Example sentences of "[verb] a brief period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This school had enjoyed a brief period of success and national distinction in the first decade of the sixteenth century under the Mastership of John Stanbridge , who was well known when he migrated north from Oxford and whose Grammar was prescribed in the statutes of Manchester Grammar School . |
| 2 | Even now , and though the events of June triggered a brief period of reappraisal , the British still seem besotted by their vision of China as a billion-strong market for their goods and services — and either unaware , or unimpressed , that their exports to Hong Kong itself are currently worth three times as much as those to its northern neighbour . |
| 3 | Paul Willis , in his book Learning to Labour ( 1977 ) , noted a brief period of exhilarating freedom in the lives of working-class lads . |
| 4 | With the abolition of the monarchy came a brief period of rule by a Council of State elected by what was termed the Rump Parliament . |
| 5 | Manufacturing and mining made just as heavy demands on child labour , although here the problem was not seasonal but one of whether parents could afford to buy a brief period of schooling before the child entered full-time employment . |
| 6 | ( Duncan Cubitt ) Above : Warbird reflections as the fighter Collection 's Hellcat , a pair of Beech 18s and the Dutch B–25 Mitchell enjoy a brief period of sunshine during Sunday 's display . |
| 7 | Trade unions , on the other hand , after enjoying a brief period of vigorous growth in the immediate aftermath of their legalization in 1906 , were subjected to a variety of restrictions and reduced to a skeletal and precarious existence . |
| 8 | Japan experienced a brief period of European contact in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , but in 1639 the government of Japan , the Tokugawa ( Edo ) Bakufu , effectively severed all contact with the West . |
| 9 | Slumptown is a community which experienced a brief period of industrial expansion before a rapid economic decline . |
| 10 | Silverpoint enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the 1890s when silverpoint kits , including specially prepared papers , were made commercially available by Winsor & Newton . |
| 11 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 12 | Juan José Arévalo Bermejo , who as President in 1945-1951 initiated a brief period of democracy and social reform , died in October aged 86 . |
| 13 | It is conceivable that Kim had spent a brief period with the CCP at Yenan in the later 1930s . |
| 14 | Former Sun Microsystems Inc UK marketing manager , John Coon , is now heading-up Data General Corp 's UK marketing operation after spending a brief period at one of Sun 's satellites . |
| 15 | Following a brief period as a federation Indonesia in 1950 became a unitary state in which executive power resides in a President ( a position held since 1968 by Gen. ( retd ) Suharto ) who governs with the assistance of an appointed Cabinet . |
| 16 | In 1922 , following a brief period of Home Rule Party — Sinn Féin rule , the abolition of proportional representation in Northern Ireland in local government elections and a readjustment of the ward boundaries enabled the Unionists to regain control of the corporation . |
| 17 | But following a brief period of panic sales in the immediate aftermath of the turmoil of 1905 , noble land sales slowed down markedly . |