Example sentences of "[be] the [adv] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Alexandre was a privileged witness to what we now consider to have been the most important period in Modigliani 's life , from 1907 to 1914 ; that is , from his arrival in Paris . |
| 2 | I feel wonderful inside and out , it has been the most productive period in ages , and one day I 'll need my sound nerves more than ever … |
| 3 | ‘ That is the most traumatic period for both the children and their parents , as the children can often be subjected to jibes and name-calling , ’ Dr Allen added . |
| 4 | He says that this is the most unpleasant period in his 25 years in local Government . |
| 5 | This is the most difficult period and the one which introduced ‘ evil ’ into the world and hence contains the worst of its history . |
| 6 | A spokesman said ‘ This is the most dramatic period in ferry travel between Northern Ireland and Scotland and the best time ever for the customer . ’ |
| 7 | This was the immediately post-war period when , presumably because of the years they had spent in the services and munitions factories , there was a great movement for women to return to purely domestic functions . |
| 8 | The early eighteenth century was the most successful period of the School 's activity since its foundation . |
| 9 | Indeed , 1977–9 , with Roy Mason at the Northern Irish ministry , was the most unproductive period that Ireland had known , in political or constitutional terms , since the troubles began in the late 1960s . |
| 10 | The 1930s was the most crucial period in the whole history of cinema in Britain and America . |
| 11 | It was the relatively long period of life from birth to the end of physical dependence on the parents that built into the human being , an eradicable awareness of his vulnerability and a deeply-rooted instinctive expectation that his needs will be met from a source outside himself . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |