Example sentences of "as a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is known as a period of incapacity for work ( PIW ) . |
| 2 | Not to mention his composition Four Minutes 33 Seconds , technically described as a period of ‘ apparent silence ’ . |
| 3 | Possessed of such , and revelling in the distance set between them and miserable ‘ pragmatism ’ , Mrs Thatcher 's Conservative Party can still persuade itself to see the last decade as a period when undeviating conviction wrought a miracle in the land . |
| 4 | Throwing Muses are one of a handful of groups who write about adolescence as a period of maladjustment and withdrawal , who resist the now-pop version of youth as healthy , extrovert , unproblematic hedonism . |
| 5 | Criticisms of society in the previous century had cleared the path for a vision of childhood as a period of blessed innocence , before social evils could distort the child 's perception of the world . |
| 6 | A play on mental handicap , such as a period in the life of a mentally handicapped person , or depicting the effects which a mentally handicapped child has on the parents , could be either an uplifting or depressing experience . |
| 7 | His reign is often described as a period of revival of interest in Classical themes and modes of expression , but the profound change in the social composition of the court did not outlast the emperor . |
| 8 | In short , if life was always harder in the inner cities than elsewhere , and if conditions may temporarily have been alleviated by the impact of the welfare state and rising incomes , the last decade has been widely represented as a period of deterioration . |
| 9 | Typically , old age is viewed as a period of ‘ inevitable deterioration ’ and ‘ irreversible decline ’ , with older people becoming increasingly frail and sick . |
| 10 | This reiterated the belief , common among all those concerned with the youth question , that ‘ adolescence ’ should be regarded as a period of education , supervision , control , and guidance . |
| 11 | The trench warfare of the early 1980s was replaced by more subtle forms of guerrilla conflict , in which the guiding principles are no longer so straightforward , yet the consequences of change may be rather more significant , to the extent that the '80s as a whole might justifiably be seen as a period of structural change . |
| 12 | They 'll look back on that opening forty minutes as a period of massively missed opportunity . |
| 13 | 11.1.1 either party commits any material breach of this Agreement and fails to remedy it within a reasonable period ( which , where the breach consists of non-payment of sums due under clause 5 , shall be construed as a period of one ( 1 ) calendar month ) after receiving written notice from the other party , |
| 14 | This period of time has been described as a period of consensus . |
| 15 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
| 16 | The effect was to make it difficult for children to contribute to their own support , let alone the support of other people , thus removing the reciprocal nature of support between the young and their parents ' generation , and establishing childhood and youth as a period of one-way dependence of the young on their parents ( Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Anderson , 1980 ; Gittins , 1986 ) . |
| 17 | This period of the second industrial revolution is marked especially as a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization . |
| 18 | An era of ultranationalism had withered the fragile plant of democracy whose seed had been sown in the 1890 constitution , and the 1930s was interpreted as a period of aberration in Japan 's progress towards a democratic society . |
| 19 | Sleep can be defined as a period of reduced consciousness usually occurring at night , during which most body functions are slow or inactive . |
| 20 | Barry remembers his time at Ealing as a period of intense learning : ‘ It was very much a team effort there , with an awful lot of give and take . |
| 21 | Owens ( 1984 , 174 ) has commented that the 1970s saw a hiatus in recreation research as a period of evaluation replaced the previous period which had been characterized by : |
| 22 | Thus the path could be thought of as a period of price warfare followed by reversion to collusion . |
| 23 | This section has described the inter war period as a period of consolidation in social policy . |
| 24 | You mentioned er earlier the trade unions and er you mentioned the the er middle twent middle nineteen twenties as a period of industrial un un un unrest . |
| 25 | Wihtred 's long reign , though devoid of known incident , is distinguished as a period of close co-operation between the royal court and the Church in Kent under Archbishop Beorhtwald . |
| 26 | The nineteenth century has been seen as a period of transition from a largely amateur ‘ natural history ’ to a professionalized science of ‘ biology ’ . |
| 27 | Sixty odd years separate this work from The Birth of Tragedy and compared with a similar span of years since Winckelmann 's revolutionary study of Greet art , the later period , viewed as a period of German Hellenism , is anti-climatic . |
| 28 | Thus the process of convergence to the play in the full information game can be interpreted as a period of temporary reputation . |
| 29 | Elizabethan England could be portrayed as a period before emigration to the American colonies began , before the ruptures between a British and American way of life existed . |
| 30 | History will decry our time as a period of market soothsaying when it was believed that the market could provide everything and solve all problems . |