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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 For all of these reasons , and unlike the earlier biblical period , only men were allowed to perform the operation ( see Kidd .
2 Between 1971 and 1976 , the annual growth rate fell to 1.8 per cent and in the following five-year period it was only 0.5 per cent .
3 It had ceased to operate as a flour mill as early as 1938 and in the immediate post-war period it was used as a seed store .
4 Before World War II and in the immediate post-war period industry-wide collective agreements continued to be negotiated between individual employers ' associations and trade unions with little intervention from their respective central organisations .
5 This was not an avantgarde approach to theatre , but at that time , and in the preceding medieval period , people had no concept of the past being significantly different from the present .
6 And over the whole six-year period 1979-85 the average growth of M3 was 13 per cent , which happens to be exactly the same as it was between 1965 and 1973 , the period analysed by William Rees-Mogg in his famous article in The Times ( 13 June 1976 ) , ‘ How a 9.4 per cent excess money supply gave Britain 9.4 per cent inflation ’ , which denounced the conduct of economic policy in the early Seventies .
  Next page