• This shows that modest savings over a long period might build to a large capital sum which can be used to help give the child a good start in life.

    BBC: Child Trust Funds: What should I do?

  • The choice for a new contributor was simple: Set up your own blog, and patiently hope you can build audience over a period of years, or join the club and get instant exposure.

    FORBES: What's Really Behind the HuffPo Revolt

  • The Security Council today called for more rapid and pointed efforts to build peace in the period immediately after strife-torn countries emerged from armed conflict, following a day-long open debate in which more than 40 speakers delivered statements.

    UN: Security Council

  • He has proved over a long period his ability to build teams that challenged for, and have been successful in, major domestic and European competitions.

    CNN: Carlo Ancelotti: Chelsea's new manager

  • It will now be subject to a 12-month probation period in order to build up a track record of compliance with the rules of sponsoring students to study in the UK. During this time the number of students it can recruit from abroad will also be limited.

    BBC: London Met wins back foreign student licence

  • It is not clear, for example, how such a large position was allowed to build up over the three-month period that the activity was said to be taking place.

    ECONOMIST: UBS��s trading loss

  • The Bronx Bombers' great run of 1996 to 2000, when they won four World Series titles in five years, came shortly after a losing cycle in the early '90s, a period the team used to build its talent base organically.

    FORBES: Want To Pitch Today? Here's A Million Dollars

  • There will be a one month consultation on allowing homeowners and businesses, for a three-year period, to be able to build much bigger extensions without planning permission than they can at present.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • Employers and CareerBuilder experts recommended a variety of activities you should engage in to build, expand, and strengthen your skills during period of unemployment, in order to increase your marketability.

    FORBES: 10 Things To Do While You're Unemployed

  • In the case of the Pope's visit, there was a high level of coverage but it was over a period of months and weeks - the build-up and so on.

    BBC: Catholic Church in Scotland 'lacks support on sexuality'

  • The retail order period begins Monday while institutional orders are expected to build from Wednesday.

    FORBES: Europe Bank Bonds Get Battered

  • All sides should take this holiday period to reflect on what they can do to build the confidence necessary to move forward to the next stage.

    BBC: May (2): Mo Mowlam

  • Our company has, in good faith, invested significant sums, taken risks and endured a period of disappointing results in order to re-build the Martha Stewart brand and grow it in important product categories.

    WSJ: Macy, Penney to spar in court over Martha Stewart

  • Under a typical school PPP project, the council awards a private sector consortium of various firms a contract to build or refurbish properties and then maintain the facilities over a period of perhaps 25 years or more.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Union steps up fight against PPP

  • In the Middle East people started to build settlements as early as 15, 000 years ago, a period called the Early Natufian, but a drying of the climate made them nomadic again between 12, 800 and 11, 500 years ago.

    ECONOMIST: The earliest granaries

  • On the Russian side, better relations with America rest partly on Mr Putin's calculation that he needs a period of stability in foreign policy while he seeks to build up the Russian economy, and partly on his skill at extracting a quid for quos he had to concede anyway.

    ECONOMIST: Europe and America

  • Only in the later Imperial period, when Rome became an autarky, did rulers begin to build the monumental structures that Malone admires.

    FORBES: The New Pharaohs: Confusing Triumphalism and State Coercion With Progress

  • The period of the chop is shorter, since waves have less room to build than they do at sea.

    FORBES: Windy City Sailing

  • The Knicks needed all his offense to build a lead, with the Hawks making 9 of 13 shots (69 percent) in the period.

    WSJ: Anthony's 9 3s, 42 points lead Knicks over Hawks

  • But to survive the current period of American strategic madness, Israel and the US's other unwanted allies must build alliances with one another - covertly if need be - to contain their adversaries in the absence of America.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Surviving in a post-American world

  • To be honest, if Facebook can manage 50% revenue growth for any significant period from here out, that achievement would be extraordinary, be more than satisfactory to build one of the most valuable businesses on earth (more so than they are already one of those), and is probably a high-end scenario unless the company develops entirely new lines of business.

    FORBES: Will Facebook Generate More Revenue Than Google?

  • In 1995 the federal government decreed so-called Order 58-R, which set the volume of oil exports and obligated the Moscow Oil Refinery to build a factory for processing polypropylene-based chemicals, financed by petroleum revenues over a ten-year period.

    FORBES: The Boomerang Effect

  • And Tkachov vowed at a public meeting that the government will "build... a new home for you in three to four months, before the beginning of the cold period, " according to the same report.

    CNN: July 9, 2012 -- Updated 0150 GMT (0950 HKT)

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