Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the view of style as manner : I mean by ‘ manner ’ the way in which a text , or an author 's work as a whole , or the work of a group of writers , or even a period of literature , may be distinguished by typical patterns of language-use , a repeated preference , for instance , for a certain kind of construction or a certain class of word . |
| 2 | This was also a period of rapid industrialisation , and hence a period of high labour demand . |
| 3 | In order to clear the bowel for the investigations , Mr Reynolds had a low residue diet and then a period of time before each investigation where his intake consisted only of fluids . |
| 4 | He identified two periods — firstly a period of budgetary growth ( until 1976 ) , and secondly a period of reduction in growth leading to a standstill and in some cases cutbacks ( 1976 onwards ) . |
| 5 | We find social relationships simplified , while myth and ritual are elaborated … if liminality is regarded as a time and place of withdrawal from normal modes of social action , it can be seen as potentially a period of scrutinization of the central values and axioms of the culture in which it occurs . |