Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the [adj] period " in BNC.

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1 Even those who support the view of a gradual assimilation of legacy and trust in the classical period in order to account for examples of loose language have some difficulty here : for nobody really wants to suppose that this process had got very far in Celsus ' day .
2 Hence the focus is on local politics , on the ways in which these have changed and developed over the post-war period and on the concepts and theories used to account for such changes .
3 All sorts of schemes were thought up to keep people busy and occupied during the trying period of ‘ waiting to be demobbed . ’
4 Hall gives special significance , though , to ‘ popular morality ’ and the ways in which ‘ new kinds of commonsense ’ have been established and imposed in the recent period .
5 Label and freeze for the recommended period , bearing in mind that the lower your freezer temperature , the longer food can be frozen .
6 The general interest of US business and finance in the postwar period , perceived as such from 1947 onwards at least , was that the capitalist world as a whole should expand rapidly , with as open access as possible for US commodities and capital .
7 At the same time , UM imports had been steadily rising , including very substantial imports from UM Vehicle Divisions on the Continent which had greatly expanded their total output and exports over the same period .
8 This pleasure would appear to have been remote from the adult satisfactions mentioned in the previous paragraph and is a manifestation of the ‘ joie de vivre ’ which is at the very heart of the urge for life , which is itself the product of ‘ desire ’ as introduced and discussed in the Second Period .
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