Sentence examples for customary period from inspiring English sources

Nijinsky declined, preferring to fulfill the customary period of study.

The first priority of a stimulus package should be to extend unemployment benefits beyond the customary period.

We will now go through our customary period of mourning.

That will irk the St Mirren manager, but it will not come as a shock, since speculation about his position has hardly abated since January, when the team was in the midst of one of its customary periods of poor form.

Styron retreated into his customary gestation period, emerging in 1979 with Sophie's Choice.

Thus far, however, the new mayor has benefited from a customary honeymoon period.

The customary mourning period after a romantic breakup in a freshman dormitory is one week.

More recently, Republican leaders extended the customary voting period from 15 minutes to nearly three hours to give themselves enough time to twist the arms necessary to win the vote on the Medicare bill.

The Senate got permission from the governor to ignore the customary waiting period, then stayed late and approved the long budget bills before most senators had time to read or debate them.

In the midst of these struggles, on November 15, 2006, the City Council held a meeting that included, as was customary, a period for open comment, when citizens could address the Council on issues of their choice for three minutes apiece.

Risking alienating its star news anchor, Barbara Walters, ABC announced a fall lineup yesterday that will push one of the network's institutions, its longtime newsmagazine "20/20," out of its customary time period for half a season and off the air entirely for up to seven weeks.