Example sentences of "[verb] with [art] period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Burlamachi 's prime corresponds with the period of more active English involvement in continental affairs from about 1618 to 1630 .
2 The official newspaper of the Communist Youth League had reportedly been criticized for publishing investigative reports against party orders , and its editors had been threatened with a period in the country .
3 Some individuals , even when living in normal society , do not remain in synchrony with the 24-hour day and instead free-run with a period of about 25 hours .
4 Pat Thane 's The Foundation of the Welfare State , deals with the period from 1870 onward .
5 Each integrated session must begin with a period of preparation lasting approximately 45–60 minutes .
6 According to Ian Hawkins : ‘ The recession has tested the ability of management to cope with a period of economic downturn deeper and longer than anyone expected , and the venture capitalists ’ ability to negotiate their way through it .
7 In this case , the RC time constant of the filter must be long compared with the period of the carrier but short compared with the briefest period involved in the modulation .
8 The only major attempt dealt with the period between the mid 1950s and the mid 1960s [ Reddaway , 1967 , 1968 ] .
9 On a time-scale which may not coincide exactly with our present scientific calculations of geological time , they say that the cycle commences with a period of 1.7 million years when the power of the Life Force is immeasurably stronger and more evident in physical affairs than it is today .
10 Since then the spots have come and gone with a period of roughly 11 years .
11 By an irony of fate , abolition coincided with a period of rising crime , both violent and non-violent , in which Britain shared with most other countries on both sides of the Atlantic .
12 We had chosen our visit to coincide with the full moon , but it also coincided with a period of maximum solar flare activity , and on every clear night the Lights treated us to a spectacular show in green and red .
13 As elsewhere in Europe , the Reformation in Slovenia coincided with a period of social unrest which was characterised by a number of peasant revolts .
14 The data collection coincided with a period of increasing structural tensions associated with a period of increasing structural tensions associated with reorganisations and amalgamations due to a re-unifying Germany .
15 Preliminary observations suggest that the acceleration of the exodus from the larger cities coincided with a period of intensive family raising and with large-scale clearance of sub-standard housing , while in contrast , the last ten years have witnessed falling fertility , population ageing , higher divorce rates and other changes leading to different housing requirements , as well as government efforts to redevelop inner city areas and curb the rate of decentralization .
16 There was chronic overcapacity on domestic US passenger air routes , and rising fuel prices now coincided with a period of heavily reduced passenger bookings , connected with the weakness of the dollar and with fears arising from the Gulf crisis .
17 Certainly his spell in Africa coincided with a period of great upheaval in the former empire countries that accounted for much of Grant 's small overseas markets at the time .
18 This act certainly constituted a legal precondition to the proclamation of Finland 's neutrality , but it coincided with a period in the mid and late 1950s when for various reasons the notion of neutrality in Europe suddenly gained a positive image among Soviet leaders .
19 Moreover , as he made clear , he found the measured pace and rhythm of the work especially congenial , coinciding as it did with a period of remarkable creative gestation .
20 The widespread acceptance of floating exchange rates has been associated with a period of less favourable economic developments , such as massive payments imbalances arising from large but often irregular oil prices increases , declining commodity prices ( which seriously affect less developed economies ) , high interest rates during the 1980s ( which worsened the debt position of many countries ) , and lower average economic growth compared with the Bretton Woods era .
21 The data collection coincided with a period of increasing structural tensions associated with a period of increasing structural tensions associated with reorganisations and amalgamations due to a re-unifying Germany .
22 The legends , of course , are primarily associated with the period from the Darnley marriage to the flight to England , 1565–8 ; and the next high point of drama came with her involvement in the Babington Plot and her execution in 1587 .
23 If this flowering season coincides with a period of terrible weather , you could lose the entire crop for that year .
24 He described human infants as being likely to experience problems in the regulation of breathing , such as those associated with the sudden infant death syndrome , because their anatomical and neurological immaturity coincides with a period of change that is specific to humans , that of the acquisition and use of language .
25 In the treatment of gonorrhoea with complications , a longer course of antibiotic therapy is needed and this must usually be combined with a period of rest , preferably in bed , preferably alone .
26 This incentive , combined with a period of cost containment in which public hospital funding from state and federal governments has been under increasing pressure , has created even more of a temptation to attract privately funded patients in preference to patients solely supported by public funds .
27 IF , in the Forties and Fifties , a traditional training course for British comedians would start with the period of apprenticeship in ENSA and be followed by a stint filling in the gaps between trippers at the Windmill Theatre , these days a university degree ( from Cambridge , ideally ) has increasingly become a requisite for any successful career in stage , films or television humour .
28 Finally , duration is correlated with the period of time for which the relevant neurones are active .
29 Interaction usually begins with a period of eye contact which appears to signal from me to you ( and vice versa ) that we are ready to relate .
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