The long postwar period of prosperity, when it could still be thought of as the workshop of the world, was followed by decades of underperformance and relative decline.

It coincided with the slide from a long period of prosperity into the dark decade of stagflation.

The gawa reached their greatest period of prosperity in the 15th century.

The town's period of prosperity in the 17th and 18th centuries was due to manufactures of glass and malt, and trade in corn and wool.

The period of prosperity, however, did not last long.