Example sentences of "very [adj] period of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were then both at a very comfortable period of life , and I do n't know why no one has ever prayed to the gods for perpetual middle age . |
| 2 | It was tolerated well enough to become a useful drug , but it had a very brief period of action ; 6-MP is attacked by the enzyme xanthine oxidase , a normal constituent of the human body ( and of widespread occurrence elsewhere ) and is converted to a substance , thio-uric acid , which is not active against tumours . |
| 3 | Cotswold Wildlife Park aspires to show animals to people — so that they can come to understand and respect all forms of wildlife ; to understand what is special about each species , and how the various species have evolved and adapted over very long periods of time , adjusting and changing to survive in habitats from many parts of the earth . |
| 4 | Therefore , it is dangerous to try to explain present-day landforms merely by the operation of present processes of erosion acting over very long periods of time . |
| 5 | On the other hand all modern anthropologists and archaeologists would agree with the view that for a very long period of history mankind has existed solely by hunting , fishing , and gathering , and that such a technological stage always precedes domestication of plants and animals . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's the kind of feeling that a new world has broken , that you get after any very long period of office by one party . |
| 7 | For , despite acquiring a mass of archival material stretching over a very long period of time , the Chinese never developed anything corresponding to the modern Western concept of history . |
| 8 | The fact that it is very difficult to do does n't prevent a lot of people wishing to achieve it , but it is very seldom that , in the industrial world , anybody has achieved and held continuously a pre-eminent position over a very long period of time . |
| 9 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond . |
| 10 | One possibility would be a statutory reformulation of Rylands v. Fletcher shorn of the qualifications and defences which so emasculate it now , perhaps on the lines of the Restatement , which imposes strict liability on one who carries on an ‘ abnormally dangerous activity , ’ but this would be open to varying judicial inclinations and would give rise to considerable uncertainty for a very long period of time . |
| 11 | One , for example , oh five , six years ago , perhaps more , time passes so quickly erm on the Lewes to Wych Cross road , closed the road at Dane Hill for a very long period of time , while the road was completely reconstructed . |
| 12 | Earth science papers have a very long period of use , compared to physics or engineering , but there is variation between sub-disciplines . |
| 13 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 14 | In my view , accuracy can only be assured over very short periods of time , after which the refereeing panel must receive a proper rest . |
| 15 | Their specialism is in lending and borrowing for very short periods of time from one day to up to about three months . |
| 16 | Payment should be made within seven days of Overdrive 's invoice — a very short period of credit in the haulage industry , it will be noted . |
| 17 | Unlike men , who are always fertile , women have a very short period of fertility . |
| 18 | In a very short period of time the education officer has probably found him/herself in school discussing these very issues with headteachers at the same time as presenting an interpretation of the detailed policy position of the elected members . |
| 19 | But unless you are absolutely certain that you will be able to get back on top of things within a very short period of time , do n't do it . |
| 20 | In these tests , two lines of obviously different lengths are exhibited for a very short period of time , and the subject has to say whether the right or the left line was the longer . |
| 21 | And then there was this tremendous musical development in a very short period of time — one or two generations — and by the twenties they 're playing jazz-swing , very well . ’ |
| 22 | Growing sugar and preparing it for shipping to London was harder work than growing and curing tobacco , and a much larger labour force was needed for the process of harvesting the cane and crushing it which had to be done in a very short period of time . |
| 23 | The SS-1 supercomputer is nearly finished , but some parts still must be completed , the company told the Milwaukee Sentinel : ‘ In a very short period of time , we could be walking that machine out the door to a customer , ’ a spokesman told the Sentinel — ‘ It 's just a shame that IBM does n't have the vision they ought to have . ’ |
| 24 | but unless you are absolutely certain that you will be able to get back on top of things within a very short period of time , do n't do it . |
| 25 | If the oil film breaks down momentarily for a very short period of time that little bit of carbon that four percent carbon in the cast iron will actually stop the aluminium sticking to the cylinder . |
| 26 | So if we hear any screeching noises or bells , which er do n't turn off after a very very short period of time , we are to er make our way in an orderly fashion to the er base of the staircase of the fire escape , following the fire escape er signs . |
| 27 | Virgin will not pull it off if they add too much capacity in too many routes in a very short period of time , because filling capacity is becoming increasingly difficult . |
| 28 | But within a very short period of time the ideological balance of power in the town shifts dramatically . |
| 29 | Comparison of the contents of the first two editions of Craig 's ‘ Geology of Scotland ’ , published in 1965 and 1983 , reveals just how completely and all-pervasively this change took place over a very short period of time . |
| 30 | Alright , but you know , you 've got so little time , you know , fifteen minutes is very , very short period of time , so whatever you say |