Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That was because I came from the most stable period of his life and I made him feel secure . ’ |
| 2 | Not only is it not recoverable but it has taken place at the most profitable period in the product life , before the adverse effects of ageing have affected its sales and costs . |
| 3 | Not only is it not recoverable but it has taken place at the most profitable period in the product life , before the adverse effects of ageing have affected its sales and costs . |
| 4 | ‘ It was electric — the most exciting , most demanding period of my life , ’ says Robertson , though he reckons that , as a vociferous , opinionated twenty-year-old he ‘ must have looked like such an arsehole ’ . |
| 5 | It was a most painful period altogether , and Ronald Duncan has described how Eliot , on his return from hospital , recounted in vivid detail the operation and its consequences . |
| 6 | NOWADAYS , CABARET Voltaire are n't drastically trying to open up new vistas. they just run the gamut of electronic dance music — techno , acid , ambient , the trancey bass-driven hypno-grooves — letting themselves be influenced by the most exciting period dance music has seen since ‘ 87 –'88.; |
| 7 | For Jean Rossiter it was a ‘ most exciting period ’ , for Maxwell Smith they were ‘ enormous fun ’ . |
| 8 | He says that this is the most unpleasant period in his 25 years in local Government . |
| 9 | Chiefly the collection covers the period from the eighteenth-century until the early part of the twentieth-century and so covers the most interesting period in the history of the city . |
| 10 | ‘ Twilight , in the absence of the moon , is a fine , a most interesting period . |
| 11 | The most popular period for BES investment occurs in the last three months of the tax year as investors begin to think about reducing tax liabilities ; the early autumn sees a second surge as investors can claim up to half the tax relief for the previous year on investments made before 6 October ( subject to a maximum of £5,000 ) . |
| 12 | Matta 's ‘ Théorie de l'arbre ’ , painted in 1941 , is expected to fetch $500–600,000 ( £290–350,000 ) while two paintings by Fernando Botero , ‘ The lovers ’ and ‘ Cat with green soup ’ , which date from his most popular period carry an estimate of $700–800,000 ( £405–465,000 ) and $500–700,000 ( £290–405,000 ) respectively . |
| 13 | It must not be forgotten , however , that although a particular period may contain a low proportion of defective items , if publications from that period are in great demand , a larger number of defective items from that period may be issued ( and may suffer further damage ) than from a less popular period , even if the latter contains a higher proportion of items in need of repair . |
| 14 | The delayed decline in the population of Lewis and Harris and of the Western Isles amounted to rather more than 30% over a much shorter period . |
| 15 | Although the Inland Revenue has up to three months in which to confirm the validity of the election ( s 248(2) ) , in practice it is usually prepared to give confirmation within a much shorter period . |
| 16 | This is , of course , a much shorter period than that represented in Figure 11.1 , but it does show that the growth of the real money stock has been consistently faster than the growth of real GDP . |
| 17 | In addition to this decrease in size child bearing is now concentrated into a much shorter period of a woman 's life . |
| 18 | The nationalities concerned are generally Lutheran ( Estonians and Latvians ) or Roman Catholic ( Lithuanians ) by religion , not Orthodox , and they have been under Soviet rule for a much shorter period of time than most other nationalities , since 1940 rather than the immediate post-revolutionary period ( when communist-led governments were briefly established in all three republics ) . |
| 19 | The system is best at coping with ad hoc requests and these are usually processed within a 24 hour period at the maximum , usually a much shorter period . |
| 20 | The market can close for the remainder of the trading day or for a much shorter period such as half an hour , depending on the exchange . |
| 21 | An operating lease lasts for a much shorter period of time than the economic life of the asset and the lessor retains the risks and rewards of ownership . |
| 22 | There has been a lot of work — both recently and in different traditions over a very long historical period — on how sentences are put together . |
| 23 | some of you are a lot younger than me of course , it could be a lot smaller , but er er showing this to teenagers , if you work out what age a teenager will be in the year twenty forty , they 'll be about er in their mid sixties so this period of time , basically , is the time over which our present er generation of schoolchildren will have their adult life . |
| 24 | This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) . |
| 25 | The scheme takes advantage of the extremely long prepatent period which allows a single breeding cycle by the gilts to be completed before egg-laying begins and so progressively eliminates infection . |
| 26 | Visually , this is a spectacular film , all inky images and achingly authentic period detail . |
| 27 | Apart from that somewhat exceptional period , in which members of these magnates ' entourages were rewarded with Gascon pos-itions , the great majority of local offices in the administration were tena-ciously held by the Gascon nobility . |
| 28 | I think events proved that she had come to know me a little better , and talked to me , and tried to find out what I was planning and what I was doing , and how David 's career was going , and co-operated with me to assist David , I think he would have had a much happier period ahead of him . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ They are now being reasserted in this highly reactionary period ’ , he says . |
| 30 | Fussler and Simon , in Patterns in the use of books in large research libraries , affirmed that ‘ past use over a sufficiently long period is an excellent and by far the best predictor of future use ’ , although they observed , ‘ the confidence limits of prediction vary significantly from one subject to another ’ . |