Example sentences of "about the [det] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about the same period Youatt remarked that most of Somerset 's cattle were good red Devons but that a few in northern Somerset were particoloured Devons and some in the west of the county were yellowish rather than deep red or were sheeted ( that is to say , with broad white belts ) . |
| 2 | By the side of Mrs Van Butchell is the body of another woman , embalmed by a different process about the same period : she is even more ugly than her neighbour . |
| 3 | At about the same period the Mongol-speaking Buryats moved into the steppes and forests around the southern end of Lake Baikal , where they subjugated the previous inhabitants . |
| 4 | This was in the 19th century and at about the same period more graves were found in Upper Halling , on the south side of Chapel Lane . |
| 5 | My interest in North Plains people in 1750 to 1850 which is about the same period for the you know cowboys goes back many years to my pre- writing days . |