Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But this was not before State subsidies , both direct and indirect , had first fuelled and then maintained a remarkable period of private development . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Such rationalisation initiatives created a turbulent period for ICI in 1991 , and Hampel reported that this process would continue in 1992 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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every case the accused teacher suffered a lengthy period of suspension before being told that the allegation had been withdrawn or that no proceedings would be instituted against them . |
| 8 | Paul Willis , in his book Learning to Labour ( 1977 ) , noted a brief period of exhilarating freedom in the lives of working-class lads . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After what seemed an interminable period of tiptoeing down the road I managed to hitchhike a lift on the roof of a logging truck . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Following the revolution of 1905 Russia experienced a further period of rapid economic and social change . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Slumptown is a community which experienced a brief period of industrial expansion before a rapid economic decline . |
| 18 | Thus began a second period of explosive growth in Lothern . |
| 19 | After a century there began a long period of sea warfare and skirmishing over the north of Ulthuan . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There followed a seven-year period in which he wrote nothing except ‘ two or three little presentation pieces which occasion called for ’ . |
| 24 | –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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A recent study by Professor Pat Carlen shows that of 39 female adult criminals , 22 spent a substantial period of their childhood and adolescence in care . |
| 27 | If a person completed a year 's hiring in a parish , or served a full period of apprenticeship , then the right of settlement shifted to that parish . |
| 28 | Now , by the chaos of war , and because the exiled Napoleon had returned to France and thrust a new period of battle on Europe , Sharpe was a lieutenant-colonel in the 5th Belgian Light Dragoons , a regiment he had never met , had no wish to meet , and would not have recognized if it had formed line and charged him . |
| 29 | London-based Unix specialist , UniSoft Ltd , enjoyed a strong period of growth around the time it was engaged in developing an operating system for Motorola Computer Systems ' Unix boxes in the late 1980s . |
| 30 | Silverpoint enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the 1890s when silverpoint kits , including specially prepared papers , were made commercially available by Winsor & Newton . |