Example sentences of "[verb] a period in which " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should preferably be a fairly recent period of relative stability : since the base period is acting as a point of reference , it would be inappropriate to choose a period in which the price level was affected by any abnormal events , such as a war or a long dock strike which created a serious shortage of imported goods . |
| 2 | The teenage years cover a period in which young women and men mature physically , intellectually and emotionally . |
| 3 | He then began a period in which he combined private study and writing with public service as Commissioner of Appeals and of the Board of Trade and Plantations . |
| 4 | This episode followed a period in which the Thatcher government had shown reluctance to maintain such meagre defences as the Falkland islanders possessed . |
| 5 | The report concluded that the world might have " entered a period in which the average growth rates for output and trade over the business cycle ( would ) be higher than they ( had ) been since the outset of economic difficulties in the late 1960s and early 1970s ' . |
| 6 | The advent of Dutch William in 1688 may have brought a Protestant ruler , but it brought one already embroiled in war with Louis XIV , and ended a period in which the offshore island had played small part in the struggles of continental Europe . |