Example sentences of "his [adj] period [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his previous period in office Kang had initiated a joint venture law which had attempted to encourage Western investment in the North Korean economy . |
| 2 | In a BBC interview during his brief period of freedom he had promised to continue campaigning for multiparty democracy even if it meant a death sentence for sedition . |
| 3 | That leaves Mr Brown , like many an ageing master-courtier before him , still stuck without a strategy for a graceful exit ; and , more important , without the legacy that his long period in power deserves . |
| 4 | Just one letter from Tyndale survives from his long period in prison . |
| 5 | In 1822 , following Macquarie 's departure , he was dismissed from the post , but during his short period of office he had carried out or initiated a remarkable number of substantial projects in Sydney and its neighbourhood , the most important being the Macquarie lighthouse ( c .1816–18 , demolished ) , the churches of Windsor ( c .1817 ) , Liverpool ( 1818–24 ) , and St James 's Sydney ( c .1820 ) , the stables at Government House ( 1817 ) , Fort Macquarie at Benelong Point ( c .1817 , demolished ) , and the Hyde Park convict barracks ( 1817 ) . |
| 6 | Early that summer the new curate took up his duties , and Father McGiff at last was able to sit at his desk of an evening and compose himself for his planned period of meditation . |
| 7 | Over his fourteen-year period of dependency , Steve became more distant from reality . |
| 8 | But , thanks to his handling of the Abdication , a glow of achievement had replaced the murk of anti-climax which seemed likely , during most of 1936 , to surround his final period of office . |
| 9 | In retirement , Muccio recalled that Rhee was very intelligent , determined and assertive ; he had reached the top at a late age and was too set in his ways , his attitude having been determined by his lengthy period in exile , amid the seemingly forlorn struggle to save Korea from Japanese colonialism . |