Example sentences of "[art] period [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the period 1370 to 1532 , 95 per cent of testators in Norwich left bequests to their parish churches . |
| 2 | The exhibition and catalogue concentrate also upon certain problems , essentially of authorship and chronology , which have bedevilled understanding of the period 1500–1515 . |
| 3 | Outer cases of the period 1725 to 1775 and later were sumptuously upholstered and provided with elaborate coffin furniture . |
| 4 | This suggests that there is a tendency to return to the parental home when a marriage ends , through whatever means , and this is confirmed in the case of separation and divorce by Sullivan 's ( 1986 ) analysis of data from the period 1976–81 . |
| 5 | During the period 1967–73 the difficulty of finding sufficient common ground between the belligerents , even within the terms of 242 , became glaringly apparent . |
| 6 | In England and Wales the crude death rate for the period 1840 — 45 was 21.4 per 1000 population ; for 1980 — 85 the equivalent rate was 11.8 per 1000 ( CIPCS 1989a ) . |
| 7 | A comparison between the figures given in the table and similar figures for the period 1947–1964 suggests an increase of about 25 per cent. , virtually confined to Chichester and Rye Harbour gravel pits and clearly correlated with the increase of water available as digging progressed . |
| 8 | This time , the results are not quite so clear-cut , particularly in the period 1982–87 when the apc rose steadily in spite of rising incomes . |
| 9 | It has been estimated by the CBI that in the period 1979–91 an average of only 40% of firms were working at full capacity . |
| 10 | Until 1960 des Forges and Harber gave about 60 records records for the period late May to early November ; most reports were for June , September and October . |
| 11 | If the years 1829–49 show Beecroft 's genius for winning the friendship and respect of Africans , the period 1849–54 reveals him as a forceful interventionist , determined to establish British paramountcy over what was eventually destined to become the colony of Nigeria . |
| 12 | This is the position apparently held by various government ministers in the period 1979-81 , when sterling was allowed to soar . |
| 13 | In studying the period 1968–77 , Davies and Caves ( 1987 ) had argued that it was the conjunction of British managerial weakness and labour organization in large plants which led to the traditional national problem of low productivity . |
| 14 | Most economists are agreed that the period 1948 to 1973 was one of increasing world prosperity . |
| 15 | Although these figures suggest some recent increase , as des Forges and Harber record only about 40 for the period 1950 to 1960 , this would easily be accounted for by the great increase in regular observations at the coast . |
| 16 | Taking the period 1950 — 52 as the standard , the SMR for England and Wales has decreased from 249 ( 1901–04 ) to 75 ( 1980 — 84 ) ( OPCS 1989a ) . |
| 17 | Focusing on the period 1950 to 1983 , this project explores the dynamics of the voting act in British parliamentary elections by means of aggregate data analysis . |
| 18 | The primary objectives of this project are to identify the determinants and consequences of third world military expenditure over the period 1950 to the present . |
| 19 | The report also pointed out that the average life expectancy in the developing world had risen from 46 to 62 in the period 1962-87 , while infant mortality had dropped by 50 per cent . |
| 20 | Taking the period 1960–80 for the United States , he estimated that if during these twenty years no-one died ( a most extreme assumption ) before reaching the retirement age of 65 , then the labour force would be 4.8 per cent bigger than projected and the growth rate of national product would be 0.20 per cent higher per annum . |
| 21 | Mushkin attempted this by using the same methodology that Denison used in relation to education and in relation to health for the period 1960–80 . |
| 22 | using data spanning the period 1936–76 . |
| 23 | The growth areas over the period 1971–84 were financial services , with an increase of 11 000 jobs ( more than twice the 1971 figures ) , and distribution , etc. , with an increase of 12000 jobs , or an increase of a third . |
| 24 | The areas were also ranked according to the deterioration of their position in three constituent parts of the period 1971–84 ; Liverpool , Sunderland , Belfast and Glasgow appear in the bottom ten in all sub-periods . |
| 25 | The period 1966 — 73 saw both national manufacturing decline and spatial dispersion . |
| 26 | During the period new kitchen carcasses , stores worktops and the sinks all manufactured by Hygena were introduced into all out stores along with a number of improvements to our bedroom ranges . |
| 27 | ‘ Sam Velerisms ’ , as they were called , which became the basis for ‘ Sam Wellerisms ’ , were famous in the period 1831–6 , just prior to the first publication of The Pickwick Papers . |
| 28 | In the period 1990-92 there were more repossessions than in the whole of the 1980s . |
| 29 | In Sweden arrangements for the control of foreign affairs were complex and unstable during the period 1720–72 ; but strenuous efforts were made to improve them and Gustavus III 's coup d'état in the latter year increased their efficiency . |
| 30 | During the period 80 to SOMaBP it drifted rapidly at a rate of between 100 and 180 mm a- 1 . |