Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this phase there follows what Freud described as a period of latency during which the sexuality of a child lies dormant . |
| 2 | Spain lived through a period of being isolated from Europe and the rest of the world ; González 's biggest card remains the memory of Franco . |
| 3 | The meeting of the Great Hural came after a period of tension between the government and the opposition over the pace of reform . |
| 4 | It was only when this war was settled , and England embarked on a period of forty years of almost unbroken peace , that settlement began in North America and in the West Indies , and that trade with India became regular and organized enough for the English to set up trading posts there . |
| 5 | The population of North Shields shifted from a period of very rapid growth to one of slow growth . |
| 6 | Dicey lived during a period of great political and economic change , a period in which the range and the functions of government expanded greatly and in which legislation was used explicitly as a method of changing social conditions . |
| 7 | Mr Hurd appealed for a period of calm for the Royal Family . |
| 8 | Certainly his spell in Africa coincided with a period of great upheaval in the former empire countries that accounted for much of Grant 's small overseas markets at the time . |
| 9 | The BBC had for a period turned from county commentaries to one-liners . |
| 10 | Jed had led 8-5 at the turn , with Gregor McKechnie having set the scoreboard in motion after only two minutes with a penalty and Melrose responding after a period of sustained pressure from the home side , through a try by Gary Parker whose turn of speed caused problems for the Jed defence . |
| 11 | This problem fitted the times , a post-Second-World-War Britain emerging from a period of austerity , concerned with increasing output , efficient management , the rational use of resources . |
| 12 | In the 1940s and 1950s , Columbia went through a period known simply as ‘ La Violencia ’ , when some 200,000 were killed for their allegiance to the Liberals or Conservatives . |
| 13 | As elsewhere in Europe , the Reformation in Slovenia coincided with a period of social unrest which was characterised by a number of peasant revolts . |
| 14 | They were well known in Shakespeare 's time , for in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , Titania remarks about a period of unseasonable weather : |