Example sentences of "a period [prep] [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | during a period of economic crisis the hegemony of capitalist ideology fosters a search for alternatives to the failure of the system as an explanation for the crisis . |
| 2 | Sexual relations between the newcomer and the old man 's daughters are not resented , and after a period of mutual co-existence the young male leads the daughters into a separate existence as a new harem . |
| 3 | In a period of rapid change the family was an obvious model of traditional , ordered society with its pattern of authority and dependence . |
| 4 | In areas of endemic haemonchosis it has often been observed that after the advent of a period of heavy rain the faecal worm egg counts of sheep infected with H. contortus drop sharply to near zero levels due to the expulsion of the major part of the adult worm burden . |
| 5 | The result is that after a period of free movement the material begins to harden and if one goes on deforming it it will become brittle . |