Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither mentioned the depressing period from their wedding-day to the present . |
| 2 | The world entered a long-term period of recession and chronic unemployment , both of which at the time of writing seem to have become endemic to our advanced societies . |
| 3 | After this , the figure of El Cid entered a dark period in which historian after historian , following a 1849 work of the Dutch orientalist R. Dozy , contrived to portray Rodrigo as a cruel , treacherous and often barbarian character . |
| 4 | But this was not before State subsidies , both direct and indirect , had first fuelled and then maintained a remarkable period of private development . |
| 5 | Even now , and though the events of June triggered a brief period of reappraisal , the British still seem besotted by their vision of China as a billion-strong market for their goods and services — and either unaware , or unimpressed , that their exports to Hong Kong itself are currently worth three times as much as those to its northern neighbour . |
| 6 | Such rationalisation initiatives created a turbulent period for ICI in 1991 , and Hampel reported that this process would continue in 1992 . |
| 7 | In 1984 the Housing and Building Control Act reduced the qualifying period of tenancy from three years to two and increased the maximum discount from 50 per cent to 60 per cent , and this was followed by the Housing and Planning Act of 1986 which increased the discounts available on flats to 70 per cent . |
| 8 | He also received a three-year period of probation — during which he would be required to perform 1,800 hours of community service per year — on a more general conspiracy charge . |
| 9 | In every case the accused teacher suffered a lengthy period of suspension before being told that the allegation had been withdrawn or that no proceedings would be instituted against them . |
| 10 | Paul Willis , in his book Learning to Labour ( 1977 ) , noted a brief period of exhilarating freedom in the lives of working-class lads . |
| 11 | With the abolition of the monarchy came a brief period of rule by a Council of State elected by what was termed the Rump Parliament . |
| 12 | After what seemed an interminable period of tiptoeing down the road I managed to hitchhike a lift on the roof of a logging truck . |
| 13 | When Anthony Crosland declared that the ‘ party is over , he can not have realized that the Government 's cuts presaged a long period in which the Labour Party itself would be seriously threatened — partly because of its association with supposedly spendthrift urban policies . |
| 14 | The Chilean Communist party was proscribed by dictator Ibáń0ez from 1927 to 1931 , and in Argentina the 1930 coup by the armed forces presaged a fifteen-year period of illegality for the PCA . |
| 15 | Latvia also declared a transitional period for negotiations on independence , as Estonia had done on March 30 [ see p. 37322 and below ] , but without rejecting the validity of the Soviet Constitution and laws , provided that they were not in conflict with Latvia 's laws and sovereign rights . |
| 16 | That room still exists and although the crucifix has given way to an omnidimensional cross cum globe , for twenty minutes every morning , before our regular sessions started , Christopher Pilkington led a quiet period of meditative prayer . |
| 17 | Following the revolution of 1905 Russia experienced a further period of rapid economic and social change . |
| 18 | Japan experienced a brief period of European contact in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , but in 1639 the government of Japan , the Tokugawa ( Edo ) Bakufu , effectively severed all contact with the West . |
| 19 | Slumptown is a community which experienced a brief period of industrial expansion before a rapid economic decline . |
| 20 | Ironically , during that time , Charles and Diana enjoyed the happiest period of their married life . |
| 21 | In an experiment he taught the same period to two groups . |
| 22 | This seems to fit quite well with the detailed process of manoeuvring which characterized the early period of financial centralization . |
| 23 | Thus began a second period of explosive growth in Lothern . |
| 24 | After a century there began a long period of sea warfare and skirmishing over the north of Ulthuan . |
| 25 | There then followed a long period of muddle and confusion not helped by the fact that no one had a recent photograph of Blake and that it was a Saturday evening . |
| 26 | There followed a long period of explanation of what we did followed by negotiations on what we would have to do to meet the standard . |
| 27 | The coup attempt followed a prolonged period of economic recession within Trinidad and Tobago , which saw gross national product ( GNP ) fall by more than 30 per cent between 1982 and 1990 and unemployment rise to over 22 per cent . |
| 28 | There followed a seven-year period in which he wrote nothing except ‘ two or three little presentation pieces which occasion called for ’ . |
| 29 | –Then followed a sustained period of pressure on the St Albans ' goal which culminated in a 25-yard shot from Springett which was well saved by Westwood . |
| 30 | There followed a lengthy period of inactivity and decay , until the early 1920s saw the establishment of a saw milling business , set up by the Joiner family . |