Example sentences of "[vb past] a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the 20 years from the mid-fifties provided a period of only marginal differences in programmes both from election to election and between the parties . |
| 2 | Alfonso entered a period of personal success which nearly eclipsed El Cid for some two years . |
| 3 | From about 1860 the European agricultural sector entered a period of crisis in which the baleful influence of the backward Prussian agricultural system and its links with the politics of the Prussian east were made abundantly clear : the mechanisms which the Junkers managed to hide from the German populace were at last revealed . |
| 4 | Their social position also appeared to suffer a decline as education entered a period of crisis . |
| 5 | The ‘ Golden Age ’ of English agriculture was over ; after the 1860s it entered a period of decline from which it was not to recover until the Second World War . |
| 6 | The gap was re-opened with a vengeance by events after 1978 , when ‘ the North-South divide ’ entered a period of widening on most economic and political measures . |
| 7 | The Yugoslav federation entered a period of severe political crisis in mid-March , following the violent suppression on March 9 of an anti-communist demonstration in Belgrade , the federal capital and capital of Serbia , largest and most influential of the six republics in the federation . |
| 8 | With the election of the former UDF leader , Zhelev , as President in August 1990 and the formation of a coalition government headed by a non-party political Prime Minister ( Dimitur Popov ) in December [ see p. 37923 ] , Bulgarian domestic politics entered a period of relative stability . |
| 9 | The process of European integration entered a period of stagnation which lasted until the European Monetary System [ EMS ] came into being in March 1979 . |
| 10 | The original draft Section 50 proposed a period of 9 years from the commencement of the housing development in which the Regional Council would have an option to acquire the school site . |
| 11 | The course at No. 1 Parachute Training School at Ringway involved a period of initial practice on a variety of ground-training apparatus . |
| 12 | Locke , John ( 1632–1704 ) An English philosopher who in the context of his time ( and of his own life which involved a period of exile ) was a clear defender of toleration and free enquiry . |
| 13 | Thirty five children received a period of nutritional treatment ( 4 total parenteral nutrition , 31 nasogastric tube feeding ) . |
| 14 | Though state medicine suffered a period of retrenchment in the closing decades of the nineteenth century , medical research enlarged its scope and sphere of influence . |
| 15 | After the dramatic crowning of Charles — the first and last time that a pope paid homage to the new Emperors of the West — came a period of reinforcement of his new status . |
| 16 | The abolition of excise duty in 1853 heralded a period of growth and prosperity for the soap industry . |
| 17 | Good fortune was with the government : world economic conditions improved and heralded a period of sustained growth in industrial output and trade . |
| 18 | In a farewell speech on Aug. 28 , Pöhl warned that the German economy faced a period of considerable difficulty , as rising inflation compounded the already serious problems of funding the necessary investment surge in the east of the country after unification , and as the social transfer costs in the east continued to mount . |
| 19 | This allowed a period of one year for information on deaths to emerge . |
| 20 | Where Musgrove and John Hopkins , who put it all together , got lucky was that they chronicled a period of success that may never have been equalled , let alone exceeded , by any British golfer . |
| 21 | ( iii ) Some individuals , when eligible for randomisation , requested a period of time in convalescence before agreeing to participate . |
| 22 | The stability of sterling improved significantly following its entry to the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European monetary system in October 1990 [ see p. 37782 ] , but sterling experienced a period of doubt shortly before the resignation of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister in November [ see pp. 37839-40 ] , recovering strongly toward the end of January 1991 . |
| 23 | International financial markets experienced a period of considerable turbulence in the autumn of 1991 , as uncertainties grew about the sustainability of the recovery in the United States economy , and as fears were expressed that the German economy might also face intractable difficulties in meeting the costs of unification . |
| 24 | In the interim there existed a period of extraordinary cross-fertilization between Christian and Arabic cultures . |
| 25 | Rather than ending the discussion this decision merely began a period of three years during which the issue of " Unity " was rarely off the agendas of local Labour parties , trade unions and other sections of the labour movement . |
| 26 | He then began a period in which he combined private study and writing with public service as Commissioner of Appeals and of the Board of Trade and Plantations . |
| 27 | He indicated a period at the end of April , beginning of May . |
| 28 | There followed a period for the next 18 months where my family , having joined me from Yorkshire , came up to Scotland . |
| 29 | There followed a period of university teaching abroad : first in Lithuania , then in Bulgaria . |
| 30 | There followed a period of about fifteen years when creative genius became evident , such as the works of William Shakespeare ; Marlow ; Spencer and Ben Johnson . |