Example sentences of "in [adj -er] periods " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later periods of life I have deplored , as we have all reason to do , a subjugation of an opposite character , and have rejoiced over the remembrances . |
| 2 | The effect of this accounting on a stepped interest bond is that the overall effective interest cost will be charged in each accounting period : an accrual will be made in addition to the cash payments in earlier periods and will reverse , partially offsetting the higher cash payments , in later periods . |
| 3 | Yet something very basic remained in the landscape which was of great importance in later periods . |
| 4 | Within large estates , most of the administration of land , certainly in later periods , was conducted through parishes . |
| 5 | Surviving examples include the Church of S. Salvador at Travanca , the Cathedral at Evora and the Church of the Convent of Christ at Tomar , all twelfth century but with considerable alterations in later periods . |
| 6 | Mainz Cathedral is immense and was altered in later periods when the crossing towers were rebuilt in different styles and houses were constructed abutting on to and becoming part of the cathedral flanks . |
| 7 | Though it has been altered in later periods , it retains some Gothic features . |
| 8 | It has been substantially altered in later periods and has a largely classical , dull exterior . |
| 9 | Originally the church had one dome raised on a tall drum but in later periods further domes were added so that now there are six . |
| 10 | The other two churches are less interesting due to alterations and restorations in later periods . |
| 11 | My argument does not even assume that it was a dominant way of thinking in earlier periods . |
| 12 | In earlier periods , some metal was traded across the Sahara Desert . |
| 13 | The effect of this accounting on a stepped interest bond is that the overall effective interest cost will be charged in each accounting period : an accrual will be made in addition to the cash payments in earlier periods and will reverse , partially offsetting the higher cash payments , in later periods . |
| 14 | In earlier periods , ‘ foreign devils ’ brought with them more than just strange clothes and hairstyles but social and political doctrines as well . |
| 15 | A national industrial relations system which had its formative stages during the past 20 years is more likely to accord a greater role to the state , for instance , than those developed in earlier periods when the government 's role as employer and regulator was less pervasive . |
| 16 | Readership or audience numbers are no longer as crucial for the profitability of newspapers , TV channels , or radio stations as in earlier periods . |
| 17 | Although Russia 's eastern expansion was much less extensive than in earlier periods , she increased her influence over northern Persia and joined in the international scramble for influence in China . |
| 18 | In earlier periods , this role of religious belief in regulating scientific methodology was extremely common . |
| 19 | But whereas such poems are rare in earlier periods , in twelfth-century Europe they multiply so explosively that the phenomenon can not be explained merely as the reflection of a greater number of extant manuscripts . |
| 20 | It differs widely from marriage as seen in earlier periods of social development or in some other Western countries . |
| 21 | By contrast , the regulation of the international economy in earlier periods had been under the domination of London , pivoting around London 's capital markets and the pound sterling which acted as the main form of international money . |
| 22 | In earlier periods pressures to provide an education service fitted to the needs of the society have been observed . |
| 23 | Thus while anyone in the world , with normal physical resources , can watch dance or look at sculpture or listen to music , still some forty per cent of the world 's present inhabitants can make no contact whatever with a piece of writing , and in earlier periods this percentage was very much larger . |
| 24 | Revisions in investment intentions were generally smaller in the more stable and buoyant economic environment of the mid to late 1980s than in earlier periods of greater uncertainty . |
| 25 | No doubt in some cases this was true , but as research has indicated a much denser pattern of settlement in earlier periods , and as continuity seems to be the norm , the role of churches has required re-examination . |
| 26 | We now know that there was a larger population , more sites in earlier periods , and greater continuity of land use , if not actual settlement sites , into later periods , and therefore there was less opportunity for colonisation and the creation of new settlements . |
| 27 | However , there are large numbers of settlements , particularly in earlier periods , which are not near water , and so it is obviously not an essential consideration ( Fig 57 ) |
| 28 | This transhumance to distant resources is often thought of only in connection with more primitive and foreign communities , but it was certainly common in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times and must have been in earlier periods as well ( Figs. 11 , 59 and 93 ) . |
| 29 | In the Western democracies of the late twentieth century the state has taken on an entirely different character from that which it had in the period of laissez-faire capitalism , or in earlier periods , when its functions were mainly confined to tax collecting , internal repression , and external conflict with other states ; now it is responsible in addition for the operation of a great range of public services as well as a general regulation of the whole economic system . |