Example sentences of "over [art] period of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seasonal variations , of course , normally occur over the period of one year : annual unemployment figures , therefore , can not be seasonally adjusted . |
| 2 | Her bilirubin concentration , which had begun to fall after stent removal , continued to improve and the steroids were slowly reduced to zero over a period of two months . |
| 3 | Out of a total of seventeen boys from this group interviewed over a period of one year , no fewer than ten had been in trouble with the police for offences not connected with activities at football matches . |
| 4 | Patsy and I corresponded over a period of four months . |
| 5 | Continental basins generally seem to be long-lived features with a subsidence history often extending over a period of 100 Ma or more . |
| 6 | The insecurities of life in the border districts , maturing over a period of 14 years , had produced Poles who were very Polish , and Germans who were very German . |
| 7 | To avoid settlement problems at this location a surcharge embankment was constructed and monitored over a period of 8 months . |
| 8 | Designed by John Carr of York and built over a period of thirteen years between 1759 and 1772 , its spectacular interior boasts exquisite plasterwork ceilings by the Scottish architect Robert Adam decorated by Angelica Kaufman , Biagio Rebecca and Antonio Zucchi . |
| 9 | Although acrylic varnishes are dry in about 30 minutes , they continue to harden over a period of 24–48 hours , but here again this time may vary between different makes . |
| 10 | My colleagues and I in Wales Link were greatly looking forward to her visit , planned over a period of 18 months . |
| 11 | The photographs were taken over a period of ten years , and eventually they were brought together in a book in 1960 ; ten of the book 's essays originally appeared in Vogue , where the appealing mix of an artist 's conversation along with Liberman 's descriptions and commentary succeeded well . |
| 12 | The cases extend over a period of ten years . |
| 13 | Average response speed tended to decrease over a period of twenty minutes in sleep-deprived subjects , unlike in rested controls . |
| 14 | The government would compensate the nobility immediately and the peasantry would repay the government with annual redemption dues spread over a period of forty-nine years . |
| 15 | 4.15 In Povey v Governors of Rydal School [ 1970 ] 1 All ER 841 the plaintiff was awarded £8,400 to cover the cost of renewing over a period of 25 years the special hydraulic lifting appliance required to lift his wheel-chair in and out of a motor car . |
| 16 | The effect of these regulations , so far as the Woolwich Building Society was concerned , was to subject it over a period of 24 months ( 6 April 1986 to 5 April 1988 ) to tax on 29 months of income , amounting to an excess of some £76m . |
| 17 | The pictures taken over a period of 30 years by late showbusiness cameraman Dezo Hoffman are to be sold by Phillips in London on April 22 . |
| 18 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 19 | After gorging itself it would lie down and go into a digestive torpor , and could alternately eat and doze over a period of several weeks . |
| 20 | One of the advantages of using drama in this way ( when the narrative continues over a period of several weeks ) is that both the teacher and the children can change roles , enabling us to look at any given topic from different points of view . |
| 21 | Do this exercise three times and then increasing over a period of three weeks to six times . |
| 22 | This new venture aims over a period of three years to train up to ninety students not only as teachers of BSL but as BSL English interpreters . |
| 23 | The government provided compensation for the nobility , while the peasantry were to repay the government in annual redemption dues spread over a period of 49 years . |