Example sentences of "at a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although persuaded to drop this proposal , the brewery redecorated in the most unsympathetic manner , using metallic glazed fabrics and crude reproductions of Morris wallpapers and carpets — destroying any attempt at a period interior ( which the 1960s restoration had , ironically , tried to create ) . |
| 2 | He was himself later to acknowledge the inadequacy of a production policy that drew so heavily on stage plays , particularly at a period before the arrival of sound when it was impossible , for example , to do more than allude to the savagery of Noël Coward 's attack on his social set in The Vortex ( 1927 ) . |
| 3 | Edward Thomas wrote these words in 1908 , at a period of comparative ease and tranquillity , when he had gone about the South Country these twenty years and more on foot , especially in Kent between Maidstone and Ashford and round Penshurst , in Surrey between London , Guildford and Horley , in Hampshire round Petersfield , in Wiltshire between Wootton Bassett , Swindon and Savernake . |
| 4 | At a period when Residents had no clerks and were lucky if they possessed a typewriter , Lugard was listing some thirty different sets of records which either had to be kept or sent in , dealing with every conceivable aspect of a fully developed civil administration from postal matters to canoe registration . |
| 5 | They contrast his intention to supersede capitalists and managers by the elected representatives of voluntary and sectional associations of producers with ‘ the modern Socialist proposal to substitute the officials of the Municipality or State ’ which would , they recognise , have been ‘ unthinkable at a period when all local governing bodies were notoriously inefficient and corrupt and Parliament practically an oligarchy ’ . |
| 6 | At a period when I kept house in France and could lay hands on the Gruyère of the Comté I used on occasion to cook a similar version . |
| 7 | These high earnings , however confounded the directors , as he achieved them while the markets were quiet , and while business was usually slow , at a period when morale was low from the market crash a few months earlier . |
| 8 | Photography has reached its 150th anniversary and arrived , simultaneously , at a period of unprecedented diversity , distinguished achievement and fundamental change . |
| 9 | White nephrite rings were already being distributed , presumably from this source , as far west as Seima near Gorki at the confluence of the Oka and the Volga at a period broadly contemporary with the Shang dynasty . |
| 10 | ‘ Every estate which must expire at a period certain and prefixed , by whatever words created , is an estate for years . |
| 11 | And it was done like this , this was done at a period when this church was changing from a Roman Catholic church The the window the original glass in this was a massive stained glass window of the crucifixion , and that had been put there in the fifteenth century by a Lord Mayor of York who was very wealthy and very religious and he wanted to show how wealthy and religious he was by pu er donating this window to the church . |
| 12 | I first came under him at a period in his life when he was abandoning the piano . |
| 13 | This study examines these contrasts in detail , at a period when the Stock Exchange in London is introducing great reforms . |
| 14 | Within the earth sciences field at least , however , the data presented here show that at a period of declining career opportunities world-wide , universities were accepting increasing numbers of graduates into Ph D studies . |
| 15 | In the circumstances in which they were used they powerfully augmented other forces of change by providing data on the state of society at a period when so little was known . |
| 16 | The Office hints defensively at a period of nomadic existence which was censured by critics as unstable . |
| 17 | Expelled from school at fifteen , she had found herselfstarting work at a period of full employment . |