Example sentences of "the immediate [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to 150,000 people joined the march in the city centre on Feb. 4 , making it the largest unofficial demonstration in the city since the immediate post-revolution period ; members of unofficial groups of almost every political persuasion joined in , from anarchists and separatists to right-wing Russian nationalists and monarchists . |
| 2 | The immediate post-Aden period , 1927–30 , was in many ways a period of momentous change in Nizan 's lifestyle , a moment when his individual existence stabilised , a moment of transition when a line was drawn between his bourgeois past and his communist future : 1928 , the birth of his daughter , Ann-Marie ; 1929 , the death of his father ; 1930 , the birth of his son , Patrick ; 1929 , the passing of the agregation and the consequent termination of his formal education ; 1929–30 , collaboration in La Revue marxiste . |
| 3 | This can help prevent infection during the immediate post-operative period . |
| 4 | Care in the immediate post-operative period |
| 5 | In the immediate postwar period Germany constituted the single most important drain on the dollar . |
| 6 | In the immediate postwar period the Labour Party , strengthened by more efficient constituency organisation , a new constitution and programme , and a confident trade union movement , was able to mobilise this heightened working-class consciousness among an enlarged electorate . |
| 7 | Overall , gains of the war and the immediate postwar period were not consolidated . |
| 8 | In the immediate postwar period the Labour Party experienced rapid ascent to a position of unchallenged authority which has to the present never been relinquished . |
| 9 | The success of Morrison 's project derived not from the cementing of working-class allegiance to Labour through the unions , but in filling the political vacuum created by the downturn of political and industrial militancy in the immediate postwar period . |
| 10 | Most striking in the immediate postwar period was the alacrity with which official Labour leaders discarded the patriotic card . |
| 11 | Far from seeing the ascent of Labour in the immediate postwar period as a spontaneous response to frustrated hopes and deteriorating social conditions , it was rather a resolution or convergence of deeper currents at a specific historical conjuncture . |
| 12 | Labourism successfully established hegemony in West Ham during the immediate postwar period . |
| 13 | In the immediate postwar period as the franchise was again extended , and as Labour emerged as the principal opposition , so Conservatives retrained their guns . |
| 14 | In the perpetual ‘ Dunkirk of the spirit ’ of the immediate postwar period , ‘ dressiness was confined largely to homosexuals . |
| 15 | The unions then organized massive workplace meetings to discuss national claims — something unknown since the immediate postwar period . |
| 16 | Its attempts to strangle the revolutionary movement at birth during May 1968 were consistent with the approach taken over the previous 30 years , including the immediate postwar period ( part I ) . |
| 17 | From the immediate post-Conquest period come Domesday Book , the output of the hagiographers Goscelin and Osbern , and Hemming 's valuable account of the estates of the bishopric of Worcester . |
| 18 | Although in the immediate post-Restoration period the religious climate proved uncongenial to such ideas , by the later decades of the seventeenth century churchmen schooled in this tradition began to gain some real influence within established Anglican circles . |
| 19 | The nationalities concerned are generally Lutheran ( Estonians and Latvians ) or Roman Catholic ( Lithuanians ) by religion , not Orthodox , and they have been under Soviet rule for a much shorter period of time than most other nationalities , since 1940 rather than the immediate post-revolutionary period ( when communist-led governments were briefly established in all three republics ) . |
| 20 | In the immediate post-war period down to the mid-1950s there were endless external difficulties as the economy tried to recover from the strains of the war ; balance-of-payments crises of a severe kind in 1949 , 1951 , and 1955 , often accompanied by pressure on sterling , were endemic . |
| 21 | It had ceased to operate as a flour mill as early as 1938 and in the immediate post-war period it was used as a seed store . |
| 22 | There is a sense of hero-worship for the Wigan side of the immediate post-war period especially and for Wally Lewis . |
| 23 | The characteristic occupational categories , and the relative strength of each of the seven county Federations in the immediate post-war period up to Ashby is shown in summary form in the following tables for the 1949–50 session : |
| 24 | Petrol rationing , restricted travel , limited travel allowances , the Iron Curtain , expensive air travel and ships still commandeered , made travel in the immediate post-war period seem a bleak prospect . |
| 25 | Most of Let Us Face the Future reads like a prospective history of the immediate post-war period . |
| 26 | Matters did not improve in the afternoon when Tony Crosland , a man of immense intellectual curiosity and an adornment of the Oxford Economics Faculty in the immediate post-war period , added his dose of wisdom and hope : ‘ There was ’ , he said , ‘ no surefire recipe for economic growth . ’ |
| 27 | Both approaches prevented any understanding of the actual processes of local politics , and thus both helped to further the orthodoxy that local politics were largely absent in the immediate post-war period . |
| 28 | Before World War II and in the immediate post-war period industry-wide collective agreements continued to be negotiated between individual employers ' associations and trade unions with little intervention from their respective central organisations . |
| 29 | Again Charles Reif spent two years of operational flying in this theatre , amassing an enviable mission record for a RAAF navigator of the immediate post-war period . ) |
| 30 | The widening of educational opportunity in the immediate post-war period was not accompanied by radical changes in its content . |