Example sentences of "[adv] the period when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considering that this was just the period when women were making history , Thompson has got it very wrong indeed . |
| 2 | Strangely enough this was also the period when the Elves came to realise they were a dying race . |
| 3 | It is also the period when poverty in old age was identified as a major social problem and much surveyed ; and when geriatric medicine first became firmly established . |
| 4 | This is also the period when he hired as chauffeur and typist a young man , Alfred Agostinelli , who drove him to the seaside in a closed car , took him by the same means to visit many Romanesque churches in Normandy , and who was killed when the plane he was learning to fly crashed into the sea off Antibes in nineteen fourteen . |
| 5 | Is the Secretary of State aware that one of the most damning conclusions of the report on primary education which he published last week was the evidence that standards of reading among seven-year-olds have slumped since 1988 , over precisely the period when Ministers have produced one change after another in the system of standardised testing for seven-year-olds ? |