Example sentences of "coincided [prep] [art] period " in BNC.

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1 By an irony of fate , abolition coincided with a period of rising crime , both violent and non-violent , in which Britain shared with most other countries on both sides of the Atlantic .
2 We had chosen our visit to coincide with the full moon , but it also coincided with a period of maximum solar flare activity , and on every clear night the Lights treated us to a spectacular show in green and red .
3 These three events also coincided with a period when the character of legal work was changing .
4 As elsewhere in Europe , the Reformation in Slovenia coincided with a period of social unrest which was characterised by a number of peasant revolts .
5 This act certainly constituted a legal precondition to the proclamation of Finland 's neutrality , but it coincided with a period in the mid and late 1950s when for various reasons the notion of neutrality in Europe suddenly gained a positive image among Soviet leaders .
6 The data collection coincided with a period of increasing structural tensions associated with a period of increasing structural tensions associated with reorganisations and amalgamations due to a re-unifying Germany .
7 Preliminary observations suggest that the acceleration of the exodus from the larger cities coincided with a period of intensive family raising and with large-scale clearance of sub-standard housing , while in contrast , the last ten years have witnessed falling fertility , population ageing , higher divorce rates and other changes leading to different housing requirements , as well as government efforts to redevelop inner city areas and curb the rate of decentralization .
8 There was chronic overcapacity on domestic US passenger air routes , and rising fuel prices now coincided with a period of heavily reduced passenger bookings , connected with the weakness of the dollar and with fears arising from the Gulf crisis .
9 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 .
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