Example sentences of "through a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The privilege lasts through a good period of fine weather . |
| 2 | X/Open is pushing the DCE specifications through a fast track procedure for adoption , which means they go straight to a vote by its members rather than through a prolonged period of technical evaluation , work already done exhaustively by OSF in any case . |
| 3 | Many areas that appear to be hazard-free on current maps may merely by passing through a temporary period of quiescence . |
| 4 | I have been through a long period of psychotherapy dealing with this abuse and continue to find internal examinations traumatic . |
| 5 | I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted . |
| 6 | This takes practice but you can soon learn to use that new-found sense of awareness whether you are going through a tranquil period of your life or whether you are lying in bed wondering why you can not get to sleep . |
| 7 | She must have gone through a terrible period in her life ; looking back , she genuinely believed it to be worse than it really was . |
| 8 | These books are both related to the exhibition On The Passage of a Few People Through a Brief Period of Time presented at the Musée national d'art moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou , the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London , and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston , Massachusetts during 1989 — 90 . |
| 9 | He went through a brief period of chatting to the customers down at the bank about how he had seen someone come back from the dead . |
| 10 | This denial was particularly important , since at the time the Thatcher administration was going through a bad period in terms of popular opinion on issues such as unemployment , social services , and housing . |
| 11 | Chairman Alan Potts explained : ‘ The Club went through a bad period in the eighties but happily we resolved the problems . ’ |
| 12 | The period 1860–90 was crucial for Germany : as the German state emerged and the German self-image was formed , Prussia-Germany went through a chaotic period of social and economic transformation : a boom in canal and railway building , in the steel industry , in banking , engineering , scientific research and in developing industrial techniques had been accompanied by a war with France ; this was followed by a slump , financial collapse and a steady move to the right in political thinking . |
| 13 | Rigney , after going through a difficult period with a knee injury , is back in action following a summer of hard graft and determined to regain his international berth . |
| 14 | Quite apart from the impending expansion and modernisation of our fleet , we had been going through a difficult period in the prevailing political climate at HQ . |