Example sentences of "relatively [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time chartism had been dismantled ; with it went the first , and arguably last voice of mass working-class opposition to the state , and Britain entered into a relatively stable period of economic progress within a successfully reconstructed hegemony . |
| 2 | In a year when the annual quantity required ( 207,461,000 cu. ft. ) is balanced by adequate rainfall then the storage must be such as to make up the supply during the relatively dry period . |
| 3 | The 1930s and 1940s were a relatively warm period , followed by a cooler phase during the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 4 | Hence the world of the late 1970s and early 1980s child care was more polarized between competing values than the relatively consensual period between 1948 and 1975 . |
| 5 | Two days later , on 26 July , the dowager and the queen left Linlithgow for the greater safety of Stirling , presumably an indication that , with the making of this bond , the relatively straightforward period of the first half of 1543 was over . |
| 6 | for example , many city office workers regard the main stress of the day as the difficulties in getting from home to work and back again with work as a relatively relaxed period between . |
| 7 | Now normal pre-linguistic human infants , for a relatively brief period of their development , share none of the conscious hopes , plans , and desires for a continuing life , of the mongoloid child . |
| 8 | Only when this phase has been completed , and perhaps only for a relatively brief period at the height of a crisis , can a second phase of overt conflict between proletarians and capitalists become manifest ( Przeworski , 1977 ) . |
| 9 | At Westminster , the government annually presents a package of spending and revenue-raising measures which parliament , after a relatively brief period of ritual debate , duly ratifies . |
| 10 | Only during a relatively brief period in the 1950s and 1960s did another form — the high-rise block of flats — become almost as dominant in new local authority construction as the house with the garden , and then generally in the more densely populated urban areas ( Dunleavy , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | These reflect a relatively late period of modest success for the town . |
| 12 | Only one or two mosaics can be assigned , tenuously , to a period after c.350 , although the original dates for the Lydney mosaics ( Wheeler 1936 , 65 ) , if even approximately correct , could suggest a relatively late period for mosaics in the region which share the essentials of the arrangement of the pavement of room XVIII . |
| 13 | It was the relatively long period of life from birth to the end of physical dependence on the parents that built into the human being , an eradicable awareness of his vulnerability and a deeply-rooted instinctive expectation that his needs will be met from a source outside himself . |
| 14 | The corrosion emanated from the joint between the bottom of the pressure dome and the fuselage and there was nicotine tar staining on the edge of the corroded area indicating that it had developed over a relatively long period . |
| 15 | McKenna , recognising the species specific nature of the sudden infant death syndrome and the relatively narrow time range of the majority of deaths , drew attention to both the relatively long period of physical dependence of the human infant and the ways in which caring practices vary with historical and cultural contexts . |
| 16 | Here we report an exception : PSR1718–19 , in the globular cluster NGC6342 , is in a 6.2-hour eclipsing binary system , but has the relatively long period of 1s . |
| 17 | This was particularly the case with patients who had been given methadone reduction over a relatively long period of time , say two to three months . |
| 18 | However , the considerations given earlier on overflow area size and the need to allow for a relatively long period between reorganizations will guide the designer to a reasonable compromise . |
| 19 | It should be borne in mind here that many trustees would be able to appoint the capital to relatively young beneficiaries so that the property might not be subject to a further charge for a relatively long period . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | These quirks of fate , combined with Jane Brown 's own enthusiasms ( she is the author of a fine book on the Lutyens-Jekyll partnership ) have resulted in a narrative in which the gardens of the Arts and Crafts movement , a relatively short period between 1890-1914 , get twice the space of the gardens of either the eighteenth or the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | Our own surveys confirm a strong switch towards optimism between our Mid-Term Wave in 1986 and our Pre-Campaign Wave in March 1987 , but over the relatively short period from our Pre-Campaign Wave to the end of the campaign overall trends in economic perceptions were small . |
| 23 | The greatest difference is that the Marshall plan was reviving economies which , even in the case of Germany , had experienced bureaucratic control for a relatively short period . |
| 24 | The Elton Committee managed to produce a comprehensive and widely supported report and a coherent set of recommendations in a relatively short period of time . |
| 25 | ‘ Terminally ill ’ , I submit means that the patient has an illness which has been accurately diagnosed , and which seems certain to bring about his death within a relatively short period of time , since the illness is beyond both cure and palliation . |
| 26 | The groundmass crystals form when the lava cools on reaching the surface , so the individual crystals are tiny , simply because they do n't have the time to grow any larger in the relatively short period that the flow takes to cool . |
| 27 | require a commitment of organizational resources for a relatively short period of time |
| 28 | The therapist should prepare the patient for termination by making it clear from the first interview that a relatively short period of treatment is planned . |
| 29 | Although the initial injury he had received had healed in a relatively short period of time , he had been left with a pain in his left knee ; this was aggravated whenever he put pressure on the joint concerned , as in walking or even just standing . |
| 30 | WITHIN A RELATIVELY short period of time , Ferruccio Furlanetto has established himself as one of the most sought after of all operatic basses , recording for no less than five out of the world 's six leading recording organisations . |