Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] period in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only is it not recoverable but it has taken place at the most profitable period in the product life , before the adverse effects of ageing have affected its sales and costs . |
| 2 | Not only is it not recoverable but it has taken place at the most profitable period in the product life , before the adverse effects of ageing have affected its sales and costs . |
| 3 | He says that this is the most unpleasant period in his 25 years in local Government . |
| 4 | Chiefly the collection covers the period from the eighteenth-century until the early part of the twentieth-century and so covers the most interesting period in the history of the city . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He comes to us with a distinguished career in a technologically-orientated industry and I and my board colleagues look forward to working with him in taking AEA forward through an extremely important period in our development . |
| 7 | State monopoly capitalism is only one period in the development of capitalism and is not relevant to all advanced capitalist societies ( Poulantzas , 1975 ) . |
| 8 | For example , in the two-period model described in the previous section it would seem likely that if aggregate demand became more volatile firms would become much more reluctant to agree to set prices two periods in advance , and so perhaps they would set prices only one period in advance : the nature of price rigidity would change in response to a change in the economic environment . |
| 9 | The 1930s was the most crucial period in the whole history of cinema in Britain and America . |
| 10 | It pushes back , to a disconcertingly early period in Pound 's life , the first signs of that aridity , that closing of the doors of perception , which — drastically arrested and reversed though it was , at Pisa and through the first years at St Elizabeth 's — reasserted itself and wreaked the desolation of Thrones . |
| 11 | Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture . |
| 12 | The sack of Rome in 410 marked the most hostile period in the relations between Alaric and the imperial court . |
| 13 | Because the discussion of these criteria is associated with a fresh and more promising period in the history of memory research , and also symbolizes the point in my own research trajectory at which I switched from working on imprinting to an even simpler form of learning in the young chick , they can appropriately form the starting-point for the next chapter . |
| 14 | These developments almost certainly signalled the inauguration of a more peaceful period in Pictish-Northumbrian relations with the accession of Coenred . |
| 15 | Yet this was not only his most effective period in office but also the job he enjoyed most . |
| 16 | Certainly the happiest and most confident period in Firdaus ' life is when she can pick and choose her customers and determine for herself the relationship she will have with them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To allow sufficient time in the post for training in investigation techniques and the all-important legal aspects and also for the accumulation of a broad experience at this fairly unusual job , it is desirable to recruit inspectors at a reasonably early period in their career , especially if they are ultimately to rise to supervisory or management positions in the organisation . |
| 19 | Dr Alexandre was a privileged witness to what we now consider to have been the most important period in Modigliani 's life , from 1907 to 1914 ; that is , from his arrival in Paris . |
| 20 | A spokesman said ‘ This is the most dramatic period in ferry travel between Northern Ireland and Scotland and the best time ever for the customer . ’ |
| 21 | Mr was well aware because he 'd been told by the plaintiffs solicitors that the plaintiffs received terms for cover or to obtain interest on their costs , the plaintiffs solicitors wrote specifically to Mr enquiring was his offer in , in the sum of forty two thousand pounds , that 's er the possible agreed settlement figure for costs , er if it was inclusive or exclusive of interest erm there were some delay but er Mr wrote back in due course making clear that interest was n't included , I should also say that in Mr er proposed bill of costs he had disallowed interest for a fairly short period in respect of both the plaintiffs bill of costs and the defendants bill of costs and the plaintiffs solicitors do n't appear to have erm taken any point on that , but as I say it , the point as to interest was specifically raised by the plaintiffs solicitors letter and er I 'm quite satisfied on the correspondence that they when it came to the matter were seen , were desires of obtaining interest in respect of their costs . |
| 22 | McQueen 's most fruitful period in films had been in the sixties while Dustin was still unknown outside off-Broadway . |
| 23 | You will eventually look back on this seemingly grim period in your life with affection and gratitude . |
| 24 | I had gone through the most difficult period in an athlete 's career , that time before he makes the breakthrough , when he has difficulty in finding the right kind of competition , when money is tight . |
| 25 | As the Renaissance was seen as the most enlightened period in European history this was the style chosen for the following colourful buildings . |
| 26 | We might just as well ask why , when we try to recall visually some period in the past , we find in our memory just the few meagre arbitrarily chosen set of snapshots that we do find there , the faded poor souvenirs of passionate moments . |
| 27 | Only during a relatively brief period in the 1950s and 1960s did another form — the high-rise block of flats — become almost as dominant in new local authority construction as the house with the garden , and then generally in the more densely populated urban areas ( Dunleavy , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | Clearly , large numbers of new features were introduced , new types of settlement were constructed and new activities were carried out , but 400 years is a relatively short period in the life of the English landscape and to describe the Roman era as an interlude may , therefore , be correct in landscape terms . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | For example , even in the relatively active period in which Liebowitz and Horowitz were writing , only a minute proportion of total crime could conceivably be attributed to marginal political groups ' expressing themselves in conventional criminal activity . |