Example sentences of "most [prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 2 | The Circular brought together a number of themes which run through public policy over most of the postwar period . |
| 3 | I spent most of the intervening period in the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 4 | For most of the post-war period the economy has been brought to a ‘ stop ’ every two or three years and managers have had to lay men off . |
| 5 | The first half of the 1980s did not see the same rate of increase in local and central government employment as most of the post-war period . |
| 6 | ( 1973 ) discovered , for most of the post-war period the political interests of both the Labour-held city authorities and the surrounding Tory-controlled shire counties were best served by restricting the outward movement of the lower-paid — considerations which , along with other factors , led to the encouragement of high-rise apartment blocks on redeveloped sites in inner urban areas . |
| 7 | The political environment in which Western academic studies of the Soviet Union have had to operate for most of the post-war period was built around several widely share assumptions ; that the USSR was a ‘ threat ’ , that socialism was a failure , that the Soviet state was incapable of rational modernisation . |
| 8 | Throughout most of the post-war period acceptance of the neo-classical synthesis by the economics profession was confined to the plane of pure theory . |
| 9 | In Britain , most of the post-war period was marked by ‘ Butskellite ’ consensus within the continuity of a long-established parliamentary tradition . |