Example sentences of "be [adv] [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we 're trying to do is say look , you are senior people in this company because although you 've only been here a short period of time , but you 're still very senior people . |
| 2 | The 1950s were undoubtedly an important period in the history of the Tanzanian press . |
| 3 | Now it 's a lot of people , it 's only a short period of time , is n't it , one month . |
| 4 | This is still a vital period for the new resident . |
| 5 | On the seven-day cooling-off period , it is correct , as the Minister says , that there are similar provisions in other European countries , but will he confirm that , in those countries where there is a cooling-off period for unions , there is also a cooling-off period for employers ? |
| 6 | They are rewarded with the deep satisfaction of having seen a loved one through what is often the hardest period of their lives , with all its opportunities for expressing affection and support . |
| 7 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |
| 8 | In 1963 the hundred largest UK enterprises controlled on average only 40 plants each within the UK : by 1972 this had increased to 72 , and it is clear that this period of domestic expansion and takeovers was also the main period of international expansion by TNCs . |
| 9 | There clearly was quite an extended period between Eadwine 's marriage to Aethelburh — some time before c . |
| 10 | The third quarter of the century was therefore a fertile period of experiments in the mobilisation of capital for industrial development . |