Example sentences of "at [adj] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm terribly fond of the book and it was very personal ; I just hoped that it would be personal to other people , particularly people at that same period in their lives . |
| 2 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 3 | As we discovered in Part One , many of the initiators of conflict in later life are learned and impressed upon us at this vital period . |
| 4 | At this sensitive period in these people 's lives , such modification can be misinterpreted by any one or more members of this group and may have repercussions in family relationships . |
| 5 | Usually there is family and peer-group support at such times but the book provides a privacy , an intimacy , that seems appropriate at this particular period . |
| 6 | At this particular period the administration of the Cutter Service was laid to an Inspector in the office of The Inspector General of Waterguard ( IGW for short ) . |
| 7 | And thus I can say that both on the moment of this resolution and for some time afterwards I had more sublime and happy feelings than at any former period of my life . ’ |
| 8 | More lives begin and end in those pre-dawn or pre-night moments than at any other period in our twenty-four hour cycle . |
| 9 | Asa Briggs , the historian of British broadcasting , has noted how changes in society — and trends such as professionalization and unionization in the BBC — have made ‘ governing the BBC ’ more difficult in the 1970s than at any other period . |
| 10 | Critical attention on the Renaissance during the 1980s and now the 1990s is no more disinterested than during the 1940s or at any other period . |
| 11 | The story of the Fens in post-Roman times is one of sea retreat , drying out and reclamation ( Fig. 62 ) , and , in studying the settlements of the area as Christopher Taylor and David Hall have done , it is important to know the position of the sea , sea defences and main drainage at any particular period . |
| 12 | Therefore there are now larger proportions of non-economically active persons in Britain than at any previous period in the twentieth century . |
| 13 | At any given period , their art will be on show somewhere across the world . |
| 14 | Metre , then , may begin in what stress-phonology makes possible at any given period , but it may end in " the foot " having coercive power . |