Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its author dispensed with the laconic and often uninformative methods adopted by many medieval annalists , writing at length and in a distinctive style not unlike that of homilists of the period , and with the same purpose — heightened effect . |
| 2 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 3 | They 've had the effect of halving the value of payments due to creditors during the period of an I N F agreement and have benefited seventeen countries so far including thirteen in sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 4 | The axiom which the creed creates takes the believer back millions of years beyond the period of controversial claims of ‘ revelation ’ by a ‘ god ’ who created all the universe . |
| 5 | Since females in these species become available to males over a period of weeks or months , the possibility exists for some males to mate with several females during the course of a breeding season . |
| 6 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |
| 7 | However , Age Concern has done some research and found that the percentage increase in the average income of the lowest quintile of pensioners over the period 1978 to 1988 is 15 per cent . |
| 8 | She says they 've got dozens of dishes from the period . |
| 9 | It has been true in parts for a period of British politics but it is not the theoretical key to unlock the essence of things as was once thought to be the case . |