Example sentences of "much [prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was subsequently alone with him for much of a two-hour period when his condition deteriorated and one consultant thought he was going to die , the court heard . |
| 2 | For much of the modern period Japan has been a predominantly agrarian country . |
| 3 | Yet in a way it is a simple but effective means of analysing the subject since for much of the postwar period Britain was the leading spokesman for a particular point of view . |
| 4 | In both countries the high levels of unionisation and low unemployment rates for much of the post-war period gave workers significant leverage in workplace negotiations . |
| 5 | During much of the post-war period , commentators had drawn attention not only to Britain 's relative economic decline , but also to the dangers of the country entering a period of absolute decline . |
| 6 | At the level of parliament , the news media and opinion poll data , management of the national economy has been the dominant issue in British politics for much of the post-war period and however important it is for socialists to insist that ‘ the political ’ be given a broader definition , they can not afford to be silent on so important a concern . |
| 7 | Much of the post-war period was dominated by two highly significant sets of events , the Cold War between East and West and the dissolution of the European colonial empires . |
| 8 | For much of the eighty-year period which separated the Elizabethan church settlement from the civil war , the leaders of the English church made strenuous efforts to accommodate these two very different religious outlooks within its deliberately broad boundaries . |
| 9 | Led by Prince Iwakura Tomomi , a court noble , the delegation included Okubo Toshimichi and Kido Kóin , two of the major architects of the Restoration , and Itó Hirobumi , who dominated the ruling oligarchy for much of the Meiji period . |
| 10 | For much of the pre-1939 period agriculture was also a major source of exports , securing foreign exchange , which enabled Japan to purchase capital goods and raw materials from abroad . |
| 11 | His most enduring memory , which haunted his imagination for much of the inter-war period , was of his time as a nineteen-year-old officer in 1918 when he led an action to capture enemy trenches at Epehy . |