Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adv] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early eighteenth century was the most successful period of the School 's activity since its foundation . |
| 2 | The 1930s was the most crucial period in the whole history of cinema in Britain and America . |
| 3 | It was the relatively long period of life from birth to the end of physical dependence on the parents that built into the human being , an eradicable awareness of his vulnerability and a deeply-rooted instinctive expectation that his needs will be met from a source outside himself . |
| 4 | Penny left home at 15 and married at 18 , having a baby quickly — and after what she says was a fairly happy period of her life , she began to go downhill fast . |
| 5 | Because the 1980s in the UK was a very favourable period for customers , UK retailers did n't see those developments : most of them spent the 1980s massaging their profits and margins , which they euphemistically called ‘ adding value ’ ’ . |
| 6 | But it has long been known from careful palaeontological studies that even in the thick development in the Cotswolds , there is evidence of two major breaks and a period of folding in what otherwise was a very peaceful period in British geological history . |
| 7 | It was a very difficult period in my career , and the problem with the transfer was that everything was done out in the open . |