Example sentences of "most [adj] period of " in BNC.

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1 ‘ That was because I came from the most stable period of his life and I made him feel secure . ’
2 ‘ It was electric — the most exciting , most demanding period of my life , ’ says Robertson , though he reckons that , as a vociferous , opinionated twenty-year-old he ‘ must have looked like such an arsehole ’ .
3 Blenkin , for example , ( 1980 ) believes ‘ the most recent generation of teachers has worked through the most rapid period of curriculum development in the history of state education ’ ( p. 45 ) .
4 Its most likely period of operation is between 300 and 325 , whereafter some of its craftsmen appear to have been employed at Withington , and .
5 The most important period of this kind of learning is childhood .
6 The most important period of the 18th century was now at hand however .
7 It will be easier to understand the most important period of Coniston mining — the 19th C — if first of all we look at the way the men were employed and the techniques they used .
8 Yet the exchange had been all gain , for this became the happiest , the most rewarding period of his life , when to lose himself utterly in God and His Work was truly to find himself .
9 The inclusion of such relatively unimportant details would have given Wellesley a more human frame during the most formative period of his life in India .
10 Psychology has concluded that the most formative period of life is childhood , and in particular the first five years of life .
11 As she entered the most dynamic period of her career , Kylie took stock of the success — and tried to analyse the curious chemistry of the TV series that set her on the road to it .
12 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 .
13 The most romantic period of the whole adventure now followed as , often resembling a ragged beggar more than a would-be king , the young prince moved across to the west coast , hiding in caves and foresters ' huts , until at the end of June he made his most famous journey , ‘ over the sea to Skye ’ , posing as an Irish sewing maid .
14 However , these surpluses or PSDR ( Public Sector Debt Repayment ) shrank rapidly after 1989 as government revenue suffered in the wake of the most protracted period of recession since the Inter-War years .
15 Wimbledon v Manchester U That hard-won point at Liverpool a week ago must seem awfully distant now as Alex Ferguson approaches the most critical period of his managerial career at Old Trafford .
16 The early eighteenth century was the most successful period of the School 's activity since its foundation .
17 The most common period of time for this sort of agreement is three or four years , and the advances payable should reflect this .
18 Reflecting on the most traumatic period of his life , let alone his rugby career , he said : ‘ I just felt like a man reprieved .
19 Fleischmann 's entry reports ‘ music , cooking , skiing , walking ’ — nothing very remarkable here perhaps , but they helped to bring him to the most intense period of his scientific career .
20 Above the ground the vine looks dormant , but below the roots are going through their most active period of the year .
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