final period
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- noun
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último período
- Corby held a 2-1 advantage in the final period, but Grajales tied it up with the riding time point and forced overtime.
- enter the final period
- minutes in the final period
Examples
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Paul Henderson scored the winning goal with thirty-four seconds to go in the final period.
Fiction book (1996) -
The Nuggets scored the first 9 points of the final period, opening up a 14-point lead and coming away with a convincing 117-104 victory over the Heat.
Blog text (19) -
Going into the final period, every major player's minutes were under control.
Blog text (2) -
Another goal conceded, and it would have been a very nervous final period of the match.
Blog text (2) -
Far from taking advantage of the desperation of their rivals, they were dominated during a great part of the final period.
Blog text (19) -
The game was tied at 65 early in the fourth when the Wizards went cold, scoring only 13 points in the final period.
Blog text (32) -
But in the final period, we saw a team with more turnovers (five) than shots made (four).
Blog text (2) -
Felton scored 25 points, eight in the fourth quarter, to help New York erase a 12-point deficit in the final period.
Blog text (5) -
Cleveland would post their lowest scoring quarter of the game, yet Dallas clung to just a two-point lead entering the final period.
Blog text (31) -
The Thunder made 10 of their 15 shots in the final period.
How Late
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'final period' is a direct adjective+noun composition: 'final' means last and 'period' means an interval, so the sense 'the last segment or phase' is immediately predictable from the parts. This compositional pattern is cross‑linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Final period comes from the two words final (the last) and period (a set part of a game). In sports the match is split into parts and the last part is the final period, the time when the result is often decided, so it means 'the last part of play'.