Example sentences of "[be] [adv] a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The years 1945–5 I were not a period for new ideas , but for remedial action . |
| 2 | Thus , while the 1950s and 1960s saw a growth in employment , they were also a period of significant delocalization and the manufacturing sector was increasingly composed of ‘ branch plants ’ . |
| 3 | The 1890s were also a period in which deaf art flourished . |
| 4 | The seventies were certainly a period of great change in attitudes within the Customs & Excise in general , and on the cutters in particular we saw great improvements in many ways with the acquisition of better technical equipment such as highly sophisticated radio communication , and the development of international relations . |
| 5 | " The first six months at the ICO were definitely a period of strange readjustment . " |
| 6 | Thus , the search for jobs is not a period of inactivity — it involves finding out what jobs are available , sending off application forms , going to interviews and perhaps attending courses , all of which make job-searching a very busy time . |
| 7 | There is usually a period of mourning after the sacrifice of the animal or bird , and then a feast after the eating of the meal . |
| 8 | When a candidate is preparing to be interviewed ‘ on air ’ , there is usually a period of five to 10 minutes before the interview proper when a live satellite link will be sent back to network headquarters . |
| 9 | But the modernisation of Greece will probably come faster in the late 1990s if there is now a period of four- or five-party politics . |
| 10 | In statutory terms this is often a period of just three days . |
| 11 | In general hospital settings , there is often a period of staff overlap in the early afternoon , which is ideal for teaching and learning . |
| 12 | The first stage in its life-cycle is therefore a period of very fast or supernormal growth . |
| 13 | The eighteenth century was thus a period of slow evolution rather than radical change in military affairs . |
| 14 | The eighteenth century was not a period of gradual progress towards democracy in Britain , as Whig historians have tried to suggest , but of a determined retreat from it . |
| 15 | But this was not a period of straightforward centralized rule . |
| 16 | This was not a period in which the British suffered defeats gladly , however much their lack of preparation in peacetime might seem to invite them . |
| 17 | Indeed , in insurance the eighteenth century was generally a period of establishment rather than of rapid growth . |
| 18 | Since this was also a period of great affluence , it can only be assumed that the wealthy customers who commissioned the Kamares cups — aristocrats and priestesses among them — could now afford cups of precious metal instead . |
| 19 | This was also a period of rapid industrialisation , and hence a period of high labour demand . |
| 20 | But it was also a period of remarkable creativity , in which he wrote his novels Inclinations ( 1916 ) , Caprice ( 1917 ) , and Valmouth ( 1919 ) . |
| 21 | He describes this period of work as one of , of terrible strain , it was also a period in which he was personally very unhappy , and I get the impression that he really did use the best of his mind on this problem , and that for the rest of his life he found it difficult to press his thinking home with the kind of ruthlessness that many of the problems that he then assumed required . |