Example sentences of "a [adv] [adj] period for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly 600 years after the first building it was to suffer a most ignoble period for the old building , within whose walls had been seen some of the highest in the land , was to become a Workhouse . |
| 2 | It should be noted , though , that as yet there has not been a long enough period for what is banal and insubstantial to be dropped in favour of what is an enduring renewal of the tradition . |
| 3 | Is not that a long enough period for miners to be working down the pit ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Because the 1980s in the UK was a very favourable period for customers , UK retailers did n't see those developments : most of them spent the 1980s massaging their profits and margins , which they euphemistically called ‘ adding value ’ ’ . |
| 6 | But changing the corporate culture is a very long term solution ( up to ten years ) and can be a very difficult period for all involved . |
| 7 | I do think there are problems and difficulties , I do n't think it will be easy , not least because we do n't have a shared morality and a shared consensus , on the objectives for the voluntary sector , but it is a set of concerns which we must address , er , and I believe that if , if I 've done nothing else today , I 've kicked off a debate , or I 've contributed to a debate which was already rolling , erm , and that we must address those difficulties , and try and find ways through them , because there are opportunities as well as threats in the current situation and I believe we have to look at all of those er , so that we can move into the nineteen nineties which I believe will be a very exciting period for the voluntary sector , and one which the voluntary sector should er , see as exciting , grab the opportunities and move forward . |
| 8 | Incongruously , this was also a very happy period for me in many ways . |