Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | On 7 December 1967 the Apple Boutique at London 's 94 Baker Street opened its doors to the world , selling all the bright colours and bamboozling gaudiness of that most extraordinary period in the history of fashion . |
2 | You will eventually look back on this seemingly grim period in your life with affection and gratitude . |
3 | Many of them have inordinately high mortgages around their necks and they are finding it extremely difficult to service them in this unusually long period of high interest rates . |
4 | At this very busy period of life , get all the help you can . |
5 | The example serves to show , however , that almost any period in history is open to you if the things that happened in the past set your imagination whirling . |
6 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
7 | ‘ It 's the kind of feeling that a new world has broken , that you get after any very long period of office by one party . |
8 | some of you are a lot younger than me of course , it could be a lot smaller , but er er showing this to teenagers , if you work out what age a teenager will be in the year twenty forty , they 'll be about er in their mid sixties so this period of time , basically , is the time over which our present er generation of schoolchildren will have their adult life . |
9 | It would n't be an exaggeration to say I lived for that owl during that very intense period of training . |
10 | However , it 's always nice to be asked , and since so much of life consists of filling in that essentially dull period between waking up and going to sleep , it 's quite exciting to be wooed in the form of a tempting jaunt-ette to parts foreign . |