moving a group of items

You should be able to hold down the Ctrl key and click each item that you want to select. Release Ctrl, then click and drag any item and all of the selected ones should move as one unit.

Or if you want to select everything and move them all as a group, Ctrl+A should select all.
 
If the group of items is contiguous (none in the middle that you don't want), you can click on the one furthest top left and then shift-click the one furthest bottom right and it should select everything in between. You can add or subtract from that with the ctrl-click thing as above.

You can also right-click-drag a "lasso" around a group of items and I'm pretty sure you can ctrl-lasso to add other groups to the selection.

Of course, this all assumes that none of those items are "hanging off the edge" or have content outside the time selection you're talking about. You'd have to split first in that case, I think. You can ctrl-drag to copy only the part of an item (or group of items) that is within the time selection, but that doesn't work for just plain move.

Once you've got a selection of multiple items, if you want to make that grouping more permanent and formal, you can hit G and it actually groups them so that many editing processes will affect them all at once. Some things you might do won't affect the whole group, only selected items, but there's an option (right-click the grouping button on the toolbar) "selecting one item in the group selects all" which is convenient for most other stuff.

Now if you actually want to move everything in the project by making a time selection without having to go through splitting items, you can make a time selection and the create a region from that time selection. Then you just slide the whole region around the timeline as you see fit. Makes all the splits for you and pushes things out of the way as necessary.
 
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