Example sentences of "[prep] an [adv] [adj] period " in BNC.

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1 After an immensely long period of feeble luminosity , the star loses the last of its light and heat , and becomes a cold , dead Black Dwarf .
2 Having the added bonus of a symbiosis with Richard Martin , but with the advantage of handling the first few episodes himself , Barry 's memory is of an intensely creative period in the weeks before his first studio session on ‘ The Daleks ’ .
3 I was one of those people who went through an incredibly unfortunate period called puberty — basically , my face exploded .
4 Ask yourself whether you are going through an emotionally upsetting period in your life .
5 Pop music was going through an unusually bright period as the NME mentality turned chartwards and championed such acts as ABC , Haircut One Hundred and even Dollar .
6 Families can stay together through an extremely difficult period — but this can only happen if organisations like ACET are sufficiently funded .
7 He comes to us with a distinguished career in a technologically-orientated industry and I and my board colleagues look forward to working with him in taking AEA forward through an extremely important period in our development .
8 They had all reached that stage following a crisis , which can often be more difficult than the crisis itself , when it is no longer a matter of one superhuman push , but husbanding resources for an indeterminately prolonged period of stress .
9 In contrast , with pattern masking , subjects report seeing a crisp , clear high-contrast target for an extremely short period of time , too short for the target to be reportable .
10 In the event that it could not locate a world in reasonable proximity which possessed both a breathable atmosphere and acceptable conditions of gravity and temperature , a pod was capable of maintaining its passenger in a state of suspended animation for an almost indefinite period .
11 The builder will not start more houses than he can reasonably be sure of completing in an economically short period of time , nor at a price at which he will be unable to dispose of them .
12 But do n't forget this this is a very important time with the all the increase coming in they 've got a helluva lot to take on , not just learning the company but they got the new routes and everything and it 's going to leave I would 've thought very short in an exceptionally busy period
13 Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture .
14 The style of the élite was westernized , secularized , ‘ civilized ’ in an astonishingly brief period .
15 Unlike Hodgkinson , Lynagh and Fox have sustained their consistency over an infinitely longer period .
16 The furniture in the lower room , which in every respect corresponds to the upper one , consists of one chair , of most antique and unsafe appearance ; two tables , which may be referred to an equally remote period ; and a rude wooden bench , about four feet long .
17 In fact , of the four examples with saltires , it might be the last type C arrangement , with the mosaic from the site of Bon Marche , Gloucester , ( which shows a comparable simplicity of motif and mediocre draughtsmanship ) , being attributable to an approximately similar period .
18 The book traced back the history of the Teutons to an infinitely remote period : and it proved once more that the original German-Teuton race was the true creator of European civilisation .
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