Example sentences of "as a period [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | This is known as a period of incapacity for work ( PIW ) . |
2 | Not to mention his composition Four Minutes 33 Seconds , technically described as a period of ‘ apparent silence ’ . |
3 | Throwing Muses are one of a handful of groups who write about adolescence as a period of maladjustment and withdrawal , who resist the now-pop version of youth as healthy , extrovert , unproblematic hedonism . |
4 | Criticisms of society in the previous century had cleared the path for a vision of childhood as a period of blessed innocence , before social evils could distort the child 's perception of the world . |
5 | His reign is often described as a period of revival of interest in Classical themes and modes of expression , but the profound change in the social composition of the court did not outlast the emperor . |
6 | In short , if life was always harder in the inner cities than elsewhere , and if conditions may temporarily have been alleviated by the impact of the welfare state and rising incomes , the last decade has been widely represented as a period of deterioration . |
7 | Typically , old age is viewed as a period of ‘ inevitable deterioration ’ and ‘ irreversible decline ’ , with older people becoming increasingly frail and sick . |
8 | This reiterated the belief , common among all those concerned with the youth question , that ‘ adolescence ’ should be regarded as a period of education , supervision , control , and guidance . |
9 | The trench warfare of the early 1980s was replaced by more subtle forms of guerrilla conflict , in which the guiding principles are no longer so straightforward , yet the consequences of change may be rather more significant , to the extent that the '80s as a whole might justifiably be seen as a period of structural change . |
10 | They 'll look back on that opening forty minutes as a period of massively missed opportunity . |
11 | 11.1.1 either party commits any material breach of this Agreement and fails to remedy it within a reasonable period ( which , where the breach consists of non-payment of sums due under clause 5 , shall be construed as a period of one ( 1 ) calendar month ) after receiving written notice from the other party , |
12 | This period of time has been described as a period of consensus . |
13 | The effect was to make it difficult for children to contribute to their own support , let alone the support of other people , thus removing the reciprocal nature of support between the young and their parents ' generation , and establishing childhood and youth as a period of one-way dependence of the young on their parents ( Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Anderson , 1980 ; Gittins , 1986 ) . |
14 | This period of the second industrial revolution is marked especially as a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization . |
15 | An era of ultranationalism had withered the fragile plant of democracy whose seed had been sown in the 1890 constitution , and the 1930s was interpreted as a period of aberration in Japan 's progress towards a democratic society . |
16 | Sleep can be defined as a period of reduced consciousness usually occurring at night , during which most body functions are slow or inactive . |
17 | Barry remembers his time at Ealing as a period of intense learning : ‘ It was very much a team effort there , with an awful lot of give and take . |
18 | Owens ( 1984 , 174 ) has commented that the 1970s saw a hiatus in recreation research as a period of evaluation replaced the previous period which had been characterized by : |
19 | Thus the path could be thought of as a period of price warfare followed by reversion to collusion . |
20 | This section has described the inter war period as a period of consolidation in social policy . |
21 | You mentioned er earlier the trade unions and er you mentioned the the er middle twent middle nineteen twenties as a period of industrial un un un unrest . |
22 | Wihtred 's long reign , though devoid of known incident , is distinguished as a period of close co-operation between the royal court and the Church in Kent under Archbishop Beorhtwald . |
23 | The nineteenth century has been seen as a period of transition from a largely amateur ‘ natural history ’ to a professionalized science of ‘ biology ’ . |
24 | Sixty odd years separate this work from The Birth of Tragedy and compared with a similar span of years since Winckelmann 's revolutionary study of Greet art , the later period , viewed as a period of German Hellenism , is anti-climatic . |
25 | Thus the process of convergence to the play in the full information game can be interpreted as a period of temporary reputation . |
26 | History will decry our time as a period of market soothsaying when it was believed that the market could provide everything and solve all problems . |
27 | After this phase there follows what Freud described as a period of latency during which the sexuality of a child lies dormant . |
28 | The relationship of this picture with that provided by Salvian and his fellow moralists , who saw the early fifth century as a period of destruction , is not immediately apparent . |
29 | As foreign issues have also grown rapidly following the abolition in 1979 of exchange controls , it is no exaggeration to see the 1980s as a period of renaissance for the sterling bond market . |
30 | Jamie and Becky Blandford made the announcement this morning , just two years after their wedding.The Marquis 's solicitors say they have entered what is described as a period of separation in their marriage.Their first child is due in August . |