Example sentences of "period during the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This was used to make comma shaped charms ( magatama ) of the kind placed with burials of the Tomb Period during the first half of the first millennium A.D. both in Japan itself and in Korea .
2 The pre-eminent themes of political sociology in its formative period during the first half of the nineteenth century were the social consequences of the emergence of democracy as a form of government and the political significance of the development of social classes on the basis of industrial capitalism .
3 A report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) shows that non-oil commodity prices in dollar terms reached their lowest level in the post-Second World War period during the first quarter of 1987 .
4 Yet by 1914 agriculture was firmly in second place to industry in the American economy and although farmers enjoyed a boom period during the First World War , their problems were to become clear in the 1920s .
5 Apart from a brief period during the First World War , when the Royal Flying Corps had use of the area inside the circuit , Brooklands was used continuously from 1907 to the outbreak of the Second World War .
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