Example sentences of "during the period " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the period of 1984–5 , more than 2,800 Sri Lankans sought asylum in the UK and in May 1985 , a visa requirement was imposed on the nationals of Sri Lanka , the first time such a requirement was imposed on the nationals of a Commonwealth country . |
| 2 | There was to be an expression of a certain solidarity between members of both the catholic and protestant working classes in the Belfast demonstration of 1932 against the inadequate poor relief during the period of particularly high unemployment . |
| 3 | During the period of the Stormont parliament , half the seats were uncontested . |
| 4 | During the period 1947–51 , an inordinate delay on the part of the government was experienced in bringing forward the requisite bill legalizing adoption , despite considerable pressure from prospective adoptive parents and adoption agencies . |
| 5 | It was during the period of 1943–1945 that his political awakening took place . |
| 6 | During the period 1955 to 1978 I moved across classificatory police boundaries on more than one occasion . |
| 7 | During the period we were watching , we counted between 2,200 and 2,300 going into the launderette . |
| 8 | During the period of entry , interest rates may have to be kept at the present emergency level , but it is an emergency level , a punishment for past sins of credit creation and lax management . |
| 9 | During the period of field-work the sorts of crime that occurred in Easton under this heading included murder and major robbery , possession of drugs , breaking and entering , car chases for stolen vehicles , and the occasional sex-related crime . |
| 10 | Peasants told his collaborators that under NEP conditions not even the poorest received financial help and advice on sowing and agricultural methods from the local Soviets , as they had done previously , during the period of War Communism . |
| 11 | All had served for state organizations during the period 1917–21 . |
| 12 | Trade-union leaders , hailed in the press as industrial statesmen during the period of the fiat-rate wage policy , were now denounced as over-mighty tyrants . |
| 13 | Although the Commonwealth immigration acts since 1962 had slowed the inward flow from Commonwealth countries to a trickle , the problems of assimilating the black population now resident were as acute as ever , especially during the period of rapidly rising unemployment . |
| 14 | The battles over divorce during the period covered by Stone were about the licence to remarry , that is , about the formal recognition that it was possible fully to dissolve the marital contract . |
| 15 | In many respects , Finniston was ahead of his time in the management policies he adopted during the period he was chairman of British Steel but he stresses that commercial strategy without enlightened personnel policies can never be successful . |
| 16 | Of forty-seven painters documented in Cuzco during the period , thirty-five were Indians , seven criollos or mestizos , four Spaniards , and one Italian . |
| 17 | The work was carried out during the period 1980–1 and the existing building construction was found to be generally in good condition . |
| 18 | Different books of the New Testament have different ways of describing the indescribable , that is , the nature of Christ , and the first three centuries of Christendom are a history of ceaseless dispute among the most learned doctors of the Church as to what this nature was , and how it was made manifest during the period of the Incarnation . |
| 19 | Influenced by the lower pound , earnings jumped by 22 per cent during the period and over the nine months . |
| 20 | ‘ During the period 1946 through 1953 ’ , the Randall commission of the US Congress on foreign economic policy reported * , ‘ the United States transferred through gifts and loans $33billion of goods and services , exclusive of military items . |
| 21 | Within the last 18 months , the company has sold : its European silicones business to Rhone-Poulenc for £30million ; four businesses from its Canadian offshoot CIL ; a computer software company to managers ; a West German printing inks business ; its over-the-counter drugs business in the US and Savlon in Britain ; a Canadian building products business to Trafalgar House ; and its Coopers Animal Health , which it owned with Wellcome , to Chicago-based Pitman-Moore ; During the period it has bought : Cambridge research Biochemicals ; a privatelyowned US acrylics company , K-S-H ; Rayca Chemical Corporation , which makes chemicals for the US textiles industry . |
| 22 | IF ONLY the woman had paused for a moment to inspect the hastily scrawled felt tip notice at the top of the stairs : ‘ I am sorry for any inconvenience caused to all our customers during the period that the down escalator has been out of service . |
| 23 | ‘ The Poetry of Perestroika ’ is an anthology of poems that were written , or published for the first time , during the period when the bureaucratic grip was gradually loosened . |
| 24 | Fuelled by low stocks and production problems , prices have almost doubled during the period . |
| 25 | This last quality — encouraged by Ashcroft Noble — he had learned to recognize in himself during the period of growth between the boy naturalist of The Childhood and the much-sought-after undergraduate writer of Lincoln College who breathes freely through the ornate pages of his own Oxford . |
| 26 | But there are few definite sources for Thomas 's activities — and even less for his thoughts , opinions , and attitudes — during the period between 30 March 1896 , the end of his nature diary ( the appendix to The Woodland Life ) , and his entry into Oxford . |
| 27 | During the period from 1697 to 1720 , however , the higher Britannia standard became the legal requirement . |
| 28 | Thus during the period of restrictions the contras grew , and occasionally even thrived , apparently on air : or on nothing more than the scattered largesse of rich Americans . |
| 29 | During the period 1975–9 many among them anticipated government controls and the abolition of private retail trade . |
| 30 | Arran accepted the inevitable , and made way for Mary of Guise , in return for various financial inducements for himself and his family , and a discharge securing him from any actions against him for anything he had done during the period of his regency . |