Example sentences of "period of very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a period of very stable numbers between 1985–89 , the PCC will thus have seen its workload increase by 66 per cent in only three years , a trend which shows little sign of ending . |
| 2 | In a period of very bad weather , for example , especially in a rural area the post office may run out of real cash , as might other shopkeepers , after a few days without contact from the outside world . |
| 3 | The subsequent depression-hit fifteen years was a period of very slow progress in welfare innovation , particularly in the case of pensions . |
| 4 | It is too easy to slip into a mood of depression at the outset of what promises to be a period of very significant change in education but , in relation to the concerns identified earlier , it would have to be said that the omens are not propitious . |
| 5 | The first stage in its life-cycle is therefore a period of very fast or supernormal growth . |
| 6 | It seems to be that only during the period of very rapid growth . |
| 7 | The population of North Shields shifted from a period of very rapid growth to one of slow growth . |
| 8 | In an attempt to find a model of the universe in which many different initial configurations could have evolved to something like the present universe , a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Alan Guth , suggested that the early universe might have gone through a period of very rapid expansion . |
| 9 | 1972 and early 1973 was a period of very rapid growth throughout the world capitalist system . |