Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [art] [adj] period of " in BNC.

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1 But shortly before the general election , local authorities throughout Britain were told they did not have to go ahead and that a second period of consultation was to be held .
2 The animated debate amongst students and intellectuals before the Seventh National People 's Congress in April indicated that the anti-bourgeois campaign of 1987 was over and that a renewed period of liberalisation was under way .
3 Moreover , from the annual and diurnal growth patterns of organisms , preserved as fossils , it has been established , for example , that about 380 Ma ago there were about 400 ‘ days ’ in the year and as the orbital period of the Earth is very unlikely to have changed the ‘ day ’ must then have contained only about 22 hours .
4 These will tend to be ESN(S) schools , but if the early period of schooling is successful in developing the child , they may move on to ESN(M) schools and eventually to normal primary schools .
5 Industrial growth , too , suffered from depression , but when a new period of inflation began in the 1890s , it was soon clear that the European economy as a whole was expanding at a rate unsurpassed except in the United States — .
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