Example sentences of "not a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the search for jobs is not a period of inactivity — it involves finding out what jobs are available , sending off application forms , going to interviews and perhaps attending courses , all of which make job-searching a very busy time . |
| 2 | The eighteenth century was not a period of gradual progress towards democracy in Britain , as Whig historians have tried to suggest , but of a determined retreat from it . |
| 3 | But this was not a period of straightforward centralized rule . |
| 4 | The fact is that urban Britain faced not a period of standstill but of dramatic growth and reordering . |
| 5 | Nevertheless it was also not a period of stagnation in this respect . |
| 6 | The years 1945–5 I were not a period for new ideas , but for remedial action . |
| 7 | This was not a period in which the British suffered defeats gladly , however much their lack of preparation in peacetime might seem to invite them . |