Example sentences of "in a period " in BNC.
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| 31 | The same was true of cattle in much of Europe at the time , and probably reflected neglected animal husbandry and a failure to breed selectively in a period when crop-growing was far more important than livestock . |
| 32 | Powder coatings , because they require no solvents , are environmentally friendly products whose market share is growing even in a period of overall slack demand . |
| 33 | The Fifth Congress document comments : ‘ We are still far from achieving the desired compulsory schooling as envisaged in the National Education System ’ , conceived in a period of relative peace . |
| 34 | Before this , in a period called the Carboniferous , the whole region was under the sea . |
| 35 | These new initiatives take time , energy and effort — in a period when all three are in short supply — but if heads are to manage LMS successfully , correct relationships based on openness , honesty and mutual respect must be established at the earliest possible moment . |
| 36 | It seems likely that a similar decline will not be allowed to occur in a period of world food shortages , and continued changes along the present lines can be expected . |
| 37 | But plunging enthusiastically into a too strenuous programme is often an extremely painful answer that may result in a period of enforced rest ! |
| 38 | Dr. Elliott detects in it ‘ a desire by the composer to accommodate progressive ideas about clear word-setting and harmonic , chordal idioms ’ : he has elsewhere invoked the violent and repressive political climate of the time , and seen an attempt by Carver to compromise — in a period of Protestant fundamentalism which had limited the formerly sumptuous musical presentations in the Chapel Royal to plainchant and Faburden improvised upon it — with the strictly harmonically-conceived music of English Reformation composers . |
| 39 | WITH West Indies cricket in a period of transition , the 1992 season carried added significance . |
| 40 | In a period of very bad weather , for example , especially in a rural area the post office may run out of real cash , as might other shopkeepers , after a few days without contact from the outside world . |
| 41 | Wealth-holders are faced with the need to keep as little of their savings as possible in the form of cash or current accounts in banks because money in these forms earns no interest and so loses value in a period of inflation . |
| 42 | Deciding how best to invest personal savings is far more complex and time-consuming in a period of inflation than in a period of stable prices . |
| 43 | Deciding how best to invest personal savings is far more complex and time-consuming in a period of inflation than in a period of stable prices . |
| 44 | It is equally true that firms and households are less likely to operate efficiently in a period of inflation , for a number of reasons . |
| 45 | Households will face difficulties in a period of inflation in allocating their incomes among goods and services in a way which maximises their utility . |
| 46 | Finally , in the legal system , the fines and penalties imposed , and the compensation payments awarded by courts , soon get out of date in a period of inflation . |
| 47 | Devoted to his wife , Julie , and a family who shared his passion for the Catholic Players , Michael was a well-known figure in the Amateur Theatre in Bradford , appearing in shows and concerts with the Society in a period of over 30 years , rarely missing an event . |
| 48 | The regions have to be abolished , the health service , education and transport broken up or privatised — and in a period when the natural anti-government reaction , allied to an already-perceptible bitterness , will produce hefty hostile majorities in local government , and a narrow Commons majority will take its toll . |
| 49 | When Murray Bookchin came clattering into our living room 25 years ago , in a period now seen with a misplaced nostalgia by the left , his urban guerrilla appearance belied his message . |
| 50 | In a period when , as recent events in Los Angeles and elsewhere have shown , the ethnic melting pot has dissolved into a racial meltdown , the clemency of clear understanding is as sought-after as ever . |
| 51 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 52 | The population of Britain was to rise from between seven and eight million in 1760 to 15 million in 1820 — in other words , it doubled in a period of 60 years . |
| 53 | Keen above all to protect the interests of the country 's farmers , and abandoning the doctrine of laissez faire in a period of crisis , parliament moved with alacrity to pass the Corn Law of 1815 . |
| 54 | They doubted if the public would respond to a call for a second general strike over what many would see as only the shooting of one man in a period of frequent shootings and violence . |
| 55 | J Wood in the Custom House and Silvertown Ward expressed the need to administer effectively the 1918 Education Act , 1918 Maternity Act , and the 1919 Housing and Town Planning Act : ‘ In a period of reconstruction only a majority of conscious Socialist and labour men and women on the council will have the determination to make West Ham a healthier , cleaner , more sanitary town to live in ’ . |
| 56 | Make repairs using glue in a period when no one will be using the stairs , to give the glue time to set without the joint flexing . |
| 57 | ‘ Perhaps they may think the sport is in a period of relative driving mediocrity , ’ answered Jackie . |
| 58 | At the same time we began another daily exercise in a period of devotional Bible study . |
| 59 | These sudden developments in a period of five weeks when Pons and Jones had been having discussions , culminating in the above public claim that could have influenced patent priorities , fuelled the suspicion in the University of Utah camp that they had been upstaged . |
| 60 | A big reason for the Penelope Spheeris-directed film 's success is that in a period crowded with pictures nowhere near as smart as they think they are — Paul Verhoeven 's lumbering , botched , thrill-free Basic Instinct , Robert Altman 's unbelievably over-exalted The Player — it 's the only fun in town . |