Example sentences of "an [adv] [adj] period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The builder will not start more houses than he can reasonably be sure of completing in an economically short period of time , nor at a price at which he will be unable to dispose of them . |
| 2 | In contrast , with pattern masking , subjects report seeing a crisp , clear high-contrast target for an extremely short period of time , too short for the target to be reportable . |
| 3 | TNC was given an astonishingly brief period of consultation while teachers were on their summer holidays in 1987 ; ISS was the subject of a year 's consultation in 1984–85 — perhaps too long . |
| 4 | After an immensely long period of feeble luminosity , the star loses the last of its light and heat , and becomes a cold , dead Black Dwarf . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think this is an unreasonably short period of acclimatisation , ’ added Walsh , who climbed his first 8,000-er in the shape of Cho Oyu two years ago . |
| 6 | And in the '70s came an even faster period of great expansion . |
| 7 | They had all reached that stage following a crisis , which can often be more difficult than the crisis itself , when it is no longer a matter of one superhuman push , but husbanding resources for an indeterminately prolonged period of stress . |