- a particular length of time
- a long/an extended period
- a short/brief period
- period of something a period of transition/uncertainty/expansion
- a period of two years/six months/four weeks
- a two-year/six-month/four-week period
- All these changes happened over a period of time.
- A year-to-year lease has no fixed time period.
- for a period The offer is available for a limited period only.
- This compares with a 4% increase for the same period last year.
- The project will run for a six-month trial period.
- over a period The hall will be closed over a 2-year period.
- during a period We know little of her life during that period.
- The aim is to reduce traffic at peak periods.
- Tomorrow will be cold with sunny periods.
Extra ExamplesTopics Timea1- Committee members will not be eligible for re-election within a period of two years.
- Eastern Europe entered a period of transition in the 1990s.
- Public spending was cut during his period of office.
- Sales have gone up in the last-five-year period.
- The balance must be paid within an agreed period of time.
- The film spans a period of 40 years of Castro's rule.
- The medication is prescribed for a fixed period of time.
- The most formative period of life is childhood.
- The period was marked by a succession of financial crises.
- The view is that the government's honeymoon period is over.
- There will be a reduced bus service over the Christmas period.
- Try breaking your period of study into 20-minute blocks.
- We lived in Caracas for a brief period.
- We visited five different cities within a two-day period.
- You can use the software free for a 30-day trial period.
- You have been paid for the full period of your employment with us.
- a critical period in the development of the project
- a happy period in her life
- a period of transition from a totalitarian regime to democratic government
- after a long period of waiting
- during the intervening period
- the period between his resigning and finding a new job
- the period from 1 July to 31 December
- There are extra buses at peak periods.
- There was a long period of uncertainty before we knew the final decision.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- extended
- lengthy
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- costume
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- after a period
- during the period
- throughout the period
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- the beginning of a period
- the start of a period
- the end of a period
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- a length of time in the life of a particular person or in the history of a particular country
- Which period of history would you most like to have lived in?
- This textbook covers the post-war period.
- The church dates from the Norman period.
- We are currently studying the early medieval period.
- Like Picasso, she too had a blue period.
- Most teenagers go through a period of rebelling.
Extra ExamplesTopics Historya1- The picture was painted by Picasso during his blue period.
- the late Victorian period
- the period covered by the book
- a dark period in the country's history
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- extended
- lengthy
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- (geology) a length of time which is a division of an era. A period is divided into epochs.
- the Jurassic period
- Dinosaurs died out during the Cretaceous period.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- extended
- lengthy
- long
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- cover
- span
- begin
- …
- begin
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- after a period
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- the beginning of a period
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- any of the parts that a day is divided into at a school, college, etc. for study
- ‘What do you have next period?’ ‘French.’
- a free/study period (= for private study)
Extra ExamplesTopics Educationb2- We've got French next period.
- I have two free periods on Tuesday afternoons.
- the flow of blood each month from the body of a woman who is not pregnant
- period pains
- monthly periods
- When did you last have a period?
Extra Examples- I was thirteen when I started my period.
- I have my period and don't feel too great.
- Missing a period is often one of the first signs that a woman is pregnant.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- heavy
- light
- menstrual
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- have
- start
- miss
- …
- start
- stop
- last
- …
- cramps
- pains
- (North American English) (British English full stop)the mark ( . ) used at the end of a sentence and in some abbreviations, for example e.g.Topics Languageb1
length of time
lesson
woman
punctuation
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting the time during which something, especially a disease, runs its course): from Old French periode, via Latin from Greek periodos ‘orbit, recurrence, course’, from peri- ‘around’ + hodos ‘way, course’. The sense ‘portion of time’ dates from the early 17th cent.
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