Example sentences of "over [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maximum amount of sediment likely to be deposited over that period along the coast generally is about 30 centimetres and we know that hurricanes will certainly rearrange that amount of material . |
| 2 | ‘ It used to , but working with Dave over that period of time means we 've mostly solved the problems . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that that is an impressive increase over that period of years ? |
| 4 | The problem is that we seem to have dropped the Health Service off more and more and more over that period of time , and I think , to be fair , the programme sums it all up , two motions on the Health Service . |
| 5 | I made it clear that our policy was to use that money to reduce the level of the council tax over that period of time . |
| 6 | His 70 appearances were only improved over that period by the evergreen John McCormick , goalkeeper John Jackson and the much younger Mel Blyth , and they tell us something of the fitness and sheer determination of the man . |
| 7 | Ward managers report on expected levels of work over specific period of time throughout a typical week . |
| 8 | The specification will need to be satisfactory over this period with only limited opportunities for a change of policy until the contract finishes . |
| 9 | has fallen over this period from seventy eight per cent to twenty eight per cent . |
| 10 | If the recession lasts much longer , and with present cuts in Government funding , the board will not have enough money to invest to tide itself over this period in which young people face such difficulties . |
| 11 | While this single figure conceals sharp year-to-year fluctuations as well as a secular upward trend , it is noteworthy that sums raised over this period by bond finance ( including convertible bonds ) exceeded those raised by the issue of ordinary shares and also exceeded the sums raised for the government by the sale of gilt-edged securities . |
| 12 | Price changes ( or returns ) can be viewed as caused by the arrival of information Over some period of time the price change ( or return ) is the sum of a large number of random effects . |
| 13 | This rather defeats its theoretical purpose of putting different types of loan over different periods of time on to an identical basis for comparison . |
| 14 | Perhaps , I can then proceed to manipulate these numbers , and use the findings to put forward more precise proposals as to the level of budget , or the way in which the budget should be deployed — in different media , over different periods of time , etc . |
| 15 | Alcohol and other drugs have direct sedative and stimulant effects on the brain , both acting at the same time but over different periods of time . |
| 16 | Furbush ( 1989 ) studied movements in the spot and futures prices of the S&P500 index over five-minute periods in October 1987 . |
| 17 | It is well nigh impossible to compare the rate of crime over extended periods of time ( as Reading 10 , Chapter 5 , taken from Pearson 's study , indicates ) . |
| 18 | Pearson 's study of the history of street crime in Britain clearly illustrates the problem of using criminal statistics as a means for comparing the rate of crime over extended periods of time . |
| 19 | The intention is that over extended periods of time equivalent machines receive an equivalent amount of resource . |
| 20 | The company applies its techniques through workshops or residencies over extended periods of time in hospitals , community centres of special schools . |
| 21 | Pulse arrival times have been recorded by Taylor and his colleagues over extended periods during the last 15 years . |
| 22 | It is important to look at ratio trends over extended periods in order to judge the progress of the company . |
| 23 | It is important to look at ratio trends over extended periods in order to judge the progress of the company . |
| 24 | Staverman and co-workers ( 1956 ) paid particular attention to approximations to the solution of the integral equations used in the exact theory , since , experimentally , observations can only be made over limited periods of time ( in creep for example ) or limited frequency ranges ( in dynamic methods ) whereas the exact theory of linear viscoelasticity requires the use of infinite integrals . |
| 25 | Extended over vast periods of time , the same process could account for the production of all the various species of animals and plants . |
| 26 | But this also means that as the morphology of species matured over great periods of historic time , other forms became more adapted to life on land , while yet others returned to the water to escape the increasing competition . |
| 27 | Over great periods of time , the peat is compressed and turned to coal . |
| 28 | It has also been clear in his methods of training orchestras over long periods of time . |
| 29 | In other words , they are ‘ better designed ’ not simply by chance ( which would be the case if a large single-step mutation occurred ) , but by the accumulation of myriads of single-step mutations aided , over long periods of time , by the natural weeding-out process of those species less successfully adapted for long-term survival . |
| 30 | Anomalous aspects of nature often venerated by ritual over long periods of time become charged with the directed mental/ psychic energy of their race . |