Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Visually , this is a spectacular film , all inky images and achingly authentic period detail . |
| 3 | Of The Shadow-Line , a story still more autobiographical in its essence , Conrad said that he was aiming at ‘ the presentation of certain facts , which certainly were associated with the change from youth , care-free and fervent , to the more self-conscious and more poignant period of maturer life ’ . |
| 4 | During his second and more important period as foreign secretary in 1822 – 27 Canning went considerably further in this direction . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the first condition individuals that breed soonest produce young at the peak of a rich and often superabundant period of food production . |
| 7 | And there , lots of people and and lots of them actually they came from Abbotsbury and that all their kids were doing so well and then this period of a year , nothing ! |
| 8 | The hypothesis is that we have now reached the end of the particular combination known as Fordism and are embarking on an as yet embryonic and relatively unknown period , but one which has already been given a name — neo-Fordism . |
| 9 | Based on a novel by E M Forster and set at the turn of the century , this is an elaborate and visually handsome period piece . |