Example sentences of "[verb] in a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been designed in a period of relative economic stability and was not fitted for such tumultuous times . |
| 2 | This yield will fall in a period of inflation because a progressively larger amount of money will be needed to pay for the same quantity of goods and services . |
| 3 | Health : THE CASE FOR NOT MEDDLING WITH THE NHS Whoever wins on Thursday , the only hope for the future of the health service lies in a period of stability , says Christine Doyle |
| 4 | Chapters 4 to 6 are art historical , interpreting about 800 years , beginning with a time when a miniaturist copied approved models with almost or actual religious obedience , and ending in a period in the early Renaissance when an illuminator does not even stand up when the Chancellor of France enters the room or when John of Holland can complain that Jacquemart de Hesdin has stolen his private pattern sheets in 1398 . |
| 5 | During a period of extreme emotional distress , the ending of her first marriage , she became interested in the work of Philip Guston. these paintings ‘ Beggar ’ ( 1982 ) , along with Guston 's later work , are included in a period of art referred to as ‘ Bad Paintings ’ . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , they were greatly concerned with the idea of obtaining exact knowledge of the workings of society , and , living in a period when the natural sciences were making real strides in knowledge , felt that the application of natural science methods to the study of society might produce similar advances in understanding . |
| 7 | We were living in a period of change and he wanted to avoid the danger of rejecting courses of action merely because they had been considered and turned down on some earlier occasion during his leadership . |
| 8 | He explained that since France was living in a period of rapid economic , technological , political , and diplomatic change , she needed a government which could provide sustained and effective leadership . |
| 9 | The temple must have been built and adorned in a period of some twenty years at most , probably less . |
| 10 | During the crisis , there is a ‘ Gestalt switch ’ , which results in a period of ‘ revolutionary ’ science leading to the acceptance of a new paradigm . |
| 11 | Harrison and Wood claim to be writing in a period during which there has been ‘ growth of a critical self-consciousness about the history of Modernism itself ’ . |
| 12 | But plunging enthusiastically into a too strenuous programme is often an extremely painful answer that may result in a period of enforced rest ! |
| 13 | 3.5 With effect from the Possession Date or ( if later ) the date on which the Tenant has obtained all Tenant 's Approvals the Tenant shall have licence and authority to enter upon the Premises for the purpose of carrying out the Tenant 's Works in accordance with clause 3.7 but for no other purpose The problem is that the words " but for no other purpose " could result in a period of non-user from the date of completion of the tenant 's works and the date of the completion of the lease ( see clause 1.15.2 ) and the clause should be amended as follows : |
| 14 | I note that the Opposition 's tax plans have gone back to the drawing board ; after five years of careful preparation , they have been ditched in a period of five weeks . |
| 15 | The New York stock-market had collapsed but five years previously , ushering in a period of need and anguish not only across America and Canada ( New York is but 400 miles from Montreal ) , but throughout Europe , too . |
| 16 | Certainly , it seems very possible that both were produced in a period of reconstruction immediately following the termination of hostilities and the payment of compensation for Mul . |
| 17 | Alternatively a range of different video materials could be used in a period earmarked for video . |
| 18 | Whereas a visit to the Design Museum can feel disconcertingly like an excursion to Covent Garden ( window-shopping interspersed with sups of cappuccino ) , the V&A 's 20th Century Gallery opened in a period where consumerism has become an even more problematic model for museological display . |
| 19 | This project aims to identify the local leaders who were responsible for chapels , schoolrooms and manses in a period of nonconformist growth , to study their place in the religious bodies they served and in the communities where they lived . |
| 20 | However , the return to partial Labour rule did not usher in a period of optimistic progress towards a settlement . |
| 21 | Though their decline is inevitable , and must usher in a period of unrest for the community , the maintenance of their own power adds of course directly to the utility of the governing elite and is a necessary condition for the order and stability of the community . |
| 22 | This new era will usher in a period of restructuring and reconciliation when South Africans ' international relationships can be based on mutual advantage and not on conditions of slave labour , bred of racism . |
| 23 | A number of cases exist where companies have been forced to employ new materials and processes outside their normal ( up until then ) field of operation , resulting in a period of component or equipment failures until the company has been able to acquire that necessary working experience . |
| 24 | This change in relative prices would have been rational if it had reflected any real improvement in the competitive power of electricity ( and there had been a continuing shift in favour of electricity for the whole century ) , but now the shift was artificially exaggerated by historic cost accounting in a period of inflation , and by temporarily depressed investment levels . |
| 25 | In any case any pattern of interaction between popular radicalism and revivalism , whether oscillating or of any other kind , could not be discerned in a period bounded by 1815 . |
| 26 | This will be difficult to do in a period of stagflation . |
| 27 | Practically the whole of Ata'i 's work , on the other hand , is concerned with scholars who lived in a period of relatively rapid elaboration of the hierarchical structure ; and well before Ata'i 's own time the development was nearly complete . |
| 28 | We lived in a period of superstition and dread . |
| 29 | The population of Britain was to rise from between seven and eight million in 1760 to 15 million in 1820 — in other words , it doubled in a period of 60 years . |
| 30 | It was understandably difficult for those whose views had been formed in a period of high unemployment to shift them radically and swiftly . |