Example sentences of "[is] [adv] the period " in BNC.

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1 This time is not the period required overall but the actual time the chemical is in contact with the soil and is known as contact time .
2 Recently , the Auditing Practices Board ( APB ) suggested in the preface to its Exposure Draft , Going Concern , that ‘ … one year is normally the period during which it is expected that the financial statements can reasonably be relied upon ’ .
3 It is moreover the period of the newly general modem meanings of ‘ the arts ’ and ‘ the artist ’ , as terms indicating more than specific practices and practitioners and now centrally including conceptions of general ( and then often alternative or oppositional ) values .
4 The period in which these ideas were becoming general , from the late eighteenth century , is also the period of the attempted distinction between ( ‘ external ’ ) ‘ civilization ’ and ( ‘ internal ’ or ‘ human ’ ) ‘ culture ’ .
5 It is also the period when poverty in old age was identified as a major social problem and much surveyed ; and when geriatric medicine first became firmly established .
6 This is also the period when he hired as chauffeur and typist a young man , Alfred Agostinelli , who drove him to the seaside in a closed car , took him by the same means to visit many Romanesque churches in Normandy , and who was killed when the plane he was learning to fly crashed into the sea off Antibes in nineteen fourteen .
7 This early period is essentially the period of Ramsay 's achievements in ‘ masculine ’ portraiture , in the sense of both the style and the subject matter .
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