Example sentences of "period when [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1950s was a period when state intervention in childhood was highly visible . |
| 2 | It is almost certainly true to say that there never was any significant period when god worship and religion were as modern man would wish them to be , but instead , that they have always been corrupted , to some extent , to support greed and excess . |
| 3 | The book conveniently divides them into Staffordshire and non-Staffordshire , this is an entirely justifiable division , for throughout the period when lustre decoration was used ( from 1805 to the present ) Staffordshire was the workshop of the world as far as ceramic production was concerned . |
| 4 | ( Tobacco industry employment declined between 1980 and 1988 by 57% , mainly through automation , in a period when tobacco consumption declined by only 20% . ) |
| 5 | The abandonment of the gold standard and the devaluation of sterling removed the theoretical justification which the Treatise supplied for public works in a period when bank rate was too high for purposes of domestic equilibrium . |
| 6 | Ginguene noted that in the period when Baroque style was current , and even after , Opéra soloists sang pretty freely for contexts , he specifies ‘ airs , monologues , duos , etc. ’ 'Singers thought they had the right to hurry or slow down , according to what the words seemed to demand or , more often , according to whim' The ‘ orchestra ’ had to accompany ‘ sometimes note for note , these uneven , shaky lines ’ . |
| 7 | In a period when car crime is a problem , I hope that manufacturers will begin to advertise cars using better security as a selling point . |
| 8 | For example , W. A. Speck 's work on division lists for Queen Anne 's reign shows that the vast majority of MPs voted consistently either Whig or Tory , with a mere 12.2 per cent wavering in their allegiance , whilst in a similar analysis of division lists for William 's reign , usually regarded as a period when party conflict was less clearly defined , Henry Horwitz found that only 14 per cent of MPs voted across party lines . |
| 9 | This was a period when coal consumption , and hence the number of miners employed , was rapidly rising . |