Example sentences of "[art] period of [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody expected this : we can all remember the period of China-mania in the United States in the 1970s , and the anticipation of a ‘ tripolar world ’ . |
| 2 | Withdrawal from southern England , therefore , may have been accompanied by a period of consolidation in the more immediately adjoining territories around the Mercian heartland , analogous to processes at work in northern and southern England . |
| 3 | Even wine prices , having enjoyed a period of stability in the Eighties , are beginning to rise as an expanding band of consumers chases after a limited pot of quality wine . |
| 4 | Hungary started to introduce market-oriented reforms as long ago as 1968 and , after a period of retreat in the 1970s , renewed this reform process in the 1980s . |
| 5 | Danish kings emerge from a period of obscurity in the middle of the tenth century , when a dynasty based on Jelling in Jutland , and represented by Gorm the Old and his son Harald Bluetooth , seems to have extended its authority over the whole country , which then included the province of Skåne in modern Sweden . |
| 6 | There is some evidence that Cornish tin-mining maintained a reasonable level of production , although with some fluctuations : a sharp drop just after the Black Death and a boom at the end of the fourteenth century were followed by a period of depression in the half-century after 1430 , with a considerable recovery by the early sixteenth century . |
| 7 | The majority are employed , but about a fifth have suffered a period of unemployment in the past . |
| 8 | Though state medicine suffered a period of retrenchment in the closing decades of the nineteenth century , medical research enlarged its scope and sphere of influence . |
| 9 | This was a period of growth in the size of government in terms of budgets and the areas of service provision . |
| 10 | Perhaps general practitioners wishing to provide some diabetic care should have a period of training in the specialty and work for a period in a diabetic clinic to enhance their experience . |