Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Minister can identify any objective professional evidence that five years is the period needed , that would be very interesting , but I believe that all the expert evidence that he received supported a period of seven years . |
| 2 | He had endured a period in an animation studio , frustrated by being directed what to draw . |
| 3 | It was true that she had missed a period , but that could mean anything or nothing . |
| 4 | Dennis had experienced a period of unemployment , and this , he admitted , had made him much more sympathetic to social-security claimants and even to strikers . |
| 5 | Taken together , all these factors allowed a greater breathing space for a consideration of Europe , especially as the democracies had entered a period of unprecedented economic prosperity , something which tended to demote the urgency of protection for specific national interests . |
| 6 | Already about 1580 , when Marenzio was bringing out his earliest madrigals , secular vocal music had entered a period of crisis . |
| 7 | By the end of 1990 it was generally accepted that the economy had entered a period of recession , although there remained significant differences over the depth and the likely duration of the downturn . |
| 8 | In a statement before he left on Nov. 3 , Bérégovoy was quoted as saying that the two countries had overcome a period of strain and had agreed to give a new impetus to their partnership . |
| 9 | Please to remember I had finished my own stint , and I had served a period on Bennett 's staff as his " horse-thief " — the recruiter and trainer , I was the Group training inspector . |
| 10 | studies of radical tracts had covered a period without any of today 's party politics . |