These periods of optimism don't mean we're set for a fall.

In western music, the classical period means music from about 1750 to 1825.

She'd had no morning sickness, after all, and a single missed period meant nothing by itself.

But for an unlucky majority, the immediate postwar period means lost jobs and higher prices.

A period of ill health meant his next album did not appear until 1998.

I wasn't dumb enough to pretend not to know what a missed period meant, under the circumstances.

The issue here was what exactly the fixed period of time means.

He has to recognize that splitting into two means a certain period of vulnerability for both companies.

A period of amateur weapons means that power is fairly equal, and democracy rises.

And a light wind or a period of calms could mean no current at all.