Example sentences of "at a period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Thomas wrote these words in 1908 , at a period of comparative ease and tranquillity , when he had gone about the South Country these twenty years and more on foot , especially in Kent between Maidstone and Ashford and round Penshurst , in Surrey between London , Guildford and Horley , in Hampshire round Petersfield , in Wiltshire between Wootton Bassett , Swindon and Savernake . |
| 2 | Photography has reached its 150th anniversary and arrived , simultaneously , at a period of unprecedented diversity , distinguished achievement and fundamental change . |
| 3 | Within the earth sciences field at least , however , the data presented here show that at a period of declining career opportunities world-wide , universities were accepting increasing numbers of graduates into Ph D studies . |
| 4 | The Office hints defensively at a period of nomadic existence which was censured by critics as unstable . |
| 5 | Expelled from school at fifteen , she had found herselfstarting work at a period of full employment . |