Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macedonia 's parliament adopted on April 26 a government proposal for Macedonia 's own currency , the denar , which for a one-year transitional period would be represented by a coupon at the rate of DM1.00=360 denars . |
| 2 | Silver must have come from silver-bearing lead and copper ores but there is no evidence of mining lead itself until the late Saxon period . |
| 3 | Although there is nothing in the early Merovingian period to compare with the concern shown by the eighth-century Anglo-Saxons as to what constituted the prohibited degrees of marriage , there was considerable worry about uncanonical sexual relations . |
| 4 | Liverpool 's midweek exertions caught up with them in a low-key second period , but there was still time for Ian Rush to pass the latest in a seemingly endless list of personal landmarks . |
| 5 | This is an extra allowance , worth £1,720 a year at current rates , specially given to widows to assist them over the first difficult period . |
| 6 | She could not but be gratified and relieved at the possibility of a small sum to see her through the likely lean period before she could get another post . |
| 7 | The problem which arises from this is that we are never given any inkling of the totality of a king 's estates , and there is a particular difficulty in trying to construct a picture of crown land by listing all references to it from the whole Merovingian period ; if kings rewarded their followers by conferring estates on them , even though the grant might not be hereditary , the pool of land must have changed constantly . |
| 8 | Woodlice were miniature armadillos ; tomato-coloured mites scampered on the walls as if the brick was burning their feet ; herds of striped and chequered snails glued up their doorways each autumn ; and sluggish , fragile caterpillars , irritatingly , mummified themselves during the one interesting period of their lives . |
| 9 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |