Example sentences of "during [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Tertiary prevention will help to ensure that the newly-born child is not put at risk of becoming handicapped during the early period of his or her life .
2 This will be of considerable value in counselling parents of deaf children during the early period of language development .
3 On long term follow up , the mean number of symptomatic recurrences was greater in the corrosive group , but this was largely due to a very high recurrence rate during the early period of follow up .
4 During the CAST investigation , patients who had a proarrhythmia response during the early period of drug exposure were eliminated from the long-term study .
5 And a I would say that actually during the early period in the Army , I think he probably gave as good as he got .
6 We would have to survive on minimum sustenance and to control the use of food and water during the hot periods of the day , using the cover of darkness for offensive activity .
7 showed that the number of full-time male employees of local authorities increased by only 13 per cent during the critical period of 1964–74 while the number of part-time women in local authority employment rose by 86 per cent during the same period .
8 The relative importance of these sources in any country varies according to the conditions during the adverse period of larval survival .
9 During the brilliant period of the Fatimids the university mosque of Al-Azhar , the oldest surviving university in the world , was built .
10 Nevertheless , when the occasion demanded it ( as it did during the turbulent period in which he became Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University ) , he showed great courage and firmness — the latter always in the nicest possible way .
11 Wesley and Locke represent the dilemma perceived in religion by many during the modern period of the Enlightenment .
12 They tell us what our world was like during the long periods of time before recorded history , and the collection and investigation of fossils is therefore of importance to anyone interested in our prehistory .
13 During the long periods between revaluations , distortions in the relative valuations of different properties occurred and , of course , new property had to be valued at the notional figure that would have obtained at the date of the previous revaluation .
14 Consequently , although pressure forces are important in collimating gas onto closed orbits , they are unimportant during the long periods in which the gas drifts from one closed orbit to the next .
15 During the long period of her recovery , Dawn understandably had bouts of severe depression , so at one stage she was referred to a clinical psychologist for counselling .
16 The chapters of this book recount the way in which Home Secretaries from both of the main parties handled their assignments between 1947–79 and , in more detail , during the long period of Conservative Administration between 1979–92 .
17 During the long period of growth , management had gradually stripped production workers of responsibility for product quality and process operations by creating an elaborate technical hierarchy .
18 This sister , Elisabeth , was to count for a good deal in Nietzsche 's later life , favourably and otherwise : she eventually became the custodian of all his surviving works during the long period of incapacity that preceded his death and continued in that influential role , which she executed in a highly questionable way , for thirty-five years afterwards .
19 I left him in charge of the whole of my affairs during my absence from England , with a perfect conviction that he would zealously exert himself for my interest , and the confidence I reposed in him has been fully realised , not only during my absence , but during the long period of eighteen years . ’
20 In South America , too , there were no true dogs or cats during the long period of isolation that we are discussing but , as in Australia , there were marsupial equivalents .
21 This is often impossible to obtain , however , as many of the torture techniques leave few visible injuries , or only superficial injuries which disappear during the long period in police custody .
22 Based on 400 monitoring sites , sulphur dioxide levels decreased 24 per cent during the 1980–9 period as a consequence of increased installation of flue-gas desulphurization equipment at coal-fired power stations , a reduction in the average sulphur content of fuels , industrial recession , and shutdowns of some large smelters ( figure 8.8 ) .
23 Within organizations productivity slowed down , on this view , because Taylorism had reached its limits — there were no new areas left to rationalize ; workers had become more resistant , especially during the prolonged period of post-war full employment , and efficiency gains were being outstripped by increasing costs of surveillance and control associated with the rigid separation of mental and managerial labour .
24 During the revolutionary period in France , following the fall of Louis Philippe in 1848 , Buddicom struggled valiantly to keep the railway in operation despite considerable physical danger to himself and to his family .
25 On June 24 , however , a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement asserted that Guo had " both the right and responsibility to state China 's position on matters relating to the smooth transfer of government during the transitional period in Hong Kong " .
26 As you can see there , the model is breaking down during the latter period of our sample .
27 If it is true that Socrates ( during the relevant period of his life ) is bald , then to say that this could have been false is a contradiction in terms .
28 Gold appeared during the prehistoric period in Japan but never made a deep impression on the consciousness of the Japanese .
29 However , because of the high levels of use , particularly during the dry periods of spring and early summer , and also because the courts have lain idle while the issue of land ownership was resolved , the surfaces have deteriorated to the point where complete refurbishment is necessary .
30 This demand for money arises to enable the community to fulfil its planned expenditures during the intervening periods between receipts of wages , salaries or other forms of income .
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