Example sentences of "this [be] the [adv] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that this is the most unpleasant period in his 25 years in local Government . |
| 2 | A spokesman said ‘ This is the most dramatic period in ferry travel between Northern Ireland and Scotland and the best time ever for the customer . ’ |
| 3 | This is the most difficult period and the one which introduced ‘ evil ’ into the world and hence contains the worst of its history . |
| 4 | This was the immediately post-war period when , presumably because of the years they had spent in the services and munitions factories , there was a great movement for women to return to purely domestic functions . |
| 5 | The second was that this was the very difficult period when , as Dean Acheson said , Britain ‘ had lost an Empire and failed to find a role ’ . |