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On one hand, it wants to be a thoughtful, adult romantic drama that happens to be set during a period of rather ghastly civil war.

This season's opening episode was set during a summer that Frankie kept trying to turn into a perfect memory.

The story is set during a period when membership in various exclusive social or collegial clubs could determine one's path in life.

4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days was set during a single wintry afternoon and evening in 1987 during the rule of Ceausescu and centres around two female students sharing a room in a bleak university dormitory.

It is set during a reunion of the distinguished Ring family in a hypothetical city in a hypothetical state; it's called Newport, R.I., but the state is the size of America and possessed of vast mountainous regions.

It is probably not a coincidence that Boxing Day, about fighting against the odds for a second chance, is set during a time of the year associated with reflection and reprieve.

A CHRISTMAS TALE The French director Arnaud Desplechin spins another of the sprawling family dramas that are his specialty; this one is set during a Christmas holiday that brings together Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni and Melvil Poupaud.

In 2008 Campbell-Brown complained that sprinting world records were out of reach for women, with suggestions that they had been set during a period when anti-doping tests were not as stringent as in the modern era.

PG-13, 104 minutes "The Cuckoo" is set during a confusing period at the end of World War II, when the Nazi occupiers of Finland were in retreat from the advancing Russian army.

My play is set during a promotional interview for that project with the US journalist EM Halliday, who came tantalisingly close to making the supposed assassin reveal the truth about that night.

But her latest book is set during a more recent and forbidding era: that of Mao's Great Leap Forward, which began in 1958 and mandated the collectivization of Chinese agriculture and led to catastrophic famine in the early 1960s.