Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adv] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Its most likely period of operation is between 300 and 325 , whereafter some of its craftsmen appear to have been employed at Withington , and . |
| 3 | Hata acknowledged that the country 's financial system was facing its most difficult period since 1945 , and that the sharp decline in share and property prices combined with the general economic slowdown had triggered doubts concerning the financial system 's stability and capacity to supply capital which , unless eradicated , could jeopardize any potential recovery . |
| 4 | LABOUR has begun its most intensive period for reselection . |
| 5 | Above the ground the vine looks dormant , but below the roots are going through their most active period of the year . |
| 6 | The ‘ flooding dose ’ method , with its relatively short period of measurement , will measure both fixed and secretory protein synthesis . |
| 7 | Yet this was not only his most effective period in office but also the job he enjoyed most . |
| 8 | Wordsworth lived in Dove Cottage , a white-washed former inn called The Dove and Olive , during his most creative period from 1799 until 1808 . |
| 9 | What was true on the wider front was also true at a personal level : Layton was about to go into his most prolific period of writing , and the whole literary scene was being galvanised into a productivity never before realised in Canada . |
| 10 | His most active period in the Commons came during the three Exclusion Parliaments : he served on no fewer than fifty-two committees , involving a wide range of issues . |
| 11 | Maidstone prison contains one man who has already served 33 years and staff seemed torn between two beliefs ; one , that the risk he posed ( of further offences against children ) meant that further incarceration was inevitable , the other that his extraordinarily long period in custody meant he would be unable to survive outside the prison walls , anyway . |