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C'est une **période** délicate. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by BobbyLee and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#9400838](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9400838) [\#9129753](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9129753)) - All at once, in the middle of a fine **period**, he interrupted himself, and his glance, ordinarily so gentle and even stupid, became menacing. Tout à coup, au beau milieu d'une **période**, il s'interrompit, et son regard, d'ordinaire assez doux et même assez bête, devint foudroyant. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5105) - It has been a long gestation **period**. La **période** de gestation a été longue. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 411172) - 12 sub-**periods** of one month each 12 sous-**périodes** d’un mois chacune ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5212157) - **Periods** of instability and conflict **Périodes** d ' instabilité et de conflit ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 29583851) ## pendant Used about 15 223 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 288 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 463 · UN documents ≈ 12 467). - But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her **period**; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days. Si elle enfante une fille, elle sera impure **pendant** deux semaines, comme au temps de son indisposition menstruelle; elle restera soixante-six jours à se purifier de son sang. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 12:5) - A cumulative sample is taken for a one-month **period**. Des échantillons cumulés ont été prélevés **pendant** un mois. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 24079) - The **period** of notice shall not commence to run, however, during maternity leave or sick leave, provided such sick leave does not exceed three months. Toutefois, le délai de préavis ne commence pas à courir **pendant** un congé de maternité ou un congé de maladie, à condition que ce dernier ne dépasse pas trois mois. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 21958) - Observers are also active during intersessional **periods** and are normally invited to participate in workshops. Les observateurs sont également actifs **pendant** les intersessions et sont généralement invités à prendre part à des ateliers. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 22991416) - To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a **period** of forty days and speaking about God’s Kingdom. Après qu’il eut souffert, il leur apparut vivant, et leur en donna plusieurs preuves, se montrant à eux **pendant** quarante jours, et parlant des choses qui concernent le royaume de Dieu. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 1:3) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The **period** is missing. Il manque le point final. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3771043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3771043) [\#10798000](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10798000)) - The **period** is missing. Il manque le point. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#3771043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3771043) [\#8648880](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8648880)) - Ten years is a really long **period** of time. Dix ans, c'est long. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by alec and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#1246269](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1246269) [\#1244756](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1244756)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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