Example sentences of "his [adv] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Those who followed his career in television , from the role of humble assistant film editor , up through the features department of Granada Television , through to his incredibly successful period as editor of the BBC magazine programme , Holiday '76 , knew him to be resourceful , keen , and deeply aware , not only of the problems of travel — his chosen speciality — but also-of such things as cuisine and interior design . ’ |
| 2 | Yet this was not only his most effective period in office but also the job he enjoyed most . |
| 3 | Matta 's ‘ Théorie de l'arbre ’ , painted in 1941 , is expected to fetch $500–600,000 ( £290–350,000 ) while two paintings by Fernando Botero , ‘ The lovers ’ and ‘ Cat with green soup ’ , which date from his most popular period carry an estimate of $700–800,000 ( £405–465,000 ) and $500–700,000 ( £290–405,000 ) respectively . |
| 4 | Christie 's cover lot also failed to sell : Lord Leighton 's ‘ Moorish Garden : a Dream of Granada ’ was left unsold at £340,000 ( estimate £400–600,000 ) ; questions concerning its condition ( what would happen were the wax lining to be removed ? ) and opinion that it was a work not from his most marketable period seem to have dampened enthusiasm . |
| 5 | These were the years of ‘ Subterranean Homesick Blues , ’ ‘ Highway 61 Revisited ’ and ‘ Blonde on Blonde ’ , arguably his most creative period . |
| 6 | Wordsworth lived in Dove Cottage , a white-washed former inn called The Dove and Olive , during his most creative period from 1799 until 1808 . |
| 7 | What was true on the wider front was also true at a personal level : Layton was about to go into his most prolific period of writing , and the whole literary scene was being galvanised into a productivity never before realised in Canada . |
| 8 | His most active period in the Commons came during the three Exclusion Parliaments : he served on no fewer than fifty-two committees , involving a wide range of issues . |
| 9 | Maidstone prison contains one man who has already served 33 years and staff seemed torn between two beliefs ; one , that the risk he posed ( of further offences against children ) meant that further incarceration was inevitable , the other that his extraordinarily long period in custody meant he would be unable to survive outside the prison walls , anyway . |