Example sentences of "in [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growing resentment against foreigners erupted in the summer of 1992 in prolonged periods of violence , much of which was condoned by ordinary residents , on the streets of several large towns . |
| 2 | Having obtained a measure of anticipated monetary growth , Barro computes the unanticipated component of monetary growth in each period as the difference between actual monetary growth in the period and the anticipated component of monetary growth in that period ; that is , . |
| 3 | Keith was able to appoint officers even to the coveted rank of captain , which was in that period for all practical purposes the ultimate promotion , since admirals were drawn automatically from the more senior members of the captains ' list . |
| 4 | Profits have increased nearly eight-fold in that period to £500,000 . |
| 5 | In that period of the early development of the state , the nationalist ideal was almost totally unquestioned . |
| 6 | The League of Nations was fatally damaged as a result of the lack of effect of their imposing sanctions on Italy in that period of 1935 to 1936 , and both Britain and France became concerned , particularly as they had thought , until then , that Italy would prove to be their ally against Germany . |
| 7 | The placing of the concept of the Created God entirely in that period of the earth 's history which follows the advent of life , means that science and religion do not need to be at variance . |
| 8 | In that period of about sixteen months , the level of prices rose by approximately 7,500 m. times . |
| 9 | We shall look later in some detail at how independence changed the media of Tanzania and Zambia , but first it will be helpful to consider what facilities existed throughout Africa in that period of transition . |
| 10 | What one is left with , then , is a particular correlation : alphabetic literacy , of the kind that facilitates unambiguous communication , is first found diffused throughout a whole society in that period of late classical Greece when the idea of ‘ logic ’ and other aspects of ‘ unambiguous ’ communication also first developed . |
| 11 | In that period of decentralized feudalism , one clan ( the Tokugawa ) usurped the authority of the Emperor and ruled over other clans within a structure which prohibited almost all contact with the outside world . |
| 12 | Now I would say to you , without fear or favour , that the only people recruited in that period of my appointment that I would not of had in the Pathfinder Force were people that came in through some rather dubious trap-door . |
| 13 | In that period of time we 'd have dropped from being the largest and preferred supplier to a minority supplier |
| 14 | What are your priorities when you try to assess someone in that period of time . |
| 15 | More than 13,000 new policies were completed in that period with new annual premium business increasing by 19 per cent to £7 million , and single premium business almost doubling to £57 million . |
| 16 | ( As an aside , one wonders if Mr Harrod would have written in similar terms about the work of the reference librarian or any other senior post usually occupied in that period by a man . ) |
| 17 | What what proportion of the fourteen per cent sales rise since ah Christmas relates directly to mark downs in that period after Boxing Day when you re- opened ? |
| 18 | The fall in this share from 1979 to 1983 was mainly the result of the nearly 10 per cent decline in that period in the personal incomes of government employees in comparison with incomes of employees in productive industries . |
| 19 | When its heroine , Dorothea , first entertains the illusion that marriage to Mr Casaubon will confer upon the everyday-the aspect of great things , she makes one exception to the frustration of her efforts as a single woman to lead a significant life in that period in England : ‘ I do n't feel sure about doing good in any way now ; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I do n't know ; — unless it were building good cottages — there can be no doubt about that . ’ |
| 20 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
| 21 | In few periods in early Ottoman history can that need have been felt more strongly than in the years following Ankara . |
| 22 | Local committees or associations fluctuated drastically in numbers in different periods of antislavery history despite the proclamation of the Liverpool society in 1823 that ‘ the present age ’ , in making the organisational discovery of the local philanthropic or reform association , had made the era noteworthy ‘ for the rapid and surprising improvement which has taken place in the moral character and disposition of mankind ’ . |
| 23 | It is relative to what we perceive as being possible , through our knowledge of the experience of others , or from our own experiences in different periods of our lives . |
| 24 | That does not mean that the law should change with every passing fancy — crimes such as theft , fraud , murder , etc. will never become fashionable — but ‘ social ’ crimes such as publishing indecent or obscene material are dependent on society 's perception of what is or is not indecent or obscene at the time , and the legislation of one period may be inappropriate in another period of time , to the extent that resorting to the courts to deal with the matter may be quite inappropriate and ineffective . |
| 25 | It is all too easy for accounts in this period to be dominated by two issues — the transfer of the British commitment in Greece to the United States in February–March 1947 ( followed by the formulation of the Truman Doctrine ) , and the angry Anglo-American exchanges over Palestine and the creation of Israel . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , though the currents of genuine popular opinion are now even more difficult to evaluate than they had been earlier , given the intensified persecution from 1942 onwards of even relatively trivial ‘ offences ’ of criticizing the regime or ‘ subverting ’ the wartime ordinances , every sign points towards the growth in this period of a ‘ silent majority ’ increasingly critical of the Nazi regime — even if the criticism was often only obliquely expressed — and ready to blame it for the mounting miseries of the war . |
| 27 | The ‘ Jewish Question ’ is not touched upon in a single major public address by Hitler in this period of the ‘ seizure ’ and consolidation of power — a time , as we saw earlier , in which his popularity was greatly extended and the ‘ Führer myth ’ massively enhanced . |
| 28 | It was also in this period of the early Sixties that he experimented with LSD and , like most of his contemporaries , used marijuana . |
| 29 | As a result , a number of fortified stations were built in this period of nervousness . |
| 30 | In this period of the last decades of the twentieth century there is much evidence of a decline in the standards of human behaviour , and this , unquestionably , can be attributed to faltering human consciences . |