crucial period

Experts believe the first 1,000 days of life are a crucial period which can shape a person's future health.

Thus it was that during the crucial period when Hitler was mainly operating by diplomatic bluff and intimidation and did not — yet — possess the military force to fully back up his threats, Lindbergh’s pronouncements had the pernicious effect of leading the Western powers toward submitting to Hitler’s demands at a time when the cost of resistance would have been significantly less than in September 1939, after a year of feverish German rearmament.

For a crucial period of about 3 1/2 years, local decision-making was not accountable to voters.

The publication documented a brief but crucial period in which clothing, especially women’s clothing, became an unprecedented force of cultural and social change.

Williams is going to be questioned over two days as he covers a long and crucial period when the alleged cover up was well under way.