Example sentences of "[art] very [adj] period in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Happily only one or two shops in the group were affected by bomb scares , though the very wet period in the south and south west put shoppers off . |
| 2 | We first discussed the possibility of regressing to a very early period in her current life . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was a very difficult period in my career , and the problem with the transfer was that everything was done out in the open . |
| 5 | Rather , it represented one part of a very particular period in British history , and as such was ‘ one aspect of the mid-twentieth century rapprochement between the feudal paternalism of Tory Democracy and the Fabian centralism of Social Democracy ’ ( Gyford , 1985a , p. 88 ) . |
| 6 | The fact that bigamy charges were pending against the defendant in the forum Province was accepted as a valid reason in one case ; not surprisingly , a Saskatchewan judge was markedly unimpressed by a defendant 's assertion that he could not travel from Oregon because the trial would occur at ‘ a very busy period in the building industry ’ . |
| 7 | Thus , while the heavy organics industry — petrochemicals , plastics and fibres — went through a very bad period in the early 1980s and lost much money , many of the inorganic chemicals such as chlorine derivatives retained their traditional stability . |
| 8 | Since 15 million years is a very short period in terms of evolution , we have to conclude that there were some big whales around at the time of the catastrophe . |