Example sentences of "[be] [art] very [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dean of dental studies , Prof Philip Sutcliffe , praised staff for the way they had responded during what has been a very unsettling period . |
| 2 | To her surprise , this had been a very happy period . |
| 3 | But changing the corporate culture is a very long term solution ( up to ten years ) and can be a very difficult period for all involved . |
| 4 | The ‘ winter of discontent ’ and the subsequent return of the Conservatives for what proved to be a very lengthy period of rule seemed to most observers to mark a profound watershed . |
| 5 | I do think there are problems and difficulties , I do n't think it will be easy , not least because we do n't have a shared morality and a shared consensus , on the objectives for the voluntary sector , but it is a set of concerns which we must address , er , and I believe that if , if I 've done nothing else today , I 've kicked off a debate , or I 've contributed to a debate which was already rolling , erm , and that we must address those difficulties , and try and find ways through them , because there are opportunities as well as threats in the current situation and I believe we have to look at all of those er , so that we can move into the nineteen nineties which I believe will be a very exciting period for the voluntary sector , and one which the voluntary sector should er , see as exciting , grab the opportunities and move forward . |
| 6 | At times it seemed a bit strange to have a university degree and be working so physically hard but in many ways those three years were a very good period . |
| 7 | The range is from 5.0 to 7.6 , so that the star is never too dim to be found with binoculars ; there is a very rough period of around 130 days . |
| 8 | ‘ In the life of any organisation , a centenary is a very considerable period of time , a good deal longer than is given to most of us . |
| 9 | Since 15 million years is a very short period in terms of evolution , we have to conclude that there were some big whales around at the time of the catastrophe . |
| 10 | The second was that this was the very difficult period when , as Dean Acheson said , Britain ‘ had lost an Empire and failed to find a role ’ . |
| 11 | Because the 1980s in the UK was a very favourable period for customers , UK retailers did n't see those developments : most of them spent the 1980s massaging their profits and margins , which they euphemistically called ‘ adding value ’ ’ . |
| 12 | But it has long been known from careful palaeontological studies that even in the thick development in the Cotswolds , there is evidence of two major breaks and a period of folding in what otherwise was a very peaceful period in British geological history . |
| 13 | It was a very difficult period , because whereas retrenchment and redundancy are now something employees understand and accept , this was the first time it had ever happened in ICI since the war . |
| 14 | It was a very difficult period in my career , and the problem with the transfer was that everything was done out in the open . |
| 15 | But it was a very difficult period . |
| 16 | And er that was a very interesting period because it was nineteen thirty nine and of course the , what the , my impressions of America were quite different when you got there , from er what er their er impressions of the world situation were . |