Example sentences of "of a [adv] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pure Apolline tendency of this phase , clearly present in the Homeric epics , found its purest expression in Doric art [ ( sculpture and architecture ) of a rather later period ] , but [ meanwhile ] irresistible Dionysiac impulses began to appear spontaneously in Greece itself . |
| 2 | Of course ; the film was just one minuscule component of a particularly significant period of the last half-century , at a time when many millions of people still viewed film and pop stars as providers of some kind of visionary lead . |
| 3 | The History of Frigeridus covered events of a slightly later period . |
| 4 | Like most such documents it was probably an exaggeration but it marked the approaching end of a peculiarly rich period of vitality in the county . |
| 5 | It is likely the alterations were carried out towards the end of a relatively prosperous period , before a collapse in trade , between 1810 and 1820 . |
| 6 | Rather , it represented one part of a very particular period in British history , and as such was ‘ one aspect of the mid-twentieth century rapprochement between the feudal paternalism of Tory Democracy and the Fabian centralism of Social Democracy ’ ( Gyford , 1985a , p. 88 ) . |
| 7 | These developments almost certainly signalled the inauguration of a more peaceful period in Pictish-Northumbrian relations with the accession of Coenred . |
| 8 | The structure of excise duties is an historical anomaly , born of a quite different period and totally different market circumstances . |