Sentence examples for spell of mild from inspiring English sources

A centuries-long spell of mild, predictable weather blessed Western Europe with abundant crops, healthy populations and budget surpluses sufficient to finance projects like Chartres Cathedral.

In 1954, when he was seven, Norah was over-hastily committed to an asylum after a spell of mild mental illness, and McCarthy sent to live with an aunt.

DESPITE unusual spells of mild weather, part of it called the January thaw, this has been a rough winter for plants.

After a spell of relatively mild weather, temperatures were dropping and snow was in the forecast.

While the insect was historically kept in check by spells of cold weather, years of mild winters have unleashed an outbreak whose spread and severity is unlike anything seen previously.As a result, the province is peppered with billions of dead, grey trees.

Oil prices fell this week because of a milder spell of weather in the northern hemisphere, an increase in American fuel stocks and uncertainty about Iraqi exports.

** Canetti's fierce spell was incongruously broken by the advent of mild, innocent, stammering, hyper-English John Bayley.

Canetti's fierce spell was incongruously broken by the advent of mild, innocent, stammering, hyper-English John Bayley.

Survivors of mild NE compared to a comparison group were not significantly more often more than one grade behind in reading, spelling and arithmetic.

His frenetic stage presence is another way he messes around with context: his persona is mild-mannered, but under the spell of his own beats he becomes Dionysian.

A day after suffering a mild malaria attack, Lindwall gave a spell of four overs which netted him three wickets, bowling at speeds not seen in Australia since Larwood.