Example sentences of "period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned a great deal during that formative period about what made people tick and one saw what life was really like . |
| 2 | I was up early next morning with a clanging hangover , and as I sat beside the bed watching Dana sleep , I wrote one of the several poems of that period about insomnia and my vigil over my sleeping friend 's form , ‘ The Lonely Insomniac ’ : |
| 3 | This is a period about which little is known for few records survive of those days . |
| 4 | Its mortality was still at the end of the period about double that of the countries with the best ( that is , lowest ) mortality rates . |
| 5 | For most of the period about one-third of those unmarried by age 25–29 failed to marry during their reproductive years ( the figure rising from 27 per cent in 1871 to 35 per cent in 1931 ) . |
| 6 | I chose to end the period about the time when the role of the Railway was beginning to be superseded by buses , lorries and private cars . |
| 7 | Unfortunately there is no direct evidence from this period about his personal relationship with either of his parents . |
| 8 | These powers date from 1954 , and reflect the exaggerated fears of that period about untried and untrusted commercial exploitation of the medium . |
| 9 | Well , I I I mean , it , it , it 's nothing to the stories that were circulating in the late Victorian period about the Duke of |
| 10 | During my relatively short period as a city detective , I was implicitly aware that quality had to be sacrificed to quantity , for the ‘ arrest list ’ was checked monthly and the numerical totals counted . |
| 11 | During David Kirby 's period as head of L&SE , the sector 's call on the public service obligation grant had fallen by 36 per cent during three years , and Chris Green 's task was to reduce ( if not ultimately obviate the need for ) the grant . |
| 12 | Far from the rugged nature of most combat sportsmen , he has been sidelined by injuries only too often during his career , though , in his eight-year period as Britain 's top middleweight , he has won two European silver medals , a world bronze medal , and two Olympic fifth places . |
| 13 | After a period as head of MGM UK , Korda reconstituted London films , bought and modernized studios at Shepperton , took over a controlling interest in the British Lion distribution company and purchased the Rialto Cinema in Leicester Square as his showcase . |
| 14 | I was once told that Philip Henry Thomas , while preparing himself for the Civil Service examination , had followed his period as a pupil-teacher with a post connected with the railways which were expanding rapidly in industrial South Wales in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 15 | In his Stormont career , and especially during his period as Minister of Finance , O'Neill gradually developed a liberal reforming unionism in which the pettier aspects of conflict between the two populations would be removed and Protestants and Catholics would work together to modernize the Northern Ireland economy . |
| 16 | In June 1561 , just before the personal rule began , Elizabeth 's ambassador Nicholas Throckmorton warned her that ‘ your realm is in no other case at this day , than all other realms of Christendom are ’ , by which he meant torn by religious controversy and conflict ; in the twentieth century , J. H. Elliott was to characterize this period as the decade of revolution , when Scotland was only one of eight countries including France , Spain , the Netherlands and England which experienced upheaval and revolt . |
| 17 | During his first period as an MP , he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mr David Mellor , now Minister for National Heritage . |
| 18 | Sappho 's name also functions in this period as a sign of transgressive female desire . |
| 19 | Any kind of working-class militancy tends to be presented in the fiction of the period as a threat to social order . |
| 20 | Federman sees the postmodern period as one in which the media have taken over the informational role of fiction , drastically reducing its status . |
| 21 | Throughout her marriage , and during a long period as a single parent , she was a journalist , editing magazines such as Honey , Over 21 , and Working Woman , as well as being Woman 's Page Editor on the Sunday Times and The Independent . |
| 22 | Pop music was going through an unusually bright period as the NME mentality turned chartwards and championed such acts as ABC , Haircut One Hundred and even Dollar . |
| 23 | He was born in 1678 , the son of a Dudley locksmith , and progressed to iron working through a period as a brass-founder in Bristol . |
| 24 | It is said to have been built as a smock mill but later , after a period as a dwelling house , changed to a tower mill and made higher . |
| 25 | But it was Arsenal , where Chapman had spent his longest period as manager , who held the limelight in the last years of peace . |
| 26 | Johnstone was almost certainly excused because a group of very vocal team mates under the leadership of Billy Bremner were exerting a powerful influence over Scottish footballing affairs , an influence that probably undermined and eventually curtailed Ormond 's period as manager . |
| 27 | To emphasise his authority the unforgiving Rangers boss exposed Roberts to a humiliating period as a reserve team substitute . |
| 28 | He is remembered for his period as a Labour MP ( 1964–70 ) partly because he introduced dehydrated mashed potatoes into the Commons kitchens . |
| 29 | A price index expresses the average price of a selection of goods in one period as a percentage of the average price of the same goods in some previous period ( known as the ‘ base ’ period ) . |
| 30 | Elwert even notes that there are Transylvanian villages where high German ( as distinct from the Teutonic dialects actually spoken ) was known before the Hitler period as Judendaitsch . |