Example sentences of "[prep] a period in [Wh det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the successful intervention of the communist Chinese in the Korean War proved to be the start of a period in which the British , while they clung of necessity to the Atlantic alliance , were often fearful of some impulsive or extreme action by the United States which would lead to an unnecessary intensification of East–West conflict and even , possibly , to the Third World War . |
| 2 | Forbes assumed that much of northern Europe had been submerged by a shallow ocean during a period in which the climate was significantly colder than the present ( Lyell 's alternative to the ice age theory ) . |
| 3 | As Clower pointed out , it takes a strange contortion of language to characterize the 1930s as a period in which the basic problem was that of an excess demand for goods ! |
| 4 | This section has described policy developments in a period in which the Conservatives and Labour alternated in power . |
| 5 | Is it mere coincidence that , over a period in which the observed unemployment rate rose almost fivefold , the estimate for NAIRU rose almost fourfold ? |
| 6 | This time is followed by a period in which the chances of becoming dry are low ( MacKeith et al . |