Example sentences of "was a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a period during which lighting , which for many years had been provided by gas mantles , was starting to be provided by electricity . |
| 2 | In effect this was a period of withdrawal from a rigidly structured police world to a world turned upside down ; where , in a ‘ counter-cultural ’ way , we were to find that the strict terms of reference we had carefully built up over the years no longer seemed to have relevance . |
| 3 | It was a period of risk-taking and setting horizons for growth rates which were different to anything I had experienced before . |
| 4 | As Robert Wilson , an elder in the Rasharkin church , recognizes , this was a period of unprecedented interest in the Free Church : |
| 5 | For the District it was a period of the funded-tutor enterprise which was later to be challenged through the gradual development of a new regional policy by the Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board . |
| 6 | On the evening of Saturday , 22 October l966 , there was a period of free association between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. in D hall . |
| 7 | The result was a period of internal instability which did nothing to facilitate the attempts which were being made to strengthen France 's external position by a policy of military reform and rearmament . |
| 8 | This phase was to last a year and a half and it was a period of general ineffectuality . |
| 9 | This was a period of rapid development in the technology and tactics of warfare ; gone were the Frankish troops of the time of Charlemagne , who were expected to be riders , foot soldiers , swordsmen , spearsmen and archers all at once . |
| 10 | Some commentators — particularly Cockburn and Dearlove — have argued that this was a period of structural change in which local government became more clearly tied to the interests of capitalism and closer to business interests . |
| 11 | It was a period of intense debate , not only amongst politicians but also between many outstanding economists working within the Marxist tradition . |
| 12 | Following their disastrous showing at the polls , there was a period of time-consuming and bitter recrimination followed by a round of resignations . |
| 13 | With the start of the war , there was a period of silence on the religious front which lasted all of two weeks . |
| 14 | During the 1880s there was a period of particularly bad summers in the Highlands . |
| 15 | There was a period of unrest and excessive zeal , of settling old scores and family feuds — all very mild , really . |
| 16 | What it needed next was a period of stable sales . |
| 17 | However , for those in the higher echelons of government it was a period of seemingly near apocalypse . |
| 18 | It was a period of remarkable intellectual illumination ; a time when a new idealism and optimism transformed man 's understanding of himself , his society and the universe . |
| 19 | It was a period of penury such that James and his team spent one night in Pau furtively thieving back the petrol that had been stolen from their car and eventually hitchhiking back home via Le Havre , with no food on the way — and it brought out in James qualities of tenacity that he had n't really suspected in himself . |
| 20 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 21 | There is evidence for a minor advance in European glaciers during the period AD 700–900 ( Denton and Karlén 1973 ) and Tooley has demonstrated that there was a period of climatic extremes in addition to a complex marine transgression sequence at this time ; sea-levels rose to a maximum of + 1.2 m above sea-level in c . |
| 22 | It was a period of upheaval at OCU and in May 1960 ‘ A ’ and ‘ B ’ Squadrons amalgamated into a single squadron of two flights . |
| 23 | Some years ago in Britain ( 1960-75 ) there was a period of a much higher level of obesity in babies when the general view was that ‘ you can not overfeed a baby ’ . |
| 24 | The subsequent depression-hit fifteen years was a period of very slow progress in welfare innovation , particularly in the case of pensions . |
| 25 | Heidrick and Struggles had a difficult time when the founders , Gardner Heidrick and John Struggles , left the firm in the early 1980s and there was a period of turmoil until an international partnership structure emerged . |
| 26 | It was a period of great confusion and conflicting rumour . |
| 27 | It was a period of increasing devotion to Mary , with the establishment of Marian institutes and journals to foster it . |
| 28 | The Caledonian orogeny was a period of intense metalliferous mineralisation . |
| 29 | The reign of Edward I was a period of development and definition . |
| 30 | In the peak fertility years of 1961–5 the figures were very similar : 67 and 83 per cent respectively , even though 1938 was a period of ‘ low ’ fertility , 1961–5 of ‘ high ’ fertility . |