Example sentences of "a very [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He exhibited occasionally at the Royal Academy and became a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects ‘ at a very early period of [ the ] Institution ’ . |
| 2 | We first discussed the possibility of regressing to a very early period in her current life . |
| 3 | But it has long been known from careful palaeontological studies that even in the thick development in the Cotswolds , there is evidence of two major breaks and a period of folding in what otherwise was a very peaceful period in British geological history . |
| 4 | The range is from 5.0 to 7.6 , so that the star is never too dim to be found with binoculars ; there is a very rough period of around 130 days . |
| 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 | On the other hand all modern anthropologists and archaeologists would agree with the view that for a very long period of history mankind has existed solely by hunting , fishing , and gathering , and that such a technological stage always precedes domestication of plants and animals . |
| 7 | For , despite acquiring a mass of archival material stretching over a very long period of time , the Chinese never developed anything corresponding to the modern Western concept of history . |
| 8 | The fact that it is very difficult to do does n't prevent a lot of people wishing to achieve it , but it is very seldom that , in the industrial world , anybody has achieved and held continuously a pre-eminent position over a very long period of time . |
| 9 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond . |
| 10 | One possibility would be a statutory reformulation of Rylands v. Fletcher shorn of the qualifications and defences which so emasculate it now , perhaps on the lines of the Restatement , which imposes strict liability on one who carries on an ‘ abnormally dangerous activity , ’ but this would be open to varying judicial inclinations and would give rise to considerable uncertainty for a very long period of time . |
| 11 | Earth science papers have a very long period of use , compared to physics or engineering , but there is variation between sub-disciplines . |
| 12 | One , for example , oh five , six years ago , perhaps more , time passes so quickly erm on the Lewes to Wych Cross road , closed the road at Dane Hill for a very long period of time , while the road was completely reconstructed . |
| 13 | There was therefore a very long period during which the need for a god was having its effect on the developing mind of man , but during which no god worship as now understood was practised . |
| 14 | Here a predominantly grassland habitat was converted to a predominantly arable one in a very limited period after 1945 , primarily due to a Government policy of encouraging cereal growing . |
| 15 | In my late forties , I was reaching a very difficult period of my life , for no matter what the ailment I was informed by my doctor and friends , ‘ Do n't worry — it 's just your age dear . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was a very difficult period in my career , and the problem with the transfer was that everything was done out in the open . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | The fact that bigamy charges were pending against the defendant in the forum Province was accepted as a valid reason in one case ; not surprisingly , a Saskatchewan judge was markedly unimpressed by a defendant 's assertion that he could not travel from Oregon because the trial would occur at ‘ a very busy period in the building industry ’ . |
| 21 | Thus , while the heavy organics industry — petrochemicals , plastics and fibres — went through a very bad period in the early 1980s and lost much money , many of the inorganic chemicals such as chlorine derivatives retained their traditional stability . |
| 22 | It was tolerated well enough to become a useful drug , but it had a very brief period of action ; 6-MP is attacked by the enzyme xanthine oxidase , a normal constituent of the human body ( and of widespread occurrence elsewhere ) and is converted to a substance , thio-uric acid , which is not active against tumours . |
| 23 | And finally we went to see Karl Dönitz , the admiral who throughout the war had epitomized the U-boat service and been its inspired leader , who in 1943 had relieved Admiral Raeder as Germany 's naval commander-in-chief , and finally for a very brief period before arrest and ten years ' imprisonment in Spandau had succeeded Hitler as Chancellor . |
| 24 | The past 50 years have in fact proved a very active period with several important mathematicians putting the ancient house in order and opening new doors to entirely new possibilities . |
| 25 | We were then both at a very comfortable period of life , and I do n't know why no one has ever prayed to the gods for perpetual middle age . |
| 26 | ‘ In the life of any organisation , a centenary is a very considerable period of time , a good deal longer than is given to most of us . |
| 27 | In a very short period of time the education officer has probably found him/herself in school discussing these very issues with headteachers at the same time as presenting an interpretation of the detailed policy position of the elected members . |
| 28 | But unless you are absolutely certain that you will be able to get back on top of things within a very short period of time , do n't do it . |
| 29 | In these tests , two lines of obviously different lengths are exhibited for a very short period of time , and the subject has to say whether the right or the left line was the longer . |
| 30 | And then there was this tremendous musical development in a very short period of time — one or two generations — and by the twenties they 're playing jazz-swing , very well . ’ |