Example sentences of "most [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That was because I came from the most stable period of his life and I made him feel secure . ’ |
| 2 | Not only is it not recoverable but it has taken place at the most profitable period in the product life , before the adverse effects of ageing have affected its sales and costs . |
| 3 | Not only is it not recoverable but it has taken place at the most profitable period in the product life , before the adverse effects of ageing have affected its sales and costs . |
| 4 | ‘ It was electric — the most exciting , most demanding period of my life , ’ says Robertson , though he reckons that , as a vociferous , opinionated twenty-year-old he ‘ must have looked like such an arsehole ’ . |
| 5 | It was a most painful period altogether , and Ronald Duncan has described how Eliot , on his return from hospital , recounted in vivid detail the operation and its consequences . |
| 6 | NOWADAYS , CABARET Voltaire are n't drastically trying to open up new vistas. they just run the gamut of electronic dance music — techno , acid , ambient , the trancey bass-driven hypno-grooves — letting themselves be influenced by the most exciting period dance music has seen since ‘ 87 –'88.; |
| 7 | For Jean Rossiter it was a ‘ most exciting period ’ , for Maxwell Smith they were ‘ enormous fun ’ . |
| 8 | He says that this is the most unpleasant period in his 25 years in local Government . |
| 9 | Chiefly the collection covers the period from the eighteenth-century until the early part of the twentieth-century and so covers the most interesting period in the history of the city . |
| 10 | ‘ Twilight , in the absence of the moon , is a fine , a most interesting period . |
| 11 | The most popular period for BES investment occurs in the last three months of the tax year as investors begin to think about reducing tax liabilities ; the early autumn sees a second surge as investors can claim up to half the tax relief for the previous year on investments made before 6 October ( subject to a maximum of £5,000 ) . |
| 12 | Matta 's ‘ Théorie de l'arbre ’ , painted in 1941 , is expected to fetch $500–600,000 ( £290–350,000 ) while two paintings by Fernando Botero , ‘ The lovers ’ and ‘ Cat with green soup ’ , which date from his most popular period carry an estimate of $700–800,000 ( £405–465,000 ) and $500–700,000 ( £290–405,000 ) respectively . |
| 13 | Ages 20 to 34 years represent the most favourable period for childbearing ; ages 20 to 29 are the safest . |
| 14 | Thereafter guerrilla activity gradually subsided and the most dangerous period faced by South Korea from the viewpoint of internal unrest had been surmounted . |
| 15 | Møn 's most splendid period dares from 1326 , when the Baltic and Sound were world trade channels and the herring , according to the thirteenth-century Danish historian Saxo , could be scooped from the sea with bare hands . |
| 16 | But Richards , 49 , refused to reveal why timid Jack was the reason for the record , written during the band 's most tempestuous period amid drug trials and the decision of founder member Brian Jones to quit . |
| 17 | The 1930s was the most crucial period in the whole history of cinema in Britain and America . |
| 18 | In some of those cases , the most crucial period is immediately after relocation . |
| 19 | Blenkin , for example , ( 1980 ) believes ‘ the most recent generation of teachers has worked through the most rapid period of curriculum development in the history of state education ’ ( p. 45 ) . |
| 20 | Its most likely period of operation is between 300 and 325 , whereafter some of its craftsmen appear to have been employed at Withington , and . |
| 21 | The sack of Rome in 410 marked the most hostile period in the relations between Alaric and the imperial court . |
| 22 | LABOUR has begun its most intensive period for reselection . |
| 23 | Yet this was not only his most effective period in office but also the job he enjoyed most . |
| 24 | Certainly the happiest and most confident period in Firdaus ' life is when she can pick and choose her customers and determine for herself the relationship she will have with them . |
| 25 | Indeed , 1977–9 , with Roy Mason at the Northern Irish ministry , was the most unproductive period that Ireland had known , in political or constitutional terms , since the troubles began in the late 1960s . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It has borne his burdens , taken part in his wars , and shared his leisure pursuits but , incongruously , its most important period began with the start of the industrial revolution ; as man invented machines to revolutionise his industry , he found more need for the heavy horse ; it provided the means of transport and made possible the rapid improvements in agriculture required to feed the expanding population . |
| 28 | The most important period of this kind of learning is childhood . |
| 29 | Dr Alexandre was a privileged witness to what we now consider to have been the most important period in Modigliani 's life , from 1907 to 1914 ; that is , from his arrival in Paris . |
| 30 | An exhibition of Max Ernst 's most important period , covering his work as a Dada artist in Cologne after 1912 and in Paris in the years following the end of World War I , opens at the Museum of Modern Art , New York , in the middle of this month ( 14 March-2 May ) . |