Example sentences of "a [adv] [adj] period [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly 600 years after the first building it was to suffer a most ignoble period for the old building , within whose walls had been seen some of the highest in the land , was to become a Workhouse . |
| 2 | In addition to this decrease in size child bearing is now concentrated into a much shorter period of a woman 's life . |
| 3 | I remember a graphic example of this when I was working for a blessedly short period as a Russian interpreter in Berlin in 1946 . |
| 4 | Scotland has had a fairly successful period over the past two or three years and some think that we might not now be so successful — but there is a lot of talent up here . |
| 5 | Of course ; the film was just one minuscule component of a particularly significant period of the last half-century , at a time when many millions of people still viewed film and pop stars as providers of some kind of visionary lead . |
| 6 | Only when this phase has been completed , and perhaps only for a relatively brief period at the height of a crisis , can a second phase of overt conflict between proletarians and capitalists become manifest ( Przeworski , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | Only during a relatively brief period in the 1950s and 1960s did another form — the high-rise block of flats — become almost as dominant in new local authority construction as the house with the garden , and then generally in the more densely populated urban areas ( Dunleavy , 1981 ) . |
| 8 | Clearly , large numbers of new features were introduced , new types of settlement were constructed and new activities were carried out , but 400 years is a relatively short period in the life of the English landscape and to describe the Roman era as an interlude may , therefore , be correct in landscape terms . |
| 9 | The LDP fear that an attempt to phase out whaling , even for a theoretically temporary period of a moratorium , would lose them the support of the fishing communities . |
| 10 | I do think there are problems and difficulties , I do n't think it will be easy , not least because we do n't have a shared morality and a shared consensus , on the objectives for the voluntary sector , but it is a set of concerns which we must address , er , and I believe that if , if I 've done nothing else today , I 've kicked off a debate , or I 've contributed to a debate which was already rolling , erm , and that we must address those difficulties , and try and find ways through them , because there are opportunities as well as threats in the current situation and I believe we have to look at all of those er , so that we can move into the nineteen nineties which I believe will be a very exciting period for the voluntary sector , and one which the voluntary sector should er , see as exciting , grab the opportunities and move forward . |
| 11 | The fact that bigamy charges were pending against the defendant in the forum Province was accepted as a valid reason in one case ; not surprisingly , a Saskatchewan judge was markedly unimpressed by a defendant 's assertion that he could not travel from Oregon because the trial would occur at ‘ a very busy period in the building industry ’ . |
| 12 | Thus , while the heavy organics industry — petrochemicals , plastics and fibres — went through a very bad period in the early 1980s and lost much money , many of the inorganic chemicals such as chlorine derivatives retained their traditional stability . |