Example sentences of "in period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the difference between North and South in periods between 1971 and 1984 ( Table 5.4 ) could still be predicted from the national industrial composition of changes in employment . |
| 2 | This analysis suggests that if , in periods of intensified conflict , crisis is displaced on to the deviant , the process only succeeds because of the paranoid instabilities at the heart of dominant cultural identities . |
| 3 | The attempt to grasp this difference and to put it into words is a recurrent theme of Formen , especially because the secondary theme is to understand the contradiction which arises when the two opposed conceptions of man occur in the same society in periods of transition . |
| 4 | Although Exell 's reminiscences are coloured by the fact that he was an active Communist and trade unionist , they can not hide the fact that the pay in the new industries was generally good when compared with the majority of the working classes — and very high in periods of prosperity . |
| 5 | But it is a system of winners and losers and in periods of crisis there are far more losers than winners . |
| 6 | Third , retirement has played an important role in periods of high unemployment . |
| 7 | Indeed , most European countries have tended to put pressure on older workers to retire in periods of high unemployment . |
| 8 | Whichever indicator one cares to use of the roles of the government in economic life — government expenditure as a percentage of GNP , total tax revenue relative to income , the range of activities in which the government is involved as producer , the extent to which economic life is subject to some form or other of regulation — all show a similar long-term growth in periods of peacetime throughout the present century . |
| 9 | In periods of slump , for example , they may be drawn out of the labour market more quickly than other groups ( particularly unskilled and semi-skilled older workers ) ; in periods of labour shortage , the justification for retiring and becoming a ‘ non-producing consumer ’ may be questioned as part of a campaign to call back or retain people in the labour force . |
| 10 | In periods of slump , for example , they may be drawn out of the labour market more quickly than other groups ( particularly unskilled and semi-skilled older workers ) ; in periods of labour shortage , the justification for retiring and becoming a ‘ non-producing consumer ’ may be questioned as part of a campaign to call back or retain people in the labour force . |
| 11 | As photographers know , a great deal can happen in periods of time as long as a hundredth of a second . |
| 12 | In many countries employers ' organisations originated , often in periods of cyclical upswings in economic activity , with the intention of providing protection against onslaughts upon the position of employers and the undermining of their prerogatives , especially from trade unions . |
| 13 | All consumers were urged to ‘ switch off at the peak ’ and in periods of severe difficulties moral suasion was backed up by statutory controls , though for small consumers these were practically impossible to enforce , so that voluntary restriction remained the more important . |
| 14 | Specify capitalism 's needs at any time and the structure of state organization is explained — except of course in periods of acute crisis . |
| 15 | In periods of expansion , the time involved in negotiating contracts can be lengthy as suppliers look for long-term guarantees and may try to play one buyer against another . |
| 16 | On the other hand , in periods of expansion the financial muscle of the group can be mobilized to provide preferential loans and credit terms . |
| 17 | In periods of rapid expansion an increase in their own scale of operations has been paralleled by an expansion of output in smaller affiliated companies . |
| 18 | There is always some potential for opposition and change ; this comes to a climax in periods of revolutionary social transformation . |
| 19 | As a result of social investigation there was greater recognition than before of the causes of unemployment , in particular of the distinction between the chronic underemployment of the casual poor of big cities and the recurrent temporary unemployment of large numbers of superior workers in periods of depression . |
| 20 | This distinguished between the temporary unemployment of skilled workers in periods of depression and the permanent underemployment of others in a labour market overstocked with workers with limited or no skills . |
| 21 | Even in periods of recession the opportunities exist to take a greater market share , to create a new market , to develop a new product or service to meet an unfulfilled need . |
| 22 | Think how time flies in periods of intense , purposeful activity . |
| 23 | The regulationist school can , therefore , give a cogent account of the international economy in periods of structural change ; and its concept of the international economy as consisting of the relations between coherent national economies with one dominant over the others appears credible . |
| 24 | One possible answer is that in periods of structural change major upheavals and dislocation are felt — a crisis is obvious — whereas in the intervening years changes occur smoothly and are felt to be less dramatic . |
| 25 | As Massey and Meegan ( 1982 ) have argued , relocation away from intense class struggle is just one option facing employers ; they also contend that consideration of the various options is most likely in periods of recession when profitability is low and some form of restructuring crucial , and that relocation may then be part of a composite strategy involving restructuring of the labour process . |
| 26 | Since the period in question has been one of economic growth , and since it is argued that the demand for temporary workers grows faster than the demand for labour as a whole in periods of rising economic activity , our findings are particularly noteworthy . |
| 27 | Since one of these — the LFS — spans a period of economic growth , and since it is argued that the demand for temporary workers grows faster than demand for labour as a whole in periods of rising economic activity , this finding is particularly striking . |
| 28 | And in periods of high unemployment , and especially in areas or occupations in which the current employer is in a dominant position , the threat of discharge is a potent weapon . |
| 29 | It is indeed the relative integrity of these phases , in certain periods of human practice , which allows us to see certain subsequent specializations , in periods of altered general practice , as historical rather than categorical facts ( and the theory of Lukacs , in terms , as idealist rather than historical-materialist ) . |
| 30 | Indeed there is much evidence to suggest that the distinctions are most actively sought in periods of growing secularization , when the habit of referring all practices , finally , to some central faith and purpose , is loosening or has been lost . |