Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not yet clear whether this is the beginning of significant changes , or merely another short-lived period of interest . |
| 2 | Problems arise , however , when it becomes impossible to allow a long enough fallow period between cropping for the forest to redevelop and thus restore the nutrient content of the ecosystem . |
| 3 | This was perhaps the most violent 2-year period in American industrial-relations history . |
| 4 | For practical purposes the easily observable amenorrhoeic period can be taken as a proxy for the anovulatory period , though ovulation can precede the first menstruation after birth , so that women may become pregnant during the amenorrhoeic period . |
| 5 | The star lot was Picasso 's most famous Blue Period etching , Le Repas Frugal of 1904 , at 61.6m yen ( £275,369 ) , three times pre-sale estimate . |
| 6 | It was also this same period — primarily the 1960s — that witnessed the academic upsurge in the human capital theory . |
| 7 | England , on the other hand , had a comparatively short Romanesque period of development following an extensive Saxon one but a very long and a unique building period in Gothic architecture emerging into a tardy Renaissance , nearly the last in Europe except for that of the Iberian peninsula . |
| 8 | At the end of the supposedly final two-year period , considerable pressure by Helen Stocks and A. S. Firth , then General Secretary of the WEA , led to a further renewal by a somewhat reluctant Cassell Trust for another three years . |
| 9 | Even when a decision is taken , nothing much is expected to change in the short term as in all probability there will be a fairly lengthy transitional period . |
| 10 | Even this short period spent in Stages and 4 may be an overestimate . |
| 11 | So there undoubtedly a temptation to think , well let's not bother about that , let's pick them up when they are two years old and they 've survived this particularly hazardous first period . |
| 12 | The most common statutory period for the challenge of administrative decisions is six weeks . |
| 13 | A stagnant market and trade rivalries in the early 1620s were followed by expansion in the later 1620s ( between 1625 and 1629 Browne 's sales to the Crown were over £4,300 per annum ) , and then another slow period in the early 1630s . |
| 14 | In English literature all Stage II students are required to study linked core and options modules from at least one historical period . |
| 15 | Her achievement of 144 points out of a possible 150 tied with those of a boy from the choir school at Durham as the highest marks recorded at the grade in the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 's most recent examining period . |
| 16 | Unbelievably , M4 was allowed to rise at a rate of 17.7 per cent in the most recent six-month period . |
| 17 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many days were lost in industrial disputes in the most recent 12-month period for which figures are available . |
| 18 | Curiously this dead period in Paris , when the city was preoccupied with war , coincided with a time of intense growth and change for Modigliani . |
| 19 | From 1970 to 1975 , the planting of new vineyards was particularly hectic and the figures for 1982–5 are but an indication of yet another intensive period of viticultivating new land within the delimited region . |
| 20 | has been considerable , Chairman my one concern which has in fact shared by Mrs as Mr referred in , in his letter is erm how long is this experiment should run for erm how long five point seven the first of three months , although the wording is n't , it is in fact half the recommendation , I would want to er agree with Mrs suggest that this be six months , erm because three months particularly in the winter months ca n't , ca n't really be considered a very thorough experimental period . |