Example sentences of "[be] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1980s have been a period of considerable and long-overdue change . |
| 2 | As a mixed show catalogue statement put it : ‘ The past decade in America has been a period of great creative activity in painting . |
| 3 | Officials said that , had Labour won , there would have been a period of uncertainty , although Mr Kinnock 's policies had changed and he was no longer the frightening prospect he seemed to the US administration a few years ago . |
| 4 | Of these , two were corn mills , one eventually became an iron works and the other probably a corn mill , although there may have been a period when it was used as a fulling mill . |
| 5 | Already , even before the move , Herbert was ‘ going his own way ’ , and there had been a period of separation the previous year when Grace took the children to stay in Cape Town for six months or more . |
| 6 | I do not think there has ever been a period in history when there has been such a violent and irreversible change in the political and social order ( unless it be the long-term consequences of the Russian Revolution ) . |
| 7 | HAS there ever been a period when world leaders , as Premiers and Presidents so love to be called , were such second-raters ? |
| 8 | This is significant , because there has been a period during which it looked as though , because of the societies ' successful opposition in 1990 to the then Italian Foreign Secretary Gianni De Michelis 's plan to site Expo2000 in the Veneto , the Italian government would no longer pay for the Unesco office . |
| 9 | Helen 's main problems since she moved into her own home have been a period of illness , which caused her much discomfort , and a spate of difficulties in accepting personal care from temporary staff . |
| 10 | For England and Wales , this has also been a period of considerable growth , with the prison population more than doubling between 1950 and 1980 , from 20,400 to 50,000 . |
| 11 | Before this speech he had carried Neville Chamberlain with him in such rejection , but a week later , when there had already been a period of some pressure against the pound in the foreign exchange markets , Chamberlain thought that events would ‘ beat down Baldwin 's native instinct against coalition ’ . ’ |
| 12 | For Richard it seems to have been a period of reconciliation : with Sebrand Chabot , who was allowed to return to his see in April 1180 , and with Aimar of Limoges , who arrived back at Christmas of the same year . |
| 13 | Even then , there were land development issues associated with local state support for the new system of owner-occupation but , in comparison with developments after 1975 , the 1930s seem to have been a period during which previous social forms were suspended rather than transformed . |
| 14 | This is another welcome return as having been available running under SuperCalc 5 there has been a period in which this was no longer available . |
| 15 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 16 | Taking over as she did at very short notice when our last Treasurer became ill , she has always managed to administer the Society 's finances in an extremely capable way despite the fact that the last six years has been a period of considerable change and economic difficulty . |
| 17 | The first five years of life are a period of rapid development . |
| 18 | The ‘ teens ’ are a period of profound changes : physiological , psychological , and social . |
| 19 | According to this framework the late 1970s and the 1980s are a period of structural change partly because this new international structure of production has been put in place . |
| 20 | It proved to be a period of strained relations with the English liberals , who were allies of the Irish party , but who were also in favour of bringing schooling more and more under state rather than church control ( Miller 1973 : 81–7 , 120–38 , 268–92 ) . |
| 21 | Such expansions of police power were forecast by E. P. Thompson ( 1980 ) , who considered this to be a period which has no equal . |
| 22 | There is to be a period of consultation lasting until the middle of June 1991 when individuals and organisations can put forward their views . |
| 23 | To achieve this , there would have to be a period during which growth slowed down , and with it the growth of imports . |
| 24 | There has to be a period of simply understanding how things work ; then graduating to some degree of management control . |
| 25 | The next few decades were to be a period of accelerating changes for the mills of the area as Hicks , who in 1806 became Lord of the Manor , systematically extended his empire . |
| 26 | This problem of the sense of identity at national government ( i.e. United Kingdom ) level is one which will be felt more acutely in many countries in what promises to be a period of mass migration . |
| 27 | There was the added complication that for the first time there would be a period of five minutes or so when I would have to shut inside my satchel not only my outdoor shoes but my gym shoes as well . |
| 28 | There will be a period where the individual is affected by the condition , but it is not yet suffering . |
| 29 | This input of detail , with the emphasis on the need for guidance and care made the transition appear to be a period of effort , anxiety , and danger ; and such a representation was convenient at a time when social scientists , and others , were ‘ discovering ’ adolescence as a stage of life characterized by ‘ storm and stress ’ . |
| 30 | I think there must be a period for a start when the office or elsewhere is a bit on the nervous and inefficient side as smokers are deprived , but he does not mention this . |