Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] over [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such investigators as Rowntree , A. L. Bowley and L. Chiozza Money demonstrated that the disparity between rich and poor and the proportion of the population living in severe poverty changed little over the period . |
| 2 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 3 | I have looked carefully over a period of weeks at those applications , and have reached the view that they deserve to be granted . |
| 4 | What has changed , and changed radically over the period from the late 1960s to the early 1980s , has been the perception of that culture . |
| 5 | Twenty , 50 or 100 mg were infused intravenously over a period of 90 minutes . |
| 6 | As the above data suggest , residential services in Nottinghamshire not only expanded considerably over the period of the study but much of the new development took place in non-traditional residential services of the kind that CMHTs had been charged with promoting . |
| 7 | The stated rate of interest payable in respect of stepped interest bonds increases progressively over the period of issue . |
| 8 | I do not feel able to speculate as to whether or not it will recover sufficiently over the period in which we are dealing as to be again a and situation . |
| 9 | Academic basics can be drummed into a reasonably receptive dealer through the BIDS or Stock Exchange courses , but the practical market know-how that was most needed could be grasped only over a period . |
| 10 | The behaviour persists continuously over a period of time . |
| 11 | For instance , in a group of patients with rheumatoid and osteoarthritis who were treated with an elimination diet followed by a wheat-free diet , cervical reintegration and the green-lipped mussel preparation , Seatone , significant and often dramatic improvements were obtained in a fortnight of an order similar to , or better than , those obtained by either homoeopathy or Seatone alone over a period of three to six months . |
| 12 | If your dog fails to respond readily over a period of time , it will be worthwhile having its hearing checked by a veterinarian . |
| 13 | As couples live together over a period of years they will find more and more areas where decisions can be made without consultation because they will understand a lot of each other 's interests and desires . |
| 14 | This concept of individual timetables enables us to get away from the focus on the family or household as an undifferentiated unit , and to understand something of the complex patterns which evolve when individuals ' lives are woven together over the period of their lifetimes . |
| 15 | It is clear that insubstantial changes will not give rise to a new copyright ( or right to prevent unfair extraction ) but what is the position when a database has changed considerably from its original form but this has happened incrementally over a period of time ? |
| 16 | They emerged gradually over a period of half a century , culminating in his book Two New Sciences , which was first published in 1638 , almost a century after the publication of Copernicus 's major work . |
| 17 | It tends to happen gradually over a period of time . |
| 18 | The Lu-Fan operates quietly over a period of four minutes , switching off automatically , but it can be restarted immediately if required . |
| 19 | If goodwill is treated as an asset it should be amortised systematically over the period of its useful economic life . |
| 20 | Water quality in Scottish rivers improved significantly over the period 1985-90 , according to the latest Water Quality Survey . |