Collocations for "period"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "period" in context.
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period
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [short, brief, long, lengthy, reduced] period (of time)
- the [specified, determined, stated, given, agreed] period
- (over) a three- [week, month, year] period
- the [first, second, third, last, final] period
- a [geological, historical, time] period
- the [Cretaceous, Jurassic] Period
- the [goalkeeper, player] was [injured, hurt] in the [first] period
- [charge, calculate, measure, analyze] by period
- [it happened, they existed] in the same period
- has [math, science, history] in the first period
- (my) first period is [math]
- a short period of [pain, terror, illness, time]
- in [control, trouble, the lead] for a short period
- a period of [10 years]
- the period from [January to March, 1850-1900]
- [during, over, for] the period (of)
- (my daughter) just got her first period
- I just got my period
- am on my period (right now)
- missed my period this month
- did you get your period?
- my period is (a week) late
- am late for my period
- the [sentence, paragraph] doesn't contain any periods
- forgot [to use, the] period
- we are not [going, leaving, stopping], period
- (suffer from) period pain
- is a period [piece, drama]
- in period [costume, dress]
'period' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Lent
- abbreviation
- accrual
- accrue
- attire
- barren
- bellow
- blackout
- blow
- brief
- carry
- class
- clothing
- consultation
- cooling
- costume
- crisis
- crunch
- dark
- definite
- difficult
- drama
- dry
- edgy
- ensuing
- envisage
- examination
- exemption
- expire
- extend
- extended
- extension
- farther
- first
- fixed
- follow
- gain
- garment
- grace
- groom
- herald
- holding
- holy
- honeymoon
- hot
- inspection
- interim
- lengthy
- limited
- lonely