Example sentences of "[was/were] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The several centuries of the ‘ Dark Ages ’ that followed the Roman withdrawal from Britain were a period in which peoples from northwest Germany and Denmark were coming into the country . |
| 2 | The 1970s were a period when the parameters of local autonomy enjoyed both by LEAs and schools were discussed . |
| 3 | Following the great war between the Elves and the Dwarfs , and the consequent collapse of their empires , these ancient times were a period of great disorder , and exact historical detail is scarce . |
| 4 | ‘ The Eighties were a period of great change in British publishing . |
| 5 | Student unrest persisted , and numerous small revolutionary circles formed and dissolved , but the 1880s were a period of relative gloom and inactivity . |
| 6 | His first two years at the ENS were a period of growing disorientation and extremist experimentation . |
| 7 | One can go further , however , and assert that the 1980s were a period of more rapid change in UK economic geography than any previous decade of this century . |
| 8 | For all the warnings of the conservationists , the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a period of unparalleled expansion in the consumption of resources . |
| 9 | At any time in the eighteenth century management of the East India Company 's complex concerns was a formidable task , but the years from the 1750s to the 1780s were a period of tumultuous upheavals for the Company . |
| 10 | The 70's were a period of considerable change in several areas . |
| 11 | Those early years were a period of tremendous activity , much of it a pioneering nature , in which the most advanced skills in physics , chemistry , metallurgy and all aspects of engineering were brought to bear on the primary mission — the development of nuclear power for military and civil use . |
| 12 | The years 1926-41 were a period of an unprecedentedly rapid rate of industrialisation and modernisation ; but this involved a severe disruption of part of the economy , particularly in the early 1930s , when a major dislocation in the market for food and consumer goods resulted in famine in important areas . |
| 13 | The 1960's were a period of racial turmoil in the United States . |
| 14 | In fact the war years were a period of mixed fortunes for cotton manufacture . |
| 15 | The opening years of the 1970s were a period of easy money . |
| 16 | In effect this was a period of withdrawal from a rigidly structured police world to a world turned upside down ; where , in a ‘ counter-cultural ’ way , we were to find that the strict terms of reference we had carefully built up over the years no longer seemed to have relevance . |
| 17 | It was a period of risk-taking and setting horizons for growth rates which were different to anything I had experienced before . |
| 18 | I remember there was a period when no-one was speaking to anyone and I recall going to the island of Mustique and being there a few weeks just before the final split . |
| 19 | As Robert Wilson , an elder in the Rasharkin church , recognizes , this was a period of unprecedented interest in the Free Church : |
| 20 | The second limitation of this discussion is that it will concentrate on the Graeco-Roman world , as this was a period when coin designs were at their most varied . |
| 21 | Yet this was a period when the English Civil War was at its height ; from the coins themselves we would never have suspected that such a large proportion of minting in the war years of 1639–47 was the result of a commercial agreement between the two countries and not just of the high levels of expenditure caused by the war . |
| 22 | The introductory leaflet did not mince its words : ‘ It was a period when words contradicted deeds , propaganda realities , and when everyday life was full of fear , hypocrisy , and people felt helpless , having been at the mercy of those in power . ’ |
| 23 | For the District it was a period of the funded-tutor enterprise which was later to be challenged through the gradual development of a new regional policy by the Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board . |
| 24 | To the contrary , there was a period in which the riverbed served as a channel for the full ferocity of the storm . |
| 25 | On the evening of Saturday , 22 October l966 , there was a period of free association between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. in D hall . |
| 26 | This was normal with jobs in domestic service and does not imply any disagreement with Jennens , though presumably there was a period when she saw little of her old employer . |
| 27 | The result was a period of internal instability which did nothing to facilitate the attempts which were being made to strengthen France 's external position by a policy of military reform and rearmament . |
| 28 | But before that , ‘ unfortunately , their domestic life was n't very happy and there was a period in their lives when they both lived in the same house but did n't speak to one another . |
| 29 | This phase was to last a year and a half and it was a period of general ineffectuality . |
| 30 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |