Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] the period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considering that this was just the period when women were making history , Thompson has got it very wrong indeed . |
| 2 | Strangely enough this was also the period when the Elves came to realise they were a dying race . |
| 3 | This was also the period in which the foundations of sociology were laid . |
| 4 | Significantly this was also the period of Lenin 's importation of the terminology of ‘ avant-garde ’ into politics . |
| 5 | This was also the period beyond which the Tominah priests could allegedly no longer cause the dead to walk . |
| 6 | The height of the cold war was also the period which has come to be known as the golden age of capitalism . |
| 7 | Yet this was also the period during which the United States became the main supplier of the hugely increasing need for raw cotton . |
| 8 | On the one hand , it was simply the period required for the sun , moon , and planets to attain the same positions in relation to each other as they had at a given time . |