"period" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A period of poor nutrition nearly always precedes an attack.
- There have been six such periods, preceding the economic collapses of 1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929.
- The proposals will be in effect for the 16-week regulated period preceding the poll.
- Only once did I, in my trances, get a hint of the period preceding the time spent on the island.
- This time a long period on the firing line preceded Hamilton's entrance into the harbor.
- He was at Warsaw during the troubled period immediately preceding the second partition.
- His family's presence in the country traced back to the period preceding the American Revolution.
- This refers to a period preceding, by three or four years, the emigration to Medina.
- A somewhat similar pattern may be detected in the periods preceding the rise of most movements.
- In the period just preceding the Civil War, other interests became subordinate to those of national concern.
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