut for the festive period.
243. The selection process takes place over a period of two weeks.
244. A limited number of documents from the period are still extant.
245. Right now we are in the changeover period between autumn and winter.
246. Although not formally trained as an art historian, he is widely respected for his knowledge of the period.
247. Profits have risen by 15 per cent compared with the corresponding period last year.
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248. I don't remember anything about that period in my life—I must have blanked it out.
249. They will phase the new health care system in over a period of five years.
250. A period spent working abroad had done nothing to mellow him.
251. There is a twenty-day cooling-off period in which the investor can choose to back out of the contract.
252. Recent excavations testify to the presence of cultivated inhabitants on the hill during the Arthurian period.
253. Unemployment in the first half of 1993 was 2% lower than in the same period the year before.
254. Obviously,[sentencedict.com] any child who receives dedicated teaching over an extended period is likely to improve.
255. He went through a period of wanting to be accepted.
256. After a period of enforced idleness, she found a new job.
257. The play, whose style is rigidly formal, is typical of the period.
258. Another harm of this kind of medicine is that you have to step up the quantity when you have taken them for a period.
259. They larded many commercials into a ten - minute period before the soap opera.
260. March and April sales this year were up 8 per cent on the corresponding period in 1992.
261. It's the sum total of what you eat over a long period that matters and not what you consume in a day.
262. In a very short period of time, she has become a highly visible national leader.
263. Such decoration was a typical feature of the baroque period.
264. We can find out how much money is spent on food in any given period.
265. You get higher interest if you agree to tie up your savings for a long period.
266. The factory's opening hours over the holiday period will depend on the availability of manpower.
267. After a period of rapid inflation, prices have now reached a plateau.
268. The time spent between jobs should not be a period of inactivity .
269. He has plagiarized most of the book from earlier studies of the period.
270. The incubation period varies depending on the time of year when the eggs were laid.
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