Example sentences of "a brief period [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A period of teacher training followed , after which Blamey returned to teach at the Regent Street Polytechnic where he remained , apart from a brief period during the war , until it combined with the Chelsea Polytechnic . |
| 2 | However , this outlay can easily be offset by letting the apartment out for a brief period during the peak season . |
| 3 | St Giles 's cathedral nearby is more properly known as the High Kirk , having been formally designated a cathedral for only a brief period during the reign of Charles I. It was here that Charles attempted to impose a High Anglican liturgy , virtually a Mass , upon a Presbyterian society which responded with brawls in the church and outside , still remembered as the Jenny Geddes Riots after a vegetable seller from the market who was reported to have thrown her stool at the Dean 's head . |
| 4 | Apart from a brief period during the First World War , when the Royal Flying Corps had use of the area inside the circuit , Brooklands was used continuously from 1907 to the outbreak of the Second World War . |
| 5 | This situation has not led to a decline in enrolments : except for a brief period at the beginning of the crisis , the demand for education has been sustained . |
| 6 | It is conceivable that Kim had spent a brief period with the CCP at Yenan in the later 1930s . |
| 7 | For a brief period in the province 's history , its affairs became entwined in the broader struggles for the monarchy . |
| 8 | The excavations , a joint venture between British and Italian authorities ( Provincia d'Isernia ) and directed for the last twelve years by the School 's director , Dr Richard Hodges , have shown that for a brief period in the early ninth century San Vincenzo was an exceptional place with far-flung connections . |
| 9 | For a brief period in the Spring of 1987 , London was the only English metropolitan centre with more than one evening daily paper — it had three — having endured five years when only one , the Standard , was published . |
| 10 | He has been Professor of Architecture at the University of Belgrade , and was also for a brief period in the early 1980s the Mayor of the city . |
| 11 | This is apparent in the emergence of the physical disk of the sun as Aten , first named as such in the Middle Kingdom , to the status of a great god for a brief period in the Eighteenth Dynasty . |