Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would certainly be necessary to make some further enquiries among the tourists , particularly about their activities during the key period between the time Kemp had arrived back in Oxford , and the pre-dinner drinks when everyone except Eddie Stratton , it appeared , was accounted for . |
| 2 | And fifteen minutes later , with all the completed questionnaires returned , there was good reason to suppose that Morse could be right , since three of those concerned , Eddie Stratton , Howard Brown , and John Ashenden , appeared temporarily unable to provide corroboration of their individual whereabouts and activities during the key period of the previous afternoon — the afternoon when the original groups , three of them , had been re-formed slightly ( following Kemp 's telephone call ) , and when anyone wishing to absent himself for some purpose would have been presented with a wonderful opportunity so to do . |
| 3 | The difference in motility indices for the total period and the postprandial period did not reach statistical significance . |
| 4 | Without autonomous change in tastes , or in technological possibilities , or in the availability of resources , no one can have any interest in altering his plans for the succeeding period . |
| 5 | The worst-affected region was the south-east with fraud cases for the six-year period totalling almost £1.21 billion . |
| 6 | This situation reflects the spectacular 94 per cent reduction in total national lead emissions during the 1978–89 period . |
| 7 | And thirdly we have to satisfy you that in the circumstances of the operation the police were justified in restraining Mr with handcuffs for the short period of time that he was restrained and in addition Mrs who you will remember was restrained in her lounge , she was told she could n't leave the lounge , again for a few minutes . |
| 8 | Debt service ratio : This ratio is calculated by combining debt principal repayments and interest payable in a single year and dividing it by the country 's exports for the equivalent period . |
| 9 | Thus birth control groups during the inter-war period were careful to argue that the use of birth control would not necessarily lead to an increase in childlessness or very small families , but rather would result in better planned families and healthier mothers and children . |
| 10 | Calves may show clinical signs during the prepatent period and occasionally a massive infection can cause severe dyspnoea of sudden onset often followed by death in 24-48 hours . |
| 11 | Greeks , Romans , Byzantines , Bulgars , Turks , Albanians and Vlahs all at different times during the medieval period made their cultural , political and ethnic contributions to the Macedonian melting pot . |
| 12 | Naturally , the planets will show individual shifts during the same period . |
| 13 | But the BBC 's share over all was still a healthy 58.4pc of all radio listeners during the same period . |
| 14 | Whereas Antarctic mean October total ozone levels were between 280 and 330 Dobson units during the 1957–76 period , they dropped to 225–250 by the early 1980s and to less than 200 in some years during the late 1980s ( figure 6.5 ) . |
| 15 | Gonzalez-Palacios also introduces the latest issue of the Antologia delle Belle Arti , which he edits , concentrating for a third time on the decorative arts during the Neo-classical period . |
| 16 | The development officer in Ipswich had four such clients during the same period . |
| 17 | They compared the actual returns on 60 US mutual funds for the three-year period 1982–4 with returns that would have been made if a specified strategy for investing in S&P500 futures had been followed . |
| 18 | Results were expressed as basal acid output ( BAO ) , defined as the mean of the last two recordings during the basal collection , and peak acid output ( PAO ) defined as the highest mean obtainable from two consecutive recordings during the stimulated period . |
| 19 | In the same way , he might have looked at the conflicts between institutions , genres and styles during the 1890–1930 period ( for instance , between old-fashioned vaudeville and new syncopated styles ; or between the requirements of public dance and private listening ) , rather than just the more homogeneous synthesis established by the time it ended . |
| 20 | Losses for the same period last year totalled 33,085 . |
| 21 | Many of the characteristics of the postwar period which we associate with Fordism , for example , high levels of military spending or private consumption , could just as well be explained in terms of the political institutions which shaped the Fordist era . |
| 22 | On this basis English became more closely attuned to producing individual citizens capable of full and critically evaluative responses , rather than the professional scholars and readers of the pre-war period . |
| 23 | As for the Jews of the biblical period , they of course knew of Yavan , which designated all the Greeks rather than specifically the Ionians . |
| 24 | The lectures which he delivered in America on this visit are not of crucial critical significance and , like other addresses of the same period , they are chiefly remarkable for the fact that he felt able to talk at some length about himself and his work — as if he realized that audiences came to see him , rather than hear anything he might care to say . |
| 25 | The book , as we gather from a plan in his notebooks of the same period , was to deal with four large areas : ethics ; aesthetics ; religion and mythology ; and politics , law and education . |
| 26 | Among the few secular constructions of the Romanesque period in France is the famous bridge in Provence at Avignon , the Pont S. Bénézet , built in 1177–85 by the Sacred Guild of Bridge Builders across the river Rhône . |
| 27 | These flourished in the waterlogged swamps of the Carboniferous period . |
| 28 | The involvement of the aristocracy in the civil wars and the disruptions of the Merovingian period is complex . |
| 29 | Sporting gentlemen of the pre-Victorian period saw no harm in making money through playing games so long as this was a matter of gambling ; nor did they mind mixing with others of a lower class , who derived the bulk of their income in this way , provided distinctions of birth were recognized and preserved . |
| 30 | This hedonistic surge to the seaside and the camp hailed a new phase of consumer capitalism far removed from both the collective initiatives of traditional working-class culture and the improving motives of the pioneering holiday organizations of the pre-affluent period . |