Cold period (3,3)
I believe the answer is:
ice age
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">cold period</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this before)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for ice age that I've seen before include "Glacial era" , "Glacial epoch" , "lengthy number?" , "Pleistocene era" , "Very cold epoch" .)