Example sentences of "[vb past] a brief period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Paul Willis , in his book Learning to Labour ( 1977 ) , noted a brief period of exhilarating freedom in the lives of working-class lads . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Slumptown is a community which experienced a brief period of industrial expansion before a rapid economic decline . |
| 6 | Silverpoint enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the 1890s when silverpoint kits , including specially prepared papers , were made commercially available by Winsor & Newton . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Juan José Arévalo Bermejo , who as President in 1945-1951 initiated a brief period of democracy and social reform , died in October aged 86 . |