Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [art] period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its prestige and pre-eminence were unchallenged until the period of glasnost and perestroika . |
| 2 | All three of these groups were active in the period of widespread industrial disputes from 1766 to 1769 . |
| 3 | Many players , as it happened , were coming near to the age of retirement , so it was possible over a period of six or seven years to make the orchestra young again . |
| 4 | Whilst legislative reforms such as changes in the abortion laws and the law governing homosexuality are viewed as essentially liberal measures , we are not to assume therefore that this was indicative of a period of unproblematically increasing sexual liberation . |
| 5 | Thus when endothelium was stripped from rabbit aorta in vivo prostacyclin production at the luminal surface of the vessel was virtually absent and recovery of prostacyclin production was slow over a period of 70 days coinciding with the appearance of neointimal cells ( Eldor et al , 1981 ) . |