Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | As was intimated in the introduction , although there is little evidence to suggest that sexual behaviour changed greatly in the period , the feeling remained for many people at the time that this was nevertheless what was happening . |
| 2 | In brief , requisitioning was unpopular , not least since it was often carried out in the period between spring and autumn when trading and fishing conditions might normally be expected to be better than at other times of the year . |
| 3 | There is nothing to suggest that the rural economy was anything but generalised , with evidence for specialisation appearing late in the period . |
| 4 | Much of the distribution of population was built up in a period when British industry enjoyed competitive supremacy in international trade . |
| 5 | It is not surprising either to find that English visitors were hostile ; the notable point is that their real venom was unleashed not in the period before 1560 , when England and Scotland were nourishing their long-standing enmity , but afterwards , when they were officially allies , and particularly once the unthinkable and shameful had happened , and Scotland had given England a king , in the person of James VI in 1603 . |
| 6 | Powder coatings , because they require no solvents , are environmentally friendly products whose market share is growing even in a period of overall slack demand . |
| 7 | Garside ( 1988 ) has shown how in the period 1919–23 civil servants wrestled with the requirement to indicate action , but without generating demands that could not be satisfied . |
| 8 | The same was true of cattle in much of Europe at the time , and probably reflected neglected animal husbandry and a failure to breed selectively in a period when crop-growing was far more important than livestock . |
| 9 | Interviews with the head , senior staff , teacher-librarians and members of the library committee disclose a large measure of agreement that the use made of the library by many of the departments and courses has increased substantially in the period covered by the project . |
| 10 | But , as shown in Table 8 , the velocity of circulation of M3 ( and M4 ) , in fact , fell considerably in the period between 1982 and 1988 . |
| 11 | Pressure to publish is accepted as a normal feature of research work , but publication of Ph D results before or very soon after completion of the thesis has increased considerably in the period after 1977 . |
| 12 | Pressure to publish is accepted as a normal feature of research work , but publication of Ph D results before or very soon after completion of the thesis has increased considerably in the period after 1977 . |
| 13 | The borrowing requirement increased rapidly in the period from the 1960s to the early 1980s , but in 1987 , as a result of tight expenditure control , it was down to 2.6 per cent of the total . |
| 14 | Production increased tenfold in the period leading up to the second world war . |
| 15 | Exactly what extent they could be taken up in the period to ninety six , is not necessarily erm clear because we we do n't know exactly when those are going to be taken up . |
| 16 | It is true that despite her natural handicaps and the overriding barrier to mobility and enterprise represented by serfdom , Russia 's non-agricultural economy did expand substantially in the period . |
| 17 | It is equally true that firms and households are less likely to operate efficiently in a period of inflation , for a number of reasons . |