Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] period between " in BNC.

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1 The influence this gave to the nobility was most clearly demonstrated in the role played by the élite Guards regiments in settling the succession struggles in the period between the reigns of Peter I and Catherine II .
2 He specialises in the period between 1500 and 1675 and is also keen on art : last year he bought a Van Dyck from Althorp when the Spencers put it up for sale .
3 ’ The policy of containment ’ refers to a period between 1946 and 1949 when the Western powers had decided that a stalemate had been reached , with the Soviet Union and that the power of communism had ceased to grow and expand .
4 For example , he may be told that his alibi relates to a period between 2 and 5 p.m. last Thursday , when he left the refectory after lunch and took a train to a named neighbouring town and visited a friend in time for tea .
5 The core of the book focuses on the period between 1660 and 1857 , when legal divorce was exceedingly rare and confined to the privileged .
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