Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] period of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an immensely long period of feeble luminosity , the star loses the last of its light and heat , and becomes a cold , dead Black Dwarf . |
| 2 | Of The Shadow-Line , a story still more autobiographical in its essence , Conrad said that he was aiming at ‘ the presentation of certain facts , which certainly were associated with the change from youth , care-free and fervent , to the more self-conscious and more poignant period of maturer life ’ . |
| 3 | A more active period of igneous activity in the Pliocene — Quatemary , involving massive emplacements of magma , caused intense folding and the formation of large thrust sheets in the Eastern Cordillera . |
| 4 | The difficulties encountered in negotiating all the necessary approvals , particularly the funding , for a scheme which departed from the norm of fair rent housing explain the exceptionally long period of four years that preceded commencement of the building contract . |
| 5 | The most important period of this kind of learning is childhood . |
| 6 | Some general explanation is surely needed for such a wide distribution of such a unique facies during a comparatively short period of geological time . |
| 7 | This should preferably be a fairly recent period of relative stability : since the base period is acting as a point of reference , it would be inappropriate to choose a period in which the price level was affected by any abnormal events , such as a war or a long dock strike which created a serious shortage of imported goods . |
| 8 | And in the '70s came an even faster period of great expansion . |
| 9 | Okay , yeah , that 's right , this s this series a particularly volatile period of economic history in the nineteen thirties , the Great Depression , in addition what 's at the end of the series ? |
| 10 | By this time chartism had been dismantled ; with it went the first , and arguably last voice of mass working-class opposition to the state , and Britain entered into a relatively stable period of economic progress within a successfully reconstructed hegemony . |
| 11 | At Westminster , the government annually presents a package of spending and revenue-raising measures which parliament , after a relatively brief period of ritual debate , duly ratifies . |
| 12 | It has the rather unusually long period of 547 days . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These reflect a relatively late period of modest success for the town . |
| 15 | Here we report an exception : PSR1718–19 , in the globular cluster NGC6342 , is in a 6.2-hour eclipsing binary system , but has the relatively long period of 1s . |
| 16 | McKenna , recognising the species specific nature of the sudden infant death syndrome and the relatively narrow time range of the majority of deaths , drew attention to both the relatively long period of physical dependence of the human infant and the ways in which caring practices vary with historical and cultural contexts . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , they counter that the physical environment should not be considered a constant , even over the relatively short period of agricultural settlement in Great Britain , in part because of climatic change and its consequences , in part because of changes wrought by land use practices , and in part because of changed perceptions of the environment ; see also Prince ( 1971 ) , and Blaikie and Brookfield ( 1987 ) . |
| 18 | Nobody would argue that Britons in the decade 1982-1992 enjoyed living standards that 1930s world champions , Benny Lynch and Jackie Brown , would have regarded as being beyond the average working man 's reach , yet this period of comparative prosperity produced 11 British world champions : the greatest number per decade in British boxing history . |
| 19 | About 1844 there was yet another period of spiritual prosperity and in one year over 300 people found Christ . |
| 20 | Close beside Xi is the huge eclipsing binary VV Cephei , which has the very long period of 7430 days ; the next eclipse is not due until 1996 , when the magnitude will drop from its usual 4.9 to about 5.2 . |
| 21 | After the very earliest period of relative non-differentiation of functions , in which the ‘ literary ’ or ‘ artistic ’ had not or not fully separated out from the more generally ‘ cultural ’ , there had been this phase of specifically instituted artists , which should not really be described in terms taken from later phases , such as ‘ official recognition ’ or ‘ patronage ’ . |
| 22 | Those few brief months after their marriage had been a truly wonderful period of emotional bliss and happiness . |