Example sentences of "to a [adj -er] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems very doubtful whether the required amount of water ever falls in present conditions and many authorities have attributed such erosion to a wetter period during the Pleistocene . |
| 2 | For use limited to a shorter period , the alternative would be to rent the machines . |
| 3 | Convergence ( not to be confused with phyletic convergence ) refers to the degree of resemblance of faunas in different regions increasing from an earlier to a later period , and divergence refers to the reverse phenomenon ( Fig. 18. 3 ) . |
| 4 | It was superbly performed and I found it enjoyable , although it did seem to hark back to an earlier period of American modern dance . |
| 5 | Regression is a trip in time , in the mind , to an earlier period in life . |
| 6 | A round arch near the pulpit is thought by some authorities to belong to an earlier period . |
| 7 | We could find no cause for this when I regressed him to an earlier period in this life and so I went on to regress him to what appeared to be a previous life . |
| 8 | In academic writings it is probably more common to look to an earlier period as the time when family solidarity was of prime importance . |
| 9 | There have been cases in cashmere relating to an earlier period and we are pursuing those actively with the EC authorities . |