Example sentences of "relatively [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | By this time chartism had been dismantled ; with it went the first , and arguably last voice of mass working-class opposition to the state , and Britain entered into a relatively stable period of economic progress within a successfully reconstructed hegemony . |
2 | Hence the world of the late 1970s and early 1980s child care was more polarized between competing values than the relatively consensual period between 1948 and 1975 . |
3 | Two days later , on 26 July , the dowager and the queen left Linlithgow for the greater safety of Stirling , presumably an indication that , with the making of this bond , the relatively straightforward period of the first half of 1543 was over . |
4 | for example , many city office workers regard the main stress of the day as the difficulties in getting from home to work and back again with work as a relatively relaxed period between . |
5 | Only when this phase has been completed , and perhaps only for a relatively brief period at the height of a crisis , can a second phase of overt conflict between proletarians and capitalists become manifest ( Przeworski , 1977 ) . |
6 | Now normal pre-linguistic human infants , for a relatively brief period of their development , share none of the conscious hopes , plans , and desires for a continuing life , of the mongoloid child . |
7 | At Westminster , the government annually presents a package of spending and revenue-raising measures which parliament , after a relatively brief period of ritual debate , duly ratifies . |
8 | Only during a relatively brief period in the 1950s and 1960s did another form — the high-rise block of flats — become almost as dominant in new local authority construction as the house with the garden , and then generally in the more densely populated urban areas ( Dunleavy , 1981 ) . |
9 | Only one or two mosaics can be assigned , tenuously , to a period after c.350 , although the original dates for the Lydney mosaics ( Wheeler 1936 , 65 ) , if even approximately correct , could suggest a relatively late period for mosaics in the region which share the essentials of the arrangement of the pavement of room XVIII . |
10 | These reflect a relatively late period of modest success for the town . |
11 | However , the considerations given earlier on overflow area size and the need to allow for a relatively long period between reorganizations will guide the designer to a reasonable compromise . |
12 | It was the relatively long period of life from birth to the end of physical dependence on the parents that built into the human being , an eradicable awareness of his vulnerability and a deeply-rooted instinctive expectation that his needs will be met from a source outside himself . |
13 | McKenna , recognising the species specific nature of the sudden infant death syndrome and the relatively narrow time range of the majority of deaths , drew attention to both the relatively long period of physical dependence of the human infant and the ways in which caring practices vary with historical and cultural contexts . |
14 | Here we report an exception : PSR1718–19 , in the globular cluster NGC6342 , is in a 6.2-hour eclipsing binary system , but has the relatively long period of 1s . |
15 | This was particularly the case with patients who had been given methadone reduction over a relatively long period of time , say two to three months . |
16 | These quirks of fate , combined with Jane Brown 's own enthusiasms ( she is the author of a fine book on the Lutyens-Jekyll partnership ) have resulted in a narrative in which the gardens of the Arts and Crafts movement , a relatively short period between 1890-1914 , get twice the space of the gardens of either the eighteenth or the nineteenth century . |
17 | During my relatively short period as a city detective , I was implicitly aware that quality had to be sacrificed to quantity , for the ‘ arrest list ’ was checked monthly and the numerical totals counted . |
18 | The Elton Committee managed to produce a comprehensive and widely supported report and a coherent set of recommendations in a relatively short period of time . |
19 | ‘ Terminally ill ’ , I submit means that the patient has an illness which has been accurately diagnosed , and which seems certain to bring about his death within a relatively short period of time , since the illness is beyond both cure and palliation . |
20 | require a commitment of organizational resources for a relatively short period of time |
21 | The therapist should prepare the patient for termination by making it clear from the first interview that a relatively short period of treatment is planned . |
22 | Although the initial injury he had received had healed in a relatively short period of time , he had been left with a pain in his left knee ; this was aggravated whenever he put pressure on the joint concerned , as in walking or even just standing . |
23 | WITHIN A RELATIVELY short period of time , Ferruccio Furlanetto has established himself as one of the most sought after of all operatic basses , recording for no less than five out of the world 's six leading recording organisations . |
24 | Elicitation procedures make it possible to examine a very broad spectrum of linguistic abilities in a systematic manner over a relatively short period of time . |
25 | On the one hand , ethnic minorities currently settled in Britain have been here for a relatively short period of time , and it seems that circumstances of migration and initial settlement are conditions under which support between siblings assumes greater significance than it might otherwise do — a point illustrated by the patterns of chain migration and of joint households which I discussed earlier in this chapter . |
26 | It appears entirely possible for a coronary artery to progress from one with hardly any narrowing to one which is completely blocked over a relatively short period of time ; and conversely , it is possible for a severe coronary stenosis to stay as a severe coronary stenosis without progressing for several years . |
27 | Yes , I I I I 've had these for a relatively short period of time . |
28 | The typical applicant to the tribunal is a male , middle-aged , non-union manual worker dismissed after a relatively short period of service . |
29 | Nevertheless , they counter that the physical environment should not be considered a constant , even over the relatively short period of agricultural settlement in Great Britain , in part because of climatic change and its consequences , in part because of changes wrought by land use practices , and in part because of changed perceptions of the environment ; see also Prince ( 1971 ) , and Blaikie and Brookfield ( 1987 ) . |
30 | They will become tame enough after a relatively short period of time , to take food from your fingers . |