Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] period of " in BNC.
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| 31 | By the look of him , however , his chief had not perhaps shared a similarly successful period of recuperation , for he sounded tetchy as he picked up the brief note Lewis had left him . |
| 32 | It is contended that , at least where the interpretation of " the term " includes not only the contractual term but also any period of holding over or extension of the contractual term , this could result in the landlord being entitled to review the rent on the day of the commencement of any period of holding over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 . |
| 33 | labour turnover is reduced , especially by keeping managers in their job for a reasonably lengthy period of time . |
| 34 | The builder will not start more houses than he can reasonably be sure of completing in an economically short period of time , nor at a price at which he will be unable to dispose of them . |
| 35 | The most important period of this kind of learning is childhood . |
| 36 | The most important period of the 18th century was now at hand however . |
| 37 | It will be easier to understand the most important period of Coniston mining — the 19th C — if first of all we look at the way the men were employed and the techniques they used . |
| 38 | Yet the exchange had been all gain , for this became the happiest , the most rewarding period of his life , when to lose himself utterly in God and His Work was truly to find himself . |
| 39 | The inclusion of such relatively unimportant details would have given Wellesley a more human frame during the most formative period of his life in India . |
| 40 | Psychology has concluded that the most formative period of life is childhood , and in particular the first five years of life . |
| 41 | As she entered the most dynamic period of her career , Kylie took stock of the success — and tried to analyse the curious chemistry of the TV series that set her on the road to it . |
| 42 | What was true on the wider front was also true at a personal level : Layton was about to go into his most prolific period of writing , and the whole literary scene was being galvanised into a productivity never before realised in Canada . |
| 43 | The most romantic period of the whole adventure now followed as , often resembling a ragged beggar more than a would-be king , the young prince moved across to the west coast , hiding in caves and foresters ' huts , until at the end of June he made his most famous journey , ‘ over the sea to Skye ’ , posing as an Irish sewing maid . |
| 44 | Therefore this apparent reduction in their rate of occurrence is a reflection of the comparatively shorter period of monitoring during the procedure . |
| 45 | In the first condition individuals that breed soonest produce young at the peak of a rich and often superabundant period of food production . |
| 46 | What we try to do is to make available to people opportunities for study in depth and over a fairly long period of time , on issues and in subjects which are part of University activity . |
| 47 | Experiencing several such impacts in a comparatively short period of time might well be sufficient to trigger an ice age — assuming the other circumstances noted above were suitable . |
| 48 | But it might well be thought that if a procession has been regularly held even for such a comparatively short period of time , the police are aware that it is likely to take place , and it is therefore outside the rationale behind the advance notification requirement . |
| 49 | Some general explanation is surely needed for such a wide distribution of such a unique facies during a comparatively short period of geological time . |
| 50 | Penny left home at 15 and married at 18 , having a baby quickly — and after what she says was a fairly happy period of her life , she began to go downhill fast . |
| 51 | This should preferably be a fairly recent period of relative stability : since the base period is acting as a point of reference , it would be inappropriate to choose a period in which the price level was affected by any abnormal events , such as a war or a long dock strike which created a serious shortage of imported goods . |
| 52 | However , these surpluses or PSDR ( Public Sector Debt Repayment ) shrank rapidly after 1989 as government revenue suffered in the wake of the most protracted period of recession since the Inter-War years . |
| 53 | Wimbledon v Manchester U That hard-won point at Liverpool a week ago must seem awfully distant now as Alex Ferguson approaches the most critical period of his managerial career at Old Trafford . |
| 54 | The early eighteenth century was the most successful period of the School 's activity since its foundation . |
| 55 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 56 | ‘ The Home Secretary was n't persuaded then and there has n't been a particularly long period of time since , so it is not likely that there will be any review . ’ |
| 57 | And in the '70s came an even faster period of great expansion . |
| 58 | The school is based on the concept that ‘ Anyone aspiring to be a professional player can be trained to meet the vocational standards of the industry in a dramatically short period of time ’ , a statement guaranteed to raise optimism in any potential student . |
| 59 | Okay , yeah , that 's right , this s this series a particularly volatile period of economic history in the nineteen thirties , the Great Depression , in addition what 's at the end of the series ? |
| 60 | Hilton sees this destruction as a continual process , but he also recognises in it a major stage that other mystics call the " dark night of the senses " a particularly sharp period of suffering during which the will is firmly dislodged from false values and reoriented towards God . |