Example sentences of "[verb] during a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dicey lived during a period of great political and economic change , a period in which the range and the functions of government expanded greatly and in which legislation was used explicitly as a method of changing social conditions . |
| 2 | Dealers are worried that a minority government , which might have to consider seeking a firmer mandate by calling a second general election later in the year , would be hard pressed to keep sterling within its exchange rate mechanism bands during a period of continuing uncertainty . |
| 3 | Appearing during a period that has seen a stream of reassessments of the discovery and development of penicillin , Gordon 's work is his fictional version of the same episode — together with some real events and characters . |
| 4 | The changes in that country also occurred during a period in which education spread rapidly , fertility declined sharply ( with occasional fluctuations ) and family planning knowledge and methods became widely available . |
| 5 | the accident , occurred during a period of Continental Use previously notified to us . |
| 6 | The stimulus to demand would be felt during a period of expansion and so would exacerbate any inflationary pressures which might be building up . |
| 7 | ‘ The challenge will be to maintain morale among the staff because what really matters is to make sure that services to people who need them are not disrupted during a period of change . ’ |
| 8 | If you do not want a baby , but want your IUD removed , this is best done during a period , and you should immediately start using another method of contraception . |
| 9 | This weakness of the banking system came during a period of rapid economic growth . |
| 10 | " In the greater number of epidemic diseases , " McNab went on , " the morbid poison appears to enter the blood in some way , and after multiplying during a period of so-called incubation , it affects the whole system . |
| 11 | Built during a period of architectural optimism , when it was assumed that technology would triumph , it had been laid out in a series of oblong paved courtyards , surrounded by long , low , concrete-faced buildings , remarkable solely for their brutalism . |
| 12 | That these were exceptional arrangements agreed during a period of acute difficulty for the District is revealed in the following table which summarises the provision of Chapter III courses in England and Wales in 1935–36 : |
| 13 | By talking about Renaissance texts , or more accurately texts produced during a period defined by current readers as the Renaissance , we are attempting to provide a type of structure ( how language operated in a defined period ) which deconstruction , in some purist sense , would argue is to miss the point of how language acts as a supplement . |
| 14 | the accident happened during a period of continental use that you had told us about . |
| 15 | the accident happened during a period of continental use that you had told us about . |
| 16 | the accident happened during a period of continental use that you had told us about . |
| 17 | the accident happened during a period of continental use that you had told us about . |
| 18 | Perhaps , humanly speaking , some of us had doubted during a period of economic recession that we would achieve such a level of giving but God had been honoured . |
| 19 | Editors , therefore , elide the problem posed by Shakespearean plays being generated during a period when their textual status was secondary to their performed status . |
| 20 | For example , if household size falls during a period under examination , the study might conclude that living standards had also fallen . |
| 21 | The first reigned during a period of complex political change , and presided over the difficult transition from the Roman Republic and the civil wars which brought it to an end to the monarchical system which became the Roman empire ; Nero 's reign marks the abandonment of the pattern which had been established by Augustus . |
| 22 | An example of such a clause is one which says the employee is not to canvass or solicit during a period of five years from the date of the determination of this agreement for whatever reason any person , company or firm who were customers of the employer with whom he dealt during the last three years of his employment . |
| 23 | The shift between 1931 and 1951 is particularly significant , since the former census was taken during a period of heavy unemployment when employment opportunities for older workers were at a low level and public opinion did not favour efforts to promote it ; whilst in 1951 the exact opposite conditions prevailed . |
| 24 | Furthermore , the trial in Norway was conducted during a period of consistent decrease in the prevalence of smoking among young people in the country and while a comprehensive tobacco control programme was being introduced . |
| 25 | The amounts shown above include regular and final bonuses achieved during a period where at times rates of interest and capital appreciation have been high . |
| 26 | ‘ A measure of the extent to which financial resources obtained during a period are sufficient to cover claims incurred during that period against financial resources . |
| 27 | For determining whether the value and service potential of physical resources have been maintained during a period . |
| 28 | Since both of these effects are likely to occur during a period of higher inflation , the two of them will be working in opposite directions . |