Example sentences of "in a period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1991 Opening Shots Forum considers the opportunities for new directors in a period of great change for the film and television industries , but also in a climate of fast dwindling resources . |
| 2 | The New York stock-market had collapsed but five years previously , ushering in a period of need and anguish not only across America and Canada ( New York is but 400 miles from Montreal ) , but throughout Europe , too . |
| 3 | After the storm of the breakdown , Europe is in a period of convalescence , perhaps sedated convalescence . |
| 4 | First , he has enormous debts totalling $7.9bn at the last year end , which are an obvious burden in a period of rising interest rates , even higher in Australia than the UK . |
| 5 | Antonov , the Tambov leader , probably never realized anyway the strength of his neighbours in a period of chaotic means of communication . |
| 6 | The whole arbitrary system itself , which was a temporary measure of protection for tenants in a period of acute post-war scarcity , should be dispensed with as soon as the output of the house-building industry has regained a satisfactory level . |
| 7 | This study has the distinction of being both critical and radical , essentially turning the tables on advocates of the postmodern and reading their rhetoric as symptomatic of a conservative milieu 's interests in a period of overall stagnation . |
| 8 | £150 a year might seem expensive for an actress at the beginning of her career , but look what you got for it , and with Charles sharing the rent as well as the bed , what could be more acceptable in a period of economic pressure when whisky cost the exorbitant price of 12s. 6d. a bottle ? |
| 9 | The climate had worsened significantly for the remaining Jews in Germany following the invasion of the Soviet Union , in a period of stepped-up hatred towards the ‘ Jewish-Bolshevik ’ arch-enemy and heightened tension , as Party activists agitated with renewed pressure for action in the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 10 | In a period of ten years he recorded at least thirty proven cases of clairvoyance between himself , or his wife , and a horse . |
| 11 | For example , the analysis of stylistic details of the representation on a coin , such as the treatment of the hair or the eye , and its comparison with the same features in other well-dated art forms such as vase painting or sculpture , should enable a date to be applied to a coin series , particularly in a period of rapid stylistic change in the arts ( such as early Greece ) . |
| 12 | Health : THE CASE FOR NOT MEDDLING WITH THE NHS Whoever wins on Thursday , the only hope for the future of the health service lies in a period of stability , says Christine Doyle |
| 13 | Allying themselves with neighbouring tribes , the Nez Perce thwarted Blackfoot aggression in a period of desperate warfare . |
| 14 | They were a poor investment now in a period of inflation , even if ‘ free ’ golf was enjoyed . |
| 15 | In a period of change not everyone wins , and as the Club entered into a financial loan/supply of goods arrangement with Courage ( Central ) , Henley Brewery lost its unique relationship with the Club , although its beer is still the most popular one on sale . |
| 16 | For him it was a question of identity rather than creed and , particularly in a period of rising anti-semitism , he could no more deny his ancestry than change his name . |
| 17 | A typical building of 10 storeys will sway back and forth in a period of 1 second , giving it a natural frequency of 1 cycle per second or 1 hertz . |
| 18 | However , the return to partial Labour rule did not usher in a period of optimistic progress towards a settlement . |
| 19 | It may have changed hands as often as eight times in a period of twenty years . |
| 20 | Twelfth-century Germany was in a period of expansion ; the population was increasing rapidly , agriculture and trade were booming , and towns were growing substantially . |
| 21 | Powder coatings , because they require no solvents , are environmentally friendly products whose market share is growing even in a period of overall slack demand . |
| 22 | The Fifth Congress document comments : ‘ We are still far from achieving the desired compulsory schooling as envisaged in the National Education System ’ , conceived in a period of relative peace . |
| 23 | It seems likely that a similar decline will not be allowed to occur in a period of world food shortages , and continued changes along the present lines can be expected . |
| 24 | But plunging enthusiastically into a too strenuous programme is often an extremely painful answer that may result in a period of enforced rest ! |
| 25 | Dr. Elliott detects in it ‘ a desire by the composer to accommodate progressive ideas about clear word-setting and harmonic , chordal idioms ’ : he has elsewhere invoked the violent and repressive political climate of the time , and seen an attempt by Carver to compromise — in a period of Protestant fundamentalism which had limited the formerly sumptuous musical presentations in the Chapel Royal to plainchant and Faburden improvised upon it — with the strictly harmonically-conceived music of English Reformation composers . |
| 26 | WITH West Indies cricket in a period of transition , the 1992 season carried added significance . |
| 27 | In a period of very bad weather , for example , especially in a rural area the post office may run out of real cash , as might other shopkeepers , after a few days without contact from the outside world . |
| 28 | Wealth-holders are faced with the need to keep as little of their savings as possible in the form of cash or current accounts in banks because money in these forms earns no interest and so loses value in a period of inflation . |
| 29 | Deciding how best to invest personal savings is far more complex and time-consuming in a period of inflation than in a period of stable prices . |
| 30 | Deciding how best to invest personal savings is far more complex and time-consuming in a period of inflation than in a period of stable prices . |