Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a [adj] period in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it is a remnant of a disastrous period in the history of European felines . |
| 2 | Each player has been set an individual achievement target , and has the security of a year-long period in which to prove himself . |
| 3 | He flew from London to Sweden at the beginning of December , and at the ceremony on 10 December he was described as " a leader and champion of a new period in the long history of the world 's poetry " . |
| 4 | It is also the culmination of a fifteen-year period in which the care of children had become a major political concern , the focus of media attention and public outrage , and an ideological battleground for rival pressure groups and experts . |
| 5 | As contemporary writing testifies , it was the sad end of a glorious period in English history . |
| 6 | G/C Ilbery , now a doctor living in Australia , was the last man to fly an operational sortie from the now-abandoned airfield in the spring of 1945 , at the end of a bloody period in the anti-shipping strikes from Dallachy and nearby RAF Banff . |