Example sentences of "in a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1991 Opening Shots Forum considers the opportunities for new directors in a period of great change for the film and television industries , but also in a climate of fast dwindling resources . |
| 2 | Police methodologies of controlling the dangerous classes may well reflect that we are in a period which Foucault ( 1980 ) has described as the ‘ end of an historical epoch ’ . |
| 3 | The New York stock-market had collapsed but five years previously , ushering in a period of need and anguish not only across America and Canada ( New York is but 400 miles from Montreal ) , but throughout Europe , too . |
| 4 | This was in a period when I was based at Llandudno and every available minute of spare time was spent in climbing and scrambling among those delightful hills . |
| 5 | This is not only the temperament of the teacher : it represents also , with Pound , a passionate desire , not merely to write well himself , but to live in a period in which he could be surrounded by equally intelligent and creative minds . |
| 6 | After the storm of the breakdown , Europe is in a period of convalescence , perhaps sedated convalescence . |
| 7 | First , he has enormous debts totalling $7.9bn at the last year end , which are an obvious burden in a period of rising interest rates , even higher in Australia than the UK . |
| 8 | Ignoring attempts on his life , and constant threats , Wallenberg used every means possible to outwit the executioners , bribing Hungarian and German officials , threatening the Gestapo and issuing Swedish passports which , surprisingly , offered some protection in a period hardly renowned for respect for the law . |
| 9 | Antonov , the Tambov leader , probably never realized anyway the strength of his neighbours in a period of chaotic means of communication . |
| 10 | Yet the general position had improved enough for the government to proceed to its second level campaign — the creation of nation-wide cultural uniformity through mass education as the chief instrument of modernization in a period when technical means and financial resources were not as yet adequate for fast modernization through industrialization . |
| 11 | The whole arbitrary system itself , which was a temporary measure of protection for tenants in a period of acute post-war scarcity , should be dispensed with as soon as the output of the house-building industry has regained a satisfactory level . |
| 12 | The abandonment of the gold standard and the devaluation of sterling removed the theoretical justification which the Treatise supplied for public works in a period when bank rate was too high for purposes of domestic equilibrium . |
| 13 | This study has the distinction of being both critical and radical , essentially turning the tables on advocates of the postmodern and reading their rhetoric as symptomatic of a conservative milieu 's interests in a period of overall stagnation . |
| 14 | £150 a year might seem expensive for an actress at the beginning of her career , but look what you got for it , and with Charles sharing the rent as well as the bed , what could be more acceptable in a period of economic pressure when whisky cost the exorbitant price of 12s. 6d. a bottle ? |
| 15 | Indeed , trade union membership fell by more than 20 per cent , about 1.7 million in 1920 and 1921 , in a period when there was more industrial conflict than at any other rime in the inter-war years , other than in 1926 . |
| 16 | The climate had worsened significantly for the remaining Jews in Germany following the invasion of the Soviet Union , in a period of stepped-up hatred towards the ‘ Jewish-Bolshevik ’ arch-enemy and heightened tension , as Party activists agitated with renewed pressure for action in the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 17 | In a period of ten years he recorded at least thirty proven cases of clairvoyance between himself , or his wife , and a horse . |
| 18 | For example , the analysis of stylistic details of the representation on a coin , such as the treatment of the hair or the eye , and its comparison with the same features in other well-dated art forms such as vase painting or sculpture , should enable a date to be applied to a coin series , particularly in a period of rapid stylistic change in the arts ( such as early Greece ) . |
| 19 | Hynes catches adroitly the flavour of poetry and politics in a period when even poetry found it impossible to be politically neutral , and he writes perceptively of the underlying links between such disparate writers as , for example , Isherwood and Greene . |
| 20 | Health : THE CASE FOR NOT MEDDLING WITH THE NHS Whoever wins on Thursday , the only hope for the future of the health service lies in a period of stability , says Christine Doyle |
| 21 | In a period when the number of courses increased , WEA membership in the District declined by 150 and in 1931 , capitation fees from branches had slumped to a mere £44 . |
| 22 | Allying themselves with neighbouring tribes , the Nez Perce thwarted Blackfoot aggression in a period of desperate warfare . |
| 23 | They were a poor investment now in a period of inflation , even if ‘ free ’ golf was enjoyed . |
| 24 | Whilst fundamentally of no consequence , in that all Committee members were motivated by the Club 's well being , it was now a somewhat discordant situation in a period desirous of change . |
| 25 | In a period of change not everyone wins , and as the Club entered into a financial loan/supply of goods arrangement with Courage ( Central ) , Henley Brewery lost its unique relationship with the Club , although its beer is still the most popular one on sale . |
| 26 | For him it was a question of identity rather than creed and , particularly in a period of rising anti-semitism , he could no more deny his ancestry than change his name . |
| 27 | A typical building of 10 storeys will sway back and forth in a period of 1 second , giving it a natural frequency of 1 cycle per second or 1 hertz . |
| 28 | However , the return to partial Labour rule did not usher in a period of optimistic progress towards a settlement . |
| 29 | It may have changed hands as often as eight times in a period of twenty years . |
| 30 | Twelfth-century Germany was in a period of expansion ; the population was increasing rapidly , agriculture and trade were booming , and towns were growing substantially . |