Example sentences of "[conj] a brief period " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , apart from the odd practice session and a brief period recovering from illness , Morrissey was completely detached from Marr , Joyce and Rourke . |
| 2 | Despite a programme of Russification ( including a ban on the use of Ukrainian in schools and publications ) , a strongly nationalist movement emerged in the late nineteenth century which led to pressure for greater autonomy and a brief period of independence immediately after the October revolution . |
| 3 | Varieties can develop behavioural ‘ isolating mechanisms ’ , such as differences in courtship , which prevent interbreeding even when it is genetically possible — but a brief period of physical isolation is needed to allow the populations to develop the differences that will prevent them blending back together again if they come into contact . |
| 4 | After a brief period of independence , Soviet rule was established in 1919 and the larger part of historic Belorussia joined the USSR in 1922 . |
| 5 | Her formal education , after a brief period in Islington , was in a school in Heidelberg where , as well as developing her musical talents , she acquired a facility in languages which was to be useful in her later career . |
| 6 | After a brief period soon after trading opened the FTSE dived from its near five point gain to be 14.5 points down at 3044.6 . |