Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first stage in its life-cycle is therefore a period of very fast or supernormal growth . |
| 2 | " The first six months at the ICO were definitely a period of strange readjustment . " |
| 3 | Indeed , in insurance the eighteenth century was generally a period of establishment rather than of rapid growth . |
| 4 | The eighteenth century was thus a period of slow evolution rather than radical change in military affairs . |
| 5 | The eighteenth century was not a period of gradual progress towards democracy in Britain , as Whig historians have tried to suggest , but of a determined retreat from it . |