Example sentences of "there [was/were] a period " in BNC.
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1 | I remember there was a period when no-one was speaking to anyone and I recall going to the island of Mustique and being there a few weeks just before the final split . |
2 | To the contrary , there was a period in which the riverbed served as a channel for the full ferocity of the storm . |
3 | On the evening of Saturday , 22 October l966 , there was a period of free association between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. in D hall . |
4 | This was normal with jobs in domestic service and does not imply any disagreement with Jennens , though presumably there was a period when she saw little of her old employer . |
5 | But before that , ‘ unfortunately , their domestic life was n't very happy and there was a period in their lives when they both lived in the same house but did n't speak to one another . |
6 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
7 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
8 | There was a period when the police were very busy looking for you . |
9 | There was a period when the Cabinet did not seem and , in fact , was not acting with collective responsibility , because one person was not playing as a member of a team . |
10 | Following their disastrous showing at the polls , there was a period of time-consuming and bitter recrimination followed by a round of resignations . |
11 | With the start of the war , there was a period of silence on the religious front which lasted all of two weeks . |
12 | During the 1880s there was a period of particularly bad summers in the Highlands . |
13 | There was a period in the middle which was n't too good . |
14 | There was a period when only McQueen and Dustin were getting their per diem allowance , something they did not need as much as the rest of the cast and crew . |
15 | There was a period of unrest and excessive zeal , of settling old scores and family feuds — all very mild , really . |
16 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
17 | There is evidence for a minor advance in European glaciers during the period AD 700–900 ( Denton and Karlén 1973 ) and Tooley has demonstrated that there was a period of climatic extremes in addition to a complex marine transgression sequence at this time ; sea-levels rose to a maximum of + 1.2 m above sea-level in c . |
18 | But there was a period in his life at which his suspicion and hostility to others overstepped the bounds of sanity . |
19 | Some years ago in Britain ( 1960-75 ) there was a period of a much higher level of obesity in babies when the general view was that ‘ you can not overfeed a baby ’ . |
20 | There was a period when deviants were publicly humiliated and self-confessions , accompanied with displays of repentance , were deemed necessary rungs in the ladder towards social reintegration . |
21 | There was a period in that decade where you could n't go anywhere without seeing The Stranglers . |
22 | Heidrick and Struggles had a difficult time when the founders , Gardner Heidrick and John Struggles , left the firm in the early 1980s and there was a period of turmoil until an international partnership structure emerged . |
23 | There was a period during which lighting , which for many years had been provided by gas mantles , was starting to be provided by electricity . |
24 | But there was a period when he tired of fashion . |
25 | There was a period of austerity in government fiscal policy when spares could not be imported . |
26 | There was a period of experimentation with materials . |
27 | For a few days there was a period of uncertainty , as Huw waited to see if the Brotherhood were planning another attack upon him — and the Inner Circle of the Guild waited to see if any steps would be taken by the Dockers ' Union , or by the police , in defence of the young man . |
28 | There was a period in my life when I enjoyed ’ — he paused — ‘ shall we say , chemical diversions ? |
29 | Well when they put the flats up , I mean they could n't keep pets , and they had n't got a garden , and there was a period of time when er we were rather concerned . |
30 | Indeed , there was a period about three years ago when it looked as though even 35mm slides might have found a match with the introduction of devices like the VideoShow system which project the image on the computer 's screen directly onto a conventional viewing screen . |