Example sentences of "this [was/were] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect this was a period of withdrawal from a rigidly structured police world to a world turned upside down ; where , in a ‘ counter-cultural ’ way , we were to find that the strict terms of reference we had carefully built up over the years no longer seemed to have relevance . |
| 2 | As Robert Wilson , an elder in the Rasharkin church , recognizes , this was a period of unprecedented interest in the Free Church : |
| 3 | The second limitation of this discussion is that it will concentrate on the Graeco-Roman world , as this was a period when coin designs were at their most varied . |
| 4 | Yet this was a period when the English Civil War was at its height ; from the coins themselves we would never have suspected that such a large proportion of minting in the war years of 1639–47 was the result of a commercial agreement between the two countries and not just of the high levels of expenditure caused by the war . |
| 5 | This was a period of rapid development in the technology and tactics of warfare ; gone were the Frankish troops of the time of Charlemagne , who were expected to be riders , foot soldiers , swordsmen , spearsmen and archers all at once . |
| 6 | Some commentators — particularly Cockburn and Dearlove — have argued that this was a period of structural change in which local government became more clearly tied to the interests of capitalism and closer to business interests . |
| 7 | This was a period when coal consumption , and hence the number of miners employed , was rapidly rising . |
| 8 | If we are to believe late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century etiquette writers ( which I do n't altogether ) this was a period when it was thought gross to talk about food except to your cook , and in bad taste to discuss your host 's wine . |
| 9 | This was a period of steady economic growth with demand for labour almost everywhere in the country . |
| 10 | Thus , particularly in the north , this was a period of shifting climates and habitats , in which forest , tundra and ice-sheets replaced each other repeatedly and rapidly . |
| 11 | This was a period of graft and unrestrained corruption . |
| 12 | This was a period of intense isolation , in which he sank into nervous apprehensiveness and paranoia . |
| 13 | Butzer ( 1980 ) highlights the fact that this was a period when drier conditions prevailed in the wheat- and corn producing belts of North America and the Soviet Union , while moderately increased precipitation occurred in the tropical and subtropical arid zones . |
| 14 | This was a period of growth in the size of government in terms of budgets and the areas of service provision . |
| 15 | This was a period of great advances in technology , particularly in communication . |
| 16 | More fundamentally , this was a period when British political parties were fragmented and governments correspondingly unstable . |
| 17 | This was a period when work in semantics as a component of linguistics was developing extremely quickly : it was the era of the dispute between generative semantics ( , , , etc. ) and interpretive semantics ( , , etc . ) |
| 18 | from October to January nineteen twenty seven , and this was a period that was , is really characterized by revolutionary action . |