Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | He defines labour socialism as the ‘ political perspective of Labour activists of the period ’ ( p 47 ) . |
| 2 | Certainly the Keynesian view provided the academic basis for the conduct of monetary policy in the period from the Second World War up to the late 1960s , with the influential Radcliffe Report ( 1959 ) supporting this general approach in the UK . |
| 3 | Health , and to a lesser extent education , were key issues of political contention during the period to mid-1991 [ see p. 38200 ] . |
| 4 | He reached the conclusion after studying samples of preserved moss from the period . |
| 5 | Remember that velocity stands for the ratio of total spending over a period of time to the stock of money available . |
| 6 | Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive — ‘ One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake , ’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record-breaking 2m MS-DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth-quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20% sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS-DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61% of total revenues in the period , leaped 63% over year-ago levels to $580m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $2,000m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said . |
| 7 | Anna Cavallaro is the author of the first exhaustive study of this late fifteenth-century artist , the chief exponent of devotional painting of the period . |
| 8 | The second consideration concerns that characteristic feature of French music of the period , notes inégales . |
| 9 | The increase in the number of One-Year courses during the period under review was a gradual one in the District , averaging twenty-five to twenty-seven courses a year between 1925 and 1935 . |
| 10 | It is one of the few examples of mobiliary art of the period from Britain . |
| 11 | The difficulties are obvious : lack of adequate data over the period and , more importantly , the thorny issue of cause and effect . |
| 12 | People have made wonderful toys in a lot of different places over a period of time . |
| 13 | Through the creation and use of databases in a number of different contexts over a period of time , pupils develop an awareness of the microcomputer as an information handling tool rather than a games machine or programming instrument , while , at the same time , developing valuable learning skills . |
| 14 | Liliam Jimenez also helped found the Union of Guatemalan Women during the period of the reform-minded governments of Arevalo and Arbenz ( 1950–4 ) . |
| 15 | This survey also showed an intention to change which reflected the intensity of public scrutiny in the period after the Act . |
| 16 | An efflorescence of scientific publication in the period 1645–1660 — especially in agriculture , mathematics , and medicine — suggests that ingenuity did , for a while , come into fashion . |
| 17 | Maintaining a healthy body of scientific research in a period of financial stringency is a problem of widespread concern . |
| 18 | Detailed studies of English science during the period of the puritan domination have also revealed plans for a national agency to supervise technological innovation — plans that had taken shape in the mind of Samuel Hartlib . |
| 19 | But when Mexican stations moved from the era of foreign capital to the period of nationalist fervour , they took on a new self-conscious national grandeur , complete with the acres of frescos which Aldous Huxley noted on his visit to Mexico . |
| 20 | Much has been written on the performance of British business during the period and many attempts have been made to explain , excuse or refute what has been seen as a decline in British innovative ability since the successes of the industrial revolution . |
| 21 | The appearance of these locomotives , north of Warrington , was not as frequent as you might think from a study of published photographs of the period . |
| 22 | This lack of real parties during the period of Whig supremacy in 1714–60 was made possible by the lack during these years of real issues of principle around which opinion could crystallize and in terms of which politicians could arrange themselves . |
| 23 | The financial costs of various resources ( such as costs of physical resources and labour ) should be quantified and a statement of required expenditure over the period obtained . |
| 24 | Of crucial importance in the period of transition to democracy was the setting up of a specific negotiations commission under Cyril Ramaphosa , secretary-general of the ANC . |
| 25 | As it turned out , the plan of Bailie Hooks was too optimistic and Lord Galloway retained control of the council of his town , but the incident affords a clear illustration of the close links between parliamentary and municipal politics and the holding of official appointments in the period , and indeed the officers in question were placed in their situations through the political influence of the Galloway family . |
| 26 | It is not an overstatement to maintain , therefore , that throughout 1936 the struggle in Spain came to symbolise in Nizan 's eyes , as in the eyes of countless intellectuals of the period , the ultimate stand against fascism . |
| 27 | If an example is needed to make this clearer one can be found in the special place occupied by the Second World War in public consciousness in Britain and , more particularly , in Margaret Thatcher 's increasingly deliberate manipulation of Churchillian sketches over the period of the Falklands crisis . |
| 28 | Further analysis of their data and of additional data for the period from 1970 to 1975 showed that , though the vote for the two main parties had declined in the 1960s , major party identification had not : in other words , electors — whatever they may have done in the polling booths — continued to express a sense of affiliation with one of the two main parties . |
| 29 | This study investigates the health of two substantial areas of basic science over the period 1960-85 , using various measures of health , such as citation analysis , publications , invited papers , peer esteem and migration patterns . |
| 30 | These Picturesque and Romantic views of Wales are hung beside portraits of leading Welshmen of the period , including General Picton by Sir Martin Archer Shee and Thomas Williams , ‘ The Copper King ’ by Sir Thomas Lawrence . |