Example sentences of "entered a period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Taken together , all these factors allowed a greater breathing space for a consideration of Europe , especially as the democracies had entered a period of unprecedented economic prosperity , something which tended to demote the urgency of protection for specific national interests .
2 The Geevor tin mine , near Land 's End , also entered a period of restricted production .
3 Rejected contemptuously by Sartre in 1968 as an integral part of the conservative forces of reaction , the PCF has subsequently entered a period of possibly irreversible decline during the 1970s and 1980s .
4 Already about 1580 , when Marenzio was bringing out his earliest madrigals , secular vocal music had entered a period of crisis .
5 Whatever the outcome , the UK financial sector has entered a period of increasing risk and uncertainty in which it remains to be seen whether the deregulation of the 1980s has provided it with competitive advantages .
6 However , the late 1980s has seen the UK housing market enter a much less buoyant phase , with the result that the estate agency sector has entered a period of severe retrenchment .
7 By the end of 1990 it was generally accepted that the economy had entered a period of recession , although there remained significant differences over the depth and the likely duration of the downturn .
8 The Roman Catholic Church also entered a period of renewed growth , particularly in Lancashire and other parts of the country where Irish people settled in large numbers .
9 The report concluded that the world might have " entered a period in which the average growth rates for output and trade over the business cycle ( would ) be higher than they ( had ) been since the outset of economic difficulties in the late 1960s and early 1970s ' .
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