Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within organizations productivity slowed down , on this view , because Taylorism had reached its limits — there were no new areas left to rationalize ; workers had become more resistant , especially during the prolonged period of post-war full employment , and efficiency gains were being outstripped by increasing costs of surveillance and control associated with the rigid separation of mental and managerial labour . |
| 2 | It was the English who failed to do so within the agreed period of two months . |
| 3 | We might go on to say that not only in the medieval period with its plainsong , but also today , the Church owes more to the prayer and music of the religious orders than it will ever appreciate . |
| 4 | It is known that Dionysos was worshipped at Pylos shortly after the Minoan period on Crete and it is possible that his orgiastic cult was preceded by a Minoan proto-Dionysian cult . |
| 5 | The absence of evidence of a distinctive layout of fields before that time has led to the suggestion that Romano-British fields continued to be used in the Saxon period and that open fields may have been something that developed gradually through the Anglo-Saxon period as a whole ( Taylor and Fowler 1978 ) . |
| 6 | But they trailed 58-53 early in the second period after Giants ' Kevin St Kitts and Jerry Johnson spearheaded a 14-0 spurt . |
| 7 | Similarly in the pre-1914 period in Germany the authority of employers ' organisations over their members helped the attainment of an earlier recognition of collective bargaining ( outside manufacturing industry ) , 6 in contrast to its much later acceptance in France . |
| 8 | On Feb. 16 , 1990 , it was reported that the Council of Ministers had earlier in the month made moves to abolish martial law regulations enacted originally during the 1958-61 period of Syrian-Egyptian unity [ see pp. 16005 ; 18437-40 ] . |
| 9 | Even during the short period at Curley 's father 's ranch , George 's attitude towards Lennie changes . |
| 10 | Sotheby 's expert Melanie Clore emphasises that Matisse has alway been an artist for discerning collectors and was never speculated in even during the 1988–90 period like Picasso and Renoir . |
| 11 | Robyn 's generation , coming up to university in the early 1970s , immediately after the heroic period of student politics , were oppressed by a sense of belatedness . |
| 12 | Having risen strongly over the post-war period until that year , growth stopped ; there have been major fluctuations since , but the total has never been so high again . |
| 13 | Vice versa , substantial immigration into growth areas causes social problems of crime , mental illness , etc. , at least during the initial period of settling down . |
| 14 | At least for the short period of time he expected the combat to last . |
| 15 | These have occurred both within the UK and abroad in the recent period of structural change and have affected the international position of UK manufacturing . |
| 16 | The only ray of hope which the BDDA perceived in the report was Dr Eichholz 's call for " a close study of all methods of communication including phonetics linguistics , fingerspelling , finger-reading and gesture " , coupled with a recommendation that " fingerspelling ( the spelling and the reading of it ) should be taught in schools at least in the final period of school life . " |
| 17 | ‘ Orange badge holders should be allowed into the pedestrian area at least in the experimental period of six months , ’ she said . |
| 18 | Chiddingfold pushed hard in the second period of extra time , and Peter Liles saved 'Mill with a super save off his elbow , flicking a goalbound shot just over the bar . |
| 19 | Yet in the inter-war period for both Chesterton and Williamson the myth of the trenches bred a contempt for civilian society and those without direct contact with the nature of modern warfare . |
| 20 | Uzuncarsili follows much the same line , though perhaps in an attempt to salvage something of the Taskopruzade/Mecdi story he suggests in effect that in that story Mehmed I ( 1413–21 ) should be read for Bayezid I : he thus concludes that Molla Fenari left for Karaman either in the confused period following Ankara or in the time of Mehmed I , in the manner described by Taskopruzade . |
| 21 | Erm in connection with erm with reference to the York area housing strategy , again , there is a simple explanation , in that that that document was prepared before the current work on the City of York draft local plan , had progressed to a stage at which members had considered housing sites , and a number of sites in City Council ownership erm within the city , covering some four hundred dwellings have now been agreed by the City Council members as coming forward over the planned period for affordable housing , and in the case of two of those sites it actually requires sites to be taken out of use as public car parks , to bring them forward for development , and that is why the eleven hundred figure is actually reduced now to a seven hundred . |
| 22 | And a I would say that actually during the early period in the Army , I think he probably gave as good as he got . |