Example sentences of "[adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tradition of the ‘ Orientalist ’ station never died in India throughout the British period . |
| 2 | Although there was both urbanization and industrialization in Sri Lanka during the British period , neither of these processes were carried very far . |
| 3 | It is followed by accounts covering the main economic and social developments of the British period . |
| 4 | The decline of organized networks around the turn of the century was the single most striking change in patterns of cattle theft during the British period . |
| 5 | Therefore , it was not until 1890 that this erroneous period was revised , not by an hour or so , but to about 88 days prograde . |
| 6 | British Columbia , who fielded only five of the players that tackled the All Blacks , have acquitted themselves admirably in a four-day period that has seen them take on the might of the two Antipodean giants . |
| 7 | Birmingham Open Christmas provides three cooked meals a day over a four-day period , including a daily roast . |
| 8 | Siliceous spicules of demosponges occur in strata in Iran that may be of Ediacaran age , and claims for Precambrian sponge spicules need re-examination , especially as protistan biomineralization , possibly of silica , is known from the preceding Riphean Period ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 9 | Although the Hebrew seven-day week ending with the Sabbath ( the only day to which a name was given ) resembles the Babylonian seven-day period ending with an ‘ evil day ’ , there are important differences . |
| 10 | But if you are tactful in your approach in this touchy area , you may be able , slowly and Patiently , to build up for her a picture of a sample programme of meals for a seven-day period that would be low in cost and effort but reasonably tasty and nutritionally adequate . |
| 11 | Bearing all this in mind , it may be helpful to those who are still open to suggestions to try to work out with them some very simple menus for a seven-day period ; meals which will suit their pocket , entail little expenditure of energy , but at the same time cover all their basic dietary requirements , and which can be made tasty and interesting by the addition of some of the sauces , seasonings , and flavourings will which you can supply them . |
| 12 | — For a seven-day period after Passover the people are to eat unleavened bread as a reminder of the hasty departure from Egypt . |
| 13 | Payments of £6 for every period of cold weather will be paid automatically to eligible people as soon as a seven-day period of exceptionally cold weather is forecast by the Met Office or actually occurs . |
| 14 | All major political leaders in India expressed their horror at Gandhi 's assassination and the government immediately declared a seven-day period of state mourning . |
| 15 | Strictly speaking , it is not a takeover offer at all , but it forms one of the exceptions to the main prohibition in the SARs ( namely , acquiring 10 per cent or more of the target company 's voting rights ( or rights over shares ) in any seven-day period if the resulting holding is 15 per cent or more ) . |
| 16 | Mr Anderson said the factory failed to report the injury within the required seven-day period . |
| 17 | In a laboratory context , the isolation of the respondent during a T 1 — T 2 period of a few hours should remove this effect ; even changes such as sunlight may need to be eliminated . |
| 18 | It may be that questions asked at T 1 cause respondents to develop and shift attitudes during the T 1 — T 2 period possibly through private discussion or , if the study is sufficiently large , public controversy . |
| 19 | Plaatjes , who has given up his South African citizenship but can not compete for the United States until he has completed his five-year residential period next year , is the second-fastest man in the race behind Yakov Tolstikov , but his recent form is better than that of the Siberian runner . |
| 20 | Note : Where a residential period forms part of a course a higher fee will be charged . |
| 21 | This is despite considerable efforts to create innovative ways of developing teacher training in the post-independence period . |
| 22 | This policy was to be carried over into the post-independence period . |
| 23 | It was perhaps to be expected that during this post-independence period TANU and its politicians in Parliament would want to see the nation establish itself in a symbolic sense . |
| 24 | Prior to this , the post-independence period was dominated by the ( Marxist-Leninist ) Front for the Liberation of Mozambique ( Frelimo ) whose president was also head of state . |
| 25 | As in the past , the cost to the union would be high , and an enforced period of recovery and retrenchment would — not for the first time — follow . |
| 26 | In the immediate transition , industrial relations were in a state of flux as new forms of workforce representation emerged in a spontaneous way , with the semi-clandestine activists of the Francoist period playing a major role . |
| 27 | Following this , by employing modern anthropological techniques , the economy of this elusive period can be reconstructed . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , Matisse 's strongest period as far as the market is concerned , is that of the 1930s and '40s when he was moving towards abstraction . |
| 29 | In the medieval period the church was also involved in the brewing of its own church-ales , which were made on an occasional basis and produced a useful income supplement ; in late medieval times these were often served in the Church House that frequently adjoined the churchyard . |
| 30 | The first-years , after a first term filled with the medieval period and a second with the Renaissance , were now going to learn about the Baroque . |