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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a string of period" is not correct in English.
Did you mean "a string of periods"? If this is the case, you can use it to refer to a sequence of punctuation marks, specifically periods, often used to indicate an ellipsis or a pause in text.
Example: "The author used a string of periods to create suspense in the narrative."
Alternatives: "a series of periods" or "a sequence of dots".
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Despite having a string of period pieces to her name, the actress Gemma Arterton's Gravesend vowels still proved too much for director Stephen Frears, who cast Arterton in his forthcoming adaptation of the Posy Simmonds comic strip.
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If we accept that history is a string of wars interrupted with periods of peace spent preparing for the next one, despite how it may sound, there is a positive.
[Geert Leinders was given a life ban by anti-doping agencies for a string of infringements relating to the period before he joined Sky.
He'll make a string of outspoken comments over a period of weeks -- on "re-regulating" the economy or gay marriage -- but none of them have any relation to the others.
He had been unanimously confirmed just 14 months earlier to be the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission by a Senate whose members had hailed him as one of the nation's most brilliant lawyers, just as the agency was headed into one of its most difficult periods, a string of corporate scandals that shook investor confidence in Wall Street.
He also brought his calligraphic talent to the design of a string of typefaces over seven decades, a period in which the industry moved rapidly from hot metal typesetting through photocomposition to digitisation.
On Thursday, the mystery of how one person could have committed a string of robberies over a two-month period was solved — two brothers were responsible, the police said.
John Moore sent a high shot from the blue line that was redirected by Benoit Pouliot with 13 35 left in the first period, ending a string of 53 shots that goaltender Jonathan Quick had stopped.
Back then, a string of discoveries over a ten-month period along Canada's west coast sparked wild theories about the stories behind the severed limbs — everything from a crime writer speculating it could be the work of a serial killer, to people considering if a morgue worker with a twisted sense of humor was to blame.
That was the first in a string of incidents that resulted in three periods of incarceration for Tanner on charges related to writing bad checks and failing to make child-support payments.
Phoenix was hit with a string of penalties starting late in the second period, including a game misconduct to the captain Shane Doan for boarding Kings center Trevor Lewis.
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