Example sentences of "[be] [adv] a [adj] period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we 're trying to do is say look , you are senior people in this company because although you 've only been here a short period of time , but you 're still very senior people . |
| 2 | Now it 's a lot of people , it 's only a short period of time , is n't it , one month . |
| 3 | Your son has suffered a terrible loss — six months is not a long period of time to get over such a trauma . |
| 4 | It was not a twenty-year period of formal civil conflict . |
| 5 | The third quarter of the century was therefore a fertile period of experiments in the mobilisation of capital for industrial development . |