Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] over [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Records may have to be kept for reference over a long period of time and therefore they must be adequately protected . |
| 2 | During his reign he added vast territories to the Frankish kingdom that he had inherited ; Lombardy ( the traditional enemy of both Franks and papacy ) , parts of Spain , all of Saxony over a prolonged period of campaigning , and Slavonic regions of the Drave and Elbe . |
| 3 | Similarly , we can look at the iconography of coins over a shorter period . |
| 4 | Equally , it is not unknown for a partner gradually to lose interest in mundane administrative matters : often enough the problems that this can cause are exacerbated by his co-partners allowing him to escape his share of responsibility over a long period . |
| 5 | First , the payment of this sum of money over a short period would have a considerable inflationary effect . |
| 6 | Firms with a sustained high level of exports over a longer period may provide further figures for consideration as a consistent exporter . |
| 7 | In 1923 the USA and Britain reached an agreement for repayment of debts over a 62-year period at 3.3% interest . |
| 8 | It may also be possible to argue that where the party has failed to respond to a notice of assignment from the purchaser , such lack of action over a long period is an implied consent where that party has dealt with the purchaser after completion . |
| 9 | The examination of all the images produced during a particular period or of a selection of images over a longer period will often provide a good idea of how the relevant state or regime wished to represent itself . |
| 10 | Librarians point out that for their part they receive fewer volumes for their money , since the prices of books over the same period have risen distinctly faster than retail prices as a whole . |
| 11 | The giant ground sloths and armadillos of the past were clearly South American in character , showing that this continent had been populated by unique families of animals over a vast period of time . |
| 12 | For example , take a company which displays a doubling of turnover over a five-year period using a column graph ( vertical bar chart ) . |
| 13 | The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer . |
| 14 | A stability test involves the accumulation of a substantial amount of data over a prolonged period of time and may require the production of reports at several stages of the test . |
| 15 | Now er I have to warn him there are that sort of conduct has been indulged in to the detriment of the people of Highfields over a significant period by the Labour party . |
| 16 | It will be difficult or impossible to establish a course of dealing on the basis of a small number of transactions over a long period . |
| 17 | Average rates of return over the whole period were : ICI — HC 15% , CPP 1 ½%; GEC — HC 19% , CPP 10 ½%.; e |
| 18 | The father , Mr P , also an English incomer to Orkney , had carried out various forms of abuse over a long period of time . |
| 19 | Sales representative organized the promotion and personally demonstrated the production of chapattis to thousands of visitors over a five-day period . |
| 20 | Such compromises and concessions , necessary for maintaining consensual politics , exacerbated the economic pressures ; for example , the growth of social provision and the socialization of the losses of large sectors of private capital through nationalization ( see chapter 3 ) was reflected in a rapid rise in public expenditure from 25.0 per cent of GDP in 1975 to 35.4 per cent in 1982 ( Donges 1984 : 111 ) ; the public sector deficit rose from zero to 5.9 per cent of GDP over the same period . |
| 21 | The Beveridge Report advocated the payment of old-age pensions on an actuarial basis , which would have meant the building up of contributions over a twenty-year period . |
| 22 | On the other hand , if it is impossible to find any evidence of the congruence between government growth and the requirements of capitalism over a certain period . |
| 23 | It is paid free of tax up to a maximum of £8000 over the full period of the allowance ( see Appendix 1 ) . |
| 24 | While experience may show that certain tasks were not as good discriminators as others there is likely to be an abundance of evidence over the three-year period for teachers to use . |
| 25 | Investing instead in a similarly-sized firm that was already traded in the market generated , on average , a profit of 30% over the same period . |
| 26 | Although DLOs have survived , Stoker ( 1988 , p. 186 ) notes that there was a 22.5 per cent fall in numbers employed between 1980 and 1985 and a 17.7 per cent fall in value of output over the same period . |
| 27 | For example , there may be evidence for a sequence of buildings being constructed and going out of use over a long period of time . |
| 28 | Escobar , accused of responsibility for the murder of hundreds of people over a 10-year period , including a Justice Minister , an Attorney General , at least one presidential candidate [ see p. 36844 ] and 107 passengers aboard a domestic flight [ see p. 37041 ] , was not expected to stand trial for at least a year . |
| 29 | As compared with the more usual situation in which we only know the activity of people over a short period , such data raise some challenging statistical and econometric problems . |
| 30 | Gas supply agreements often provide for the supply of gas over a long period , sometimes for a decade or more . |