Sentence examples for a period rather from inspiring English sources

The opening salvo, in enormous letters on the rotunda floor, is "Are We Evil," with a period rather than the comfort of a question mark.

In concept, it is similar to the Consumer Price Index, but it is based on changes in prices of items that are actually used during a period, rather than on a fixed basket of purchases.

In every case, the list of truths ends with a comma, followed by a new "that" and another set of truths in every case but for one: after the word "happiness", we get a period rather than a comma.

In fact, the Hall plot analysis only represents the average injection effect over a period, rather than to reflect the real-time characteristics.

The patterns of suicides are more consistent with a period rather than birth-cohort effect.

Declines in mortality reflected a period rather than a cohort effect, and were seen for a wide range of causes of death.

As the pre and post-intervention data were not equivalent, the pre-intervention data represent a control period rather than a control group and provided a baseline for a preliminary comparison of the two models of service delivery.

One option for reducing such compliance risks is to utilise a base period rather a base year as reference for the current CP under NNA.

Limited sponsorship packages had been introduced, in which an advertiser could back a show for an abbreviated period rather than an entire season but there was no reversing the trend.

Furthermore, faecal cortisol metabolites (fCM) concentrations reflect an average level of circulating cortisol over a long period rather than a point in time sample.

Today, "we're in a slowing period rather than a revving-up period," he said.