Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] period [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter , the country experienced sixty years of stagnation , and during the period 1656–86 the national total declined slightly . |
| 2 | In Russia , rank-and-file wages were kept very low , and throughout the period Russian regiments supplied many of their own needs , a high proportion of ‘ soldiers ’ serving as tailors , carpenters , cobblers , and so forth . |
| 3 | In France during the most critical years of the Spanish Succession war in 1704–8 and 1712 , one in six of the male population was serving in the army or the militia ; and in the period 1700–63 about two million men were enrolled for military service there ( though some 300,000 of these were foreigners ) . |
| 4 | The Labour Party has remained a problem for socialists , as the experience of Labour in government after 1966 and over the period 1979 rather confirmed . |
| 5 | From the Radcliffe Report [ 1959 ] onwards , moreover , figures have been produced to show the value of their contribution ; and over the period invisible exports from the financial sector have been cast in the role of saviour of the balance of payments . |