Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] the [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the other two main additions to the new kingdom — Slovenia and Croatia — had been under the rule of Austria or Hungary for approximately the same period of time . |
| 2 | The true jellyfish spend most of their time as free-floating medusae with only the minimum period fixed to the rocks . |
| 3 | That figural designs began to occur in the west in any numbers ( i.e. not counting the very early example from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 ) in approximately the same period as a further development of figural design is apparent in the southeast , is an interesting possibility : this may also have been contemporary with the first appearance of fully centralised designs . |
| 4 | Jamieson ( 1986 ) in her study of working-class mothers and daughters in urban Scotland in roughly the same period , found that young adult women living in the parental home would take on domestic work to assist their mothers routinely and extensively , in a way not replicated by their male counterparts . |
| 5 | He preferred the furtherance of his own prestige over the needs of his kingdom — especially England , from where he was absent for almost the entire period of his kingship . |
| 6 | The philosophy of pragmatism flourished in the United States at roughly the same period that the social movements of Fabianism and New Liberalism emerged in Britain . |
| 7 | And each of these continued to be important throughout at least the inter-war period . |
| 8 | And , again , the monkeys , like ourselves , are still more lizards than anything else ; for , as Carl Sagan points out , by far the longest period of our air-breathing history was spent evolving through the Age of Reptiles . |