Example sentences of "[adv] this period " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thus this period saw the division of the global system into three ‘ worlds ’ : the first world of developed capitalist states ; the communist bloc , or second world ; and the less developed third-world states of the southern hemisphere . |
| 3 | one parent families headed by fathers also grew over this period , by 11 per cent . |
| 4 | The House of Commons Employment Committee proposes the establishment of a ‘ decade of retirement ’ between the age of 60 and 70 , which would allow people to choose for themselves when they wished to retire over this period of time . |
| 5 | The struggles over incomes policy and trade union legislation were part of a more general worsening of relations between the Labour Party , organised labour and the ‘ intellectual left ’ over this period . |
| 6 | A further 16,000 houses would be needed for the predicted 40,000 incomers expected to arrive over this period . |
| 7 | Figure 18.1 shows how the total casualties fell over this period even though the number of vehicles on the road was increasing . |
| 8 | If this ( expected ) relative price is high then it will give suppliers an incentive to produce and sell more this period and hold the proceeds in monetary form , in anticipation that their real value will increase as the average price level falls next period . |
| 9 | Later this period was divided into the months January and February . |
| 10 | Has it enough working capital to enable it to wait out this period without becoming insolvent ? |
| 11 | Has it enough working capital to enable it to wait out this period without becoming insolvent ? |
| 12 | And there , lots of people and and lots of them actually they came from Abbotsbury and that all their kids were doing so well and then this period of a year , nothing ! |
| 13 | Although outwardly this period resembles the beginnings of married life , it is very different . |
| 14 | Yet this period of life , around the ages of 43–53 , carries problems for both men and women . |
| 15 | Nobody would argue that Britons in the decade 1982-1992 enjoyed living standards that 1930s world champions , Benny Lynch and Jackie Brown , would have regarded as being beyond the average working man 's reach , yet this period of comparative prosperity produced 11 British world champions : the greatest number per decade in British boxing history . |