Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] period of " in BNC.

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1 ‘ That was because I came from the most stable period of his life and I made him feel secure . ’
2 ‘ It was electric — the most exciting , most demanding period of my life , ’ says Robertson , though he reckons that , as a vociferous , opinionated twenty-year-old he ‘ must have looked like such an arsehole ’ .
3 In addition to this decrease in size child bearing is now concentrated into a much shorter period of a woman 's life .
4 The nationalities concerned are generally Lutheran ( Estonians and Latvians ) or Roman Catholic ( Lithuanians ) by religion , not Orthodox , and they have been under Soviet rule for a much shorter period of time than most other nationalities , since 1940 rather than the immediate post-revolutionary period ( when communist-led governments were briefly established in all three republics ) .
5 An operating lease lasts for a much shorter period of time than the economic life of the asset and the lessor retains the risks and rewards of ownership .
6 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 .
7 If subject to stress for a sufficiently long period of time all ‘ solid ’ materials are capable of flow .
8 However , if gains are kept offshore for a sufficiently long period of time , the return on investment may exceed the increased capital gains tax liability .
9 In contrast , with pattern masking , subjects report seeing a crisp , clear high-contrast target for an extremely short period of time , too short for the target to be reportable .
10 It may turn out to be one or two meetings only or a much longer period of time .
11 The net effect of these changes is , of course , that women are relatively free of child-rearing for a much longer period of their active lives and are , therefore , more likely to seek paid employment .
12 This of course was not the main part of the work , but a pilot study used to test and refine some hypotheses about the wider sociolinguistic situation , which was then investigated more fully over a much longer period of time .
13 But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority .
14 Bureaucrats make bad leaders because they are indoctrinated to accept authority , so any period of their ascendancy produces conservative , unimaginative and unbalanced leadership .
15 A recent specialist Soviet study on Southeast Asia argued that the term ‘ neutralisation ’ as distinct from the related terms ‘ neutrality ’ and ‘ neutralism ’ contained the idea of activity over a more or less defined period of time ; it implied a process of gradual and progressive development .
16 In the meantime , the director who would have done it , who is a name director , has asked me to go and work at the RSC because she 's now busy for exactly that period of time .
17 The House of Commons Employment Committee proposes the establishment of a ‘ decade of retirement ’ between the age of 60 and 70 , which would allow people to choose for themselves when they wished to retire over this period of time .
18 TNC was given an astonishingly brief period of consultation while teachers were on their summer holidays in 1987 ; ISS was the subject of a year 's consultation in 1984–85 — perhaps too long .
19 After an immensely long period of feeble luminosity , the star loses the last of its light and heat , and becomes a cold , dead Black Dwarf .
20 ‘ The proved long-term risks of lung cancer — and the smaller risk of leukaemia , from inhaling it over any period of time — mean it has to be regarded very seriously . ’
21 Blenkin , for example , ( 1980 ) believes ‘ the most recent generation of teachers has worked through the most rapid period of curriculum development in the history of state education ’ ( p. 45 ) .
22 Its most likely period of operation is between 300 and 325 , whereafter some of its craftsmen appear to have been employed at Withington , and .
23 And a little untidy period of play but here 's Lewis to Ormanroyd Speedy sets it up for Greyson and in it goes again towards Agnew the captain and did that cross the line yes it 's a corner .
24 ‘ I do n't think this is an unreasonably short period of acclimatisation , ’ added Walsh , who climbed his first 8,000-er in the shape of Cho Oyu two years ago .
25 Of The Shadow-Line , a story still more autobiographical in its essence , Conrad said that he was aiming at ‘ the presentation of certain facts , which certainly were associated with the change from youth , care-free and fervent , to the more self-conscious and more poignant period of maturer life ’ .
26 A more active period of igneous activity in the Pliocene — Quatemary , involving massive emplacements of magma , caused intense folding and the formation of large thrust sheets in the Eastern Cordillera .
27 A second , more intense period of erosion ( unit IV ) is bracketed by dates of 2,53060 and 1,19070yrBP ( Table 1 b ) .
28 The difficulties encountered in negotiating all the necessary approvals , particularly the funding , for a scheme which departed from the norm of fair rent housing explain the exceptionally long period of four years that preceded commencement of the building contract .
29 boundary changes that we would like to have the full panoply of o o of inquiry a as the honourable gentleman knows , the the timetable was short here and what we had to do was to follow the model , er that had been provided by the last Labour government in seventy eight when it had a similarly tight timetable , took a similarly er er period , similarly short period of time er for the reviews and where erm the normal enquiries had to be dispensed with .
30 Sergeant Dixon ( stripes newly stitched ) was also enjoying himself , although initially he had serious doubts about whether he — or anyone else , for that matter — could successfully handle his assignment in the ridiculously short period of the three or four hours which Morse had asserted as ‘ ample ’ .
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