Example sentences of "was [adv] [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a twenty-year period of formal civil conflict . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was n't an enjoyable period of his life , but he stuck it out , certain that he was on the right track . |
| 4 | There clearly was quite an extended period between Eadwine 's marriage to Aethelburh — some time before c . |
| 5 | The third quarter of the century was therefore a fertile period of experiments in the mobilisation of capital for industrial development . |