Example sentences of "[adj] period in [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The climate which developed in this period in Britain was one in which the prejudices of the judiciary were reinforced by a media campaign supportive of the Tory Party 's ideas on moral decay and over-dependence upon the state . |
| 2 | Even in this period in Japan , however , it is highly unlikely that the exchange rate movement was the dominating factor in declining profitability . |
| 3 | But this view is probably due to our imperfect knowledge of the remains of this period in East Anglia , bearing in mind , too , that with the shortage of good building stone most of the buildings would have been in timber , the excavation and interpretation of which has only recently become a normal archaeological technique . |
| 4 | On the other side were the proponents of a new " music of the future " ( Zukunftsmusik ) , represented by Berlioz , Liszt , and above all , Wagner , whose restless chromatic explorations , culminating at this period in Tristan und Isolde ( finished in 1859 ) and the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen ( 1854–74 ) , most radically undermined traditional diatonic stability . |
| 5 | By the time amber had reached the head of the Adriatic it was readily accessible by sea and it is hardly surprising that Kakovatos on the west coast of the Peloponnese should have yielded the richest find of amber from this period in Greece . |
| 6 | Sheep numbers doubled during this period in Wales ; Scottish sheep numbers rose by only 12% . |
| 7 | A sequence when Custer attacks an Indian village could not help but stir vivid memories of the My Lai massacre and the photos of Vietnamese on fire that were seen in all the newspapers and on television during that dark period in America 's history . |
| 8 | It is most probably that the inhabitants had heard of this religion which had spread over Europe and had been known as early as the late Roman period in Britain . |
| 9 | It pushes back , to a disconcertingly early period in Pound 's life , the first signs of that aridity , that closing of the doors of perception , which — drastically arrested and reversed though it was , at Pisa and through the first years at St Elizabeth 's — reasserted itself and wreaked the desolation of Thrones . |
| 10 | When its heroine , Dorothea , first entertains the illusion that marriage to Mr Casaubon will confer upon the everyday-the aspect of great things , she makes one exception to the frustration of her efforts as a single woman to lead a significant life in that period in England : ‘ I do n't feel sure about doing good in any way now ; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I do n't know ; — unless it were building good cottages — there can be no doubt about that . ’ |
| 11 | Her formal education , after a brief period in Islington , was in a school in Heidelberg where , as well as developing her musical talents , she acquired a facility in languages which was to be useful in her later career . |
| 12 | Britain firmly and — except for a brief period in March 1951 — consistently advocated the conclusion of an early peace treaty . |
| 13 | The Aden episode lasted from September 1926 until May 1927 : approximately nine months ; a brief period in Nizan 's existence but one which had far reaching consequences . |
| 14 | Except for a brief period in September and October when prices threatened to fall to below $400 , platinum remained close to $500 an ounce for much of the year . |
| 15 | Except for a brief period in August , rubber prices were in decline despite falling stocks and low output in Malaysia . |
| 16 | The fact remains that the finest jades of the archaic period in China were symbolic in character and served no purpose in technology . |
| 17 | Certainly the happiest and most confident period in Firdaus ' life is when she can pick and choose her customers and determine for herself the relationship she will have with them . |
| 18 | We do not know what interest rates were in Israel but we do know that the annual rate of interest in the ancient Near East was very high : in Babylonia and Assyria it was 20–25 per cent for money loans , 33 per cent for loans in kind and frequently more ; in Upper Mesopotamia and Elam rates were higher , reaching 50 per cent for money loans ; in the Ptolemaic period in Egypt rates seem to have been around 12 per cent . |
| 19 | The post-war period in Britain has been characterized by the development of geriatric medicine as a legitimate medical specialism . |
| 20 | This predominantly one-directional social mobility was the pattern up until the quadrupling of oil prices in the winter of 1973 — 4 , an event which , for the purposes of this book , is accepted as marking the end of the post-war period in Britain . |
| 21 | A decade after the end of the first post-war period in Britain ( that is , during the sharp oil price rise mentioned above ) social mobility was characterized both by heightening opportunities of rising socially , as well as increased risks of being caught in a downward spiral — particularly for those of working-class origin , who are among those who most easily fall prey to recruitment into the underclass . |
| 22 | Dr Alexandre was a privileged witness to what we now consider to have been the most important period in Modigliani 's life , from 1907 to 1914 ; that is , from his arrival in Paris . |
| 23 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 24 | During his first period in Spain he fell seriously and mysteriously ill , and spent some time in hospital . |
| 25 | Gold appeared during the prehistoric period in Japan but never made a deep impression on the consciousness of the Japanese . |
| 26 | During the revolutionary period in France , following the fall of Louis Philippe in 1848 , Buddicom struggled valiantly to keep the railway in operation despite considerable physical danger to himself and to his family . |
| 27 | The first was the heroic period in London between June 1940 and May 1943 . |
| 28 | Physical chemists like Vernon Harcourt in Oxford were just beginning to study reaction-mechanisms in a few simple cases in the 1860s , and at the same period in France P. M. Berthelot was performing total syntheses , and in Norway C. M. Guldberg and P. Waage discovered the Law of Mass Action governing chemical equilibria . |
| 29 | During the same period in New Zealand this age group increased from 2 per cent to 10 per cent of total population . |
| 30 | The court heard that Ironside had been banned from the roads for two years in May 1990 and for the same period in February 1991 . |