Sentence examples for old period from inspiring English sources

"Being distracted by legacies from the old period is a real serious issue," he said.

He was thus lost to the world at the close of an old period and the beginning of a new one.

There is a Maxfield Parrish that was over the bed in "The Postman Always Rings Twice," there are lamps from "Three Wishes," old period pictures, photographs.

The John Galliano scandal, which began in Milan and reached a climax halfway through the week, effectively drew a line under the old period of the rule of the diva designer.

But wandering the small streets where neighbors play board games, and along the boulevards of the old Legation Quarter where a tomblike silence hovers around the state security offices, more than a whiff of the old period — and of the continuing mystery of Pamela's murder — endures.

"It's been a long old period over Christmas and is telling on a small squad, a young squad.

The Mackenzie Lowlands are underlain by flat-lying sedimentary rock of the Cretaceous (i.e., about 100 million years old) and Devonian (about 400 million years old) periods.

On the other hand, over time, it may yet reinvent itself and achieve a modern version of its old periods of dominance.

Still others argue for the inclusion of the old periods Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation into a single period beginning in late antiquity and ending in the second half of the 16th century.

As for my relationship with my father, I think the twelve-year-old period was a big time period.

Genetic studies suggest that humans and Neanderthals mixed in the same 50,000 to 60,000-year-old period, most probably in western Asia.