At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it consists of one city, Constantinople, and the Ottoman Turks can encircle it.
I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period.
I want to live a full life - period.
The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
If I inspire you, pay for it, period.
There was a time period where I was obsessed with the rivalry between the Lakers and the Celtics in the 1980s.
The lowest period was when I was with Tottenham, and they loaned me out to Dulwich Hamlet.
The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.
In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced.
I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.
I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
I'm mixed race, and it's often hard for me to fit into period pieces.
Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.
I really love period pieces.
I like period pieces.