Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such investigators as Rowntree , A. L. Bowley and L. Chiozza Money demonstrated that the disparity between rich and poor and the proportion of the population living in severe poverty changed little over the period . |
| 2 | As was intimated in the introduction , although there is little evidence to suggest that sexual behaviour changed greatly in the period , the feeling remained for many people at the time that this was nevertheless what was happening . |
| 3 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 4 | For instance , building-society deposits , bank cash accounts , and National Savings holdings all rose sharply throughout the period , especially with high interest rates prevailing for almost the whole of the 1970s . |
| 5 | What has changed , and changed radically over the period from the late 1960s to the early 1980s , has been the perception of that culture . |
| 6 | In the area we are particularly concerned with , southwest Cumbria , male cancer rates rose significantly from the period 1969–73 to the period 1974–78 . |
| 7 | William Cobbet passed through during the period of expansion , and hated it ! |
| 8 | Most came over during the period 1955 to 1963 and took what work was commonly available ( the vast majority were unqualified academically ) . |
| 9 | LVMH added £30m to the £246m pre-tax profits Guinness announced yesterday for the period to 30 June , when only a 16 per cent stake was accounted for . |
| 10 | " Month " means a " calendar month " ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s61 ) made up of a period of consecutive days . |
| 11 | The strains of Wagner had certainly filled those rented rooms in Earl 's Court or South Kensington , to the annoyance of the neighbours , though like his practical study of the German language they belonged only to the period of Hitler 's influence upon him . |
| 12 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 13 | My job essentially was to introduce general management , and therefore I er , I was able to use many of the skills which I had acquired in I B M , but of course , I was also part of the Griffiths debate , here I 'm talking about Griffiths Two , not Griffiths One , I was implementing Griffiths One , which was general management , Griffiths Two was a community , the community debate , so I saw something , which I 'm certainly not allowed to quote , of the great debates that went on over the period of eighteen months before the eventual decision was made about community care . |
| 14 | The seasons , if they are important enough , can grab people 's attention in the way that you would n't if the programmes just went out over a period of 16 or 20 weeks . |
| 15 | The level of violence ( which had resulted in some 5,000 deaths since the breakdown of peace talks in June 1990 ) fell dramatically during the period of the ceasefire , although each side accused the other of extensive violations . |
| 16 | The extent and quality of classroom display improved dramatically during the period of PRINDEP 's evaluation , though we became increasingly aware of a tendency towards a certain repetitiveness in colour schemes and styles of mounting , conveying a sense of conformity rather than creativity . |
| 17 | Nizan 's membership of the PCF and his active life as a novelist between 1927 and 1940 coincided precisely with a period described by Lucien Goldmann as a moment of deep structural crisis in early twentieth-century capitalism . |
| 18 | But , as shown in Table 8 , the velocity of circulation of M3 ( and M4 ) , in fact , fell considerably in the period between 1982 and 1988 . |
| 19 | The use of this scheme grew spectacularly during the period between 1984 and 1990 . |
| 20 | Standardisation of time was necessary because cancer incidence is rising slowly in the west of Scotland and because prescribing atenolol increased greatly during the period of study ( fig 1 ) . |
| 21 | The borrowing requirement increased rapidly in the period from the 1960s to the early 1980s , but in 1987 , as a result of tight expenditure control , it was down to 2.6 per cent of the total . |
| 22 | They emerged gradually over a period of half a century , culminating in his book Two New Sciences , which was first published in 1638 , almost a century after the publication of Copernicus 's major work . |
| 23 | Production increased tenfold in the period leading up to the second world war . |
| 24 | After all ceremonial and courtly pomp inspired many of the most important works not just of Purcell but of whole centuries of composers , and record companies , egged on by the period performance boom , are more and more investigating them . |
| 25 | Once again the staff , in all areas of the Trust , responded splendidly during a period of uncertainty and great change and now very much look forward to the challenges of remaining an independent awarding body . |
| 26 | ‘ For your own sake you should get rid of him — or make him live out , ’ Frank said quietly after a period of silence . |
| 27 | Caducius had been found by Alexander McKenn and Maurice Harknett in the 1960s and dived on for a period of time before being forgotten . |
| 28 | It does not matter whether the successor and the tenant resided together in one or more houses or whether the residences were all council houses provided they resided together in a council house at the moment of death and provided that the successor and the tenant resided together during the period of 12 months prior to the death of the tenant . |
| 29 | Only a few city regions and industrial areas gained constantly throughout the period ( figure 2. 11 ) . |
| 30 | A statement that the buildings in Old Aberdeen are beautiful is embedded within an assertion that the speaker was recently in Old Aberdeen , and stayed there for a period , and so she has a warrant for making the statement . |