Sentence examples for period toward from inspiring English sources

Over a fifteen-week period toward the end of the following year, "60 Minutes" was ranked first six times and finished lower than third only once.

With the advent of the Protoliterate period toward the end of the 4th millennium bce, the cylinder seal came into use.

Farthest from Jewish roots perhaps was Copland's piano trio "Vitebsk," tough, no-nonsense music fitting nicely into what might be called the composer's "grim period" toward the end of the 1920's.

Fashionistas say he gave Boss a sheen it did not have four years ago and point out that he spectacularly defied the slump elsewhere in the men's tailored clothing industry caused by the trend in that period toward corporate casual.

Mr. Harrison was one of its five primary architects and, for a brief period toward the end of the project, the chief architect; he did not oversee the entire project.

Nobuhiro Ikuro, head of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency in Egypt, said Japan could be willing to do more: "Our current policy is to assist this crucial transition period toward democracy," he said late in January.

Most of the induction arrows for short periods point toward the thick sediments deposited within the Cambay rift zone.

In earlier periods toward the beginning of the century, you'll notice the monthly "slugs" are more tightly compressed, indicating most of those months landed within a narrower temperature range.

The antique tradition of illusionistic naturalism continued in painting in Rome through the early Christian period; but toward 600 it weakened, and figures became flat and insubstantial.

"We are in a transition period, migrating toward a world where you are going to get the content you want without commercials," said Jonathan Band, a lawyer and advocate for consumer choice.

During this same period, especially toward the end of the 19th century, the tales of missionaries, traders, and travelling adventurers included an abundance of miscellaneous information that was collected in such works as Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough (1890) and Ernest Crawley's Mystic Rose (1902).