period
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At 23 years and 148 days today, he's the youngest to net 20 or more goals for a top-flight team in this period.
From BBC
Financial regulators are floating the removal of “quiet periods” restricting when analysts can publish research on their own bank’s transactions.
Tokyo’s long period of negative interest rates and mega-quantitative easing count as the largest monetary experiment in history.
Two buckles were recovered, one dating to the late Roman period and one dating to the post-medieval period.
From BBC
In other words, if stocks fail to rise during this typically strong period, it can signal lingering caution among investors heading into the new year.
From MarketWatch
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