Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stood out like a beacon in that rather murky period . |
| 2 | On 7 December 1967 the Apple Boutique at London 's 94 Baker Street opened its doors to the world , selling all the bright colours and bamboozling gaudiness of that most extraordinary period in the history of fashion . |
| 3 | Apart from that somewhat exceptional period , in which members of these magnates ' entourages were rewarded with Gascon pos-itions , the great majority of local offices in the administration were tena-ciously held by the Gascon nobility . |
| 4 | The medical name for the start of this most fertile period is ovulation and occurs when a mature egg is released from the ovaries , ready to be fertilised . |
| 5 | During this rather curious period when one 's thoughts are free to wander we are sometimes aware that the quality of sensation we are used to when awake has changed . |
| 6 | ‘ They are now being reasserted in this highly reactionary period ’ , he says . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , this roughly delineated period did see major transformations in the role of sexuality , and the book , as a whole , traces some of the major shifts in this process . |
| 8 | You will eventually look back on this seemingly grim period in your life with affection and gratitude . |
| 9 | This all-too brief period was over , and now on the fifth day after his return , the only partly healed Angel One was standing in the death arena , sword in hand , preparing to fight for his life . |
| 10 | Many of them have inordinately high mortgages around their necks and they are finding it extremely difficult to service them in this unusually long period of high interest rates . |
| 11 | At this very busy period of life , get all the help you can . |
| 12 | The example serves to show , however , that almost any period in history is open to you if the things that happened in the past set your imagination whirling . |
| 13 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's the kind of feeling that a new world has broken , that you get after any very long period of office by one party . |
| 15 | some of you are a lot younger than me of course , it could be a lot smaller , but er er showing this to teenagers , if you work out what age a teenager will be in the year twenty forty , they 'll be about er in their mid sixties so this period of time , basically , is the time over which our present er generation of schoolchildren will have their adult life . |
| 16 | It would n't be an exaggeration to say I lived for that owl during that very intense period of training . |
| 17 | However , it 's always nice to be asked , and since so much of life consists of filling in that essentially dull period between waking up and going to sleep , it 's quite exciting to be wooed in the form of a tempting jaunt-ette to parts foreign . |
| 18 | ACT carried back is offset as far as possible against the most recent period first and then the next most recent period , and so on until the claim is exhausted or the six year time limit is reached . |