Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | This school had enjoyed a brief period of success and national distinction in the first decade of the sixteenth century under the Mastership of John Stanbridge , who was well known when he migrated north from Oxford and whose Grammar was prescribed in the statutes of Manchester Grammar School . |
| 2 | They had envisaged a two-month period to put the exhibition together but Central Promotional Services of Leicester , who manage the Centre , offered free exhibition space on 17 August , just ten days after their initial inquiries . |
| 3 | The meeting was timely because Hamish Kidd , a Cambridge chemical engineer who had spent a long period in general management consultancy with P-E Consulting Group , had developed systems to introduce executive search into P-E when it was sanctioned as an allowable technique by the Management Consultants Association ( MCA ) . |
| 4 | It is conceivable that Kim had spent a brief period with the CCP at Yenan in the later 1930s . |
| 5 | He had spent a short period there as a singer , then formed a reputation at Bordeaux and elsewhere as a gifted opéra director and arranger . |
| 6 | On May 16 the Collective State Presidency issued a warning clearly directed at Slovenia and Croatia that a " serious breakdown of the system established by the Constitution " and " disregard for existing federal laws " meant that Yugoslavia had entered a critical period of instability . |
| 7 | There is nothing at all romantic about this sympathy for the underdog : as a midshipman , we are told , Aubrey had been disrated for an unsavoury escapade and had served a long period on the lower deck , an experience which he never forgot . |