Example sentences of "his [adv] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet this was not only his most effective period in office but also the job he enjoyed most . |
| 2 | Wordsworth lived in Dove Cottage , a white-washed former inn called The Dove and Olive , during his most creative period from 1799 until 1808 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |