Example sentences of "from a period " in BNC.
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1 | This is the only hope for the conservation of pubs from a period with planning ideas so remote from our own . |
2 | Europe is emerging from a period when basic political relationships had congealed . |
3 | The prescriptive monarchy of the United Kingdom stands constitutionally isolated in a world where some forty independent republics , large and minuscule , trace their historical origin from a period of rule under the British Crown in Parliament . |
4 | ‘ The songs on the first album stem from a period a year and a half ago that was the emotional and physical hole of my life . |
5 | They inhabit a world emerging from a period when human beings are said to have lived for hundreds of years . |
6 | Late last month , IMF managing director Michel Camdessus said : ‘ The world economy is emerging from a period of slow growth , but with hesitation . ’ |
7 | For a long time there was a tradition that the mill took its name from a period in 1629 , when The Crown had 610 guns cast for The States General of Holland . |
8 | Better management is likely to result from a period of careful observation and assessment , with considerable support being provided at this time through frequent contact with nursing and other ward staff . |
9 | The music , from a period of just over sixty years , varies considerably in character . |
10 | It is clear from Fig. 3.1 that the output gap has been steadily increasing in size since 1960 , apart from a period of full employment in 1973–74 . |
11 | Yet back at Pig Street the diminished family-Charles himself , Elizabeth , Sarah , Mary and young Ben — had plenty to occupy themselves with , apart from a period of mourning and an attempt to keep warm . |
12 | The Titfords were more than lucky , in a sense , to have picked up their legacies from Benjamin 's will in that year , since the nation as a whole was suffering from a period of deep depression following a boom which had peaked six or seven years before . |
13 | Particularly when he has just returned from a period of injury . |
14 | The work made in response to this moment often gains immensely from a period of marination in further reading and research . |
15 | This problem fitted the times , a post-Second-World-War Britain emerging from a period of austerity , concerned with increasing output , efficient management , the rational use of resources . |
16 | The painting is another brooding , haunted work from a period with worldwide , cross- cultural appeal . |
17 | They date from a period of cataclysmic turmoil , when Palestine was ravaged by war , the Holy City and most sacred shrine of Judaism was destroyed , all records were scattered and people 's memories of events were blurred or modified by more recent occurrences . |
18 | They may therefore benefit from a period in a convalescent home if this can be arranged . |
19 | The population of North Shields shifted from a period of very rapid growth to one of slow growth . |
20 | Thus Adorno 's major contribution dates from a period described in the previous chapter as one of relative situational stability and consensus , when , more than at any other time , the machinery of ‘ mass culture ’ worked to considerable effect . |
21 | On the level of social meaning , the transition could be seen as associated with the move from a period dominated by the modernist critique of mass culture to the period of ‘ post-modernism ’ . |
22 | Thus the silk industry of Valencia , frequently noted by travellers as one of the most promising features of the economy , apart from a period of prosperity between 1835 and 1852 , remained relatively stagnant throughout the nineteenth century ; in the late eighteenth century a technically advanced industry , in the nineteenth it could not keep pace with Lyons . |
23 | These paintings follow from a period of two years in which Chevallier examined the potentialities of the colour red . |
24 | This control group represents a consecutive 18 patients chosen at random from a period midway through our experience in 1987 to 1989 , who are typical of patients presenting for elective operation for ulcerative colitis . |
25 | ( ii ) where the specified event happens in respect of a beneficial owner of a share , a member may , notwithstanding sub-paragraph ( 2 ) ( a ) of this Rule , continue to hold such share for the beneficial owner or , as the case may be , his trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator from a period of not longer than six months from the date of the specified event ; provided that no voting rights shall be exercised in respect of any share held in reliance of this sub-paragraph . |
26 | Danish kings emerge from a period of obscurity in the middle of the tenth century , when a dynasty based on Jelling in Jutland , and represented by Gorm the Old and his son Harald Bluetooth , seems to have extended its authority over the whole country , which then included the province of Skåne in modern Sweden . |
27 | Like so many things in that world its origins came from a period in history where everything was deliberately hazy . |