Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] over a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 31 | The only people who are likely to experience extended periods of spontaneous regression are those who have been practising deep meditation over a prolonged period of time and have reached a high degree of competence in this field . |
| 32 | This can have a rather unsettling effect over a long period — the family man can not promise to take his children to the seaside or his wife out to dinner more than a week ahead without the chance that he might be in India , California or Scotland at the time he promised . |
| 33 | For example , the ceiling for relief could be reduced from £30,000 to zero in ten equal steps over a ten-year period of time . |
| 34 | Light : Needs very good light over a longer period than is used for other water plants Water temperature : 68°–78°F . |
| 35 | Recall from Chapter 19 that this is a long-run measure of income which can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the stock of human and non-human wealth over a long period of time . |
| 36 | Poor timekeeping over a long period usually amounts to misconduct . |
| 37 | Both sides would further cut stocks to " a very small fraction " of current arsenals over an eight-year period once a worldwide ban ( currently under negotiation at the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva — see p. 37224 ) on the development , production , use and possession of chemical weapons had entered into force . |
| 38 | It reached its present form over a long period of time during which there have been numerous law changes — not all of which have achieved their desired result , as Ian Kirkpatrick , Rutherford 's South African counterpart , was the first to point out . |
| 39 | Batteries last longer if they are charged and discharged in deep cycles over a long period . |
| 40 | We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time . |
| 41 | Fred has been encouraging pilferage over a long period . |
| 42 | The safe level over a two-hour period is 150 . |
| 43 | The potential for titillation regarding a freed rapist emerged in another case which had considerable coverage over a three-day period . |
| 44 | There was considerable vaginal dilation ; in my view , only consistent with full penetration over a long period . |
| 45 | The majority of the work shown was very recent , but several of the pieces date back as much as 10 years revealing her fascination with the themes from classical mythology over a long period . |
| 46 | At a summit meeting in June US President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev formally confirmed that a START treaty , which they expected to be completed by the end of 1990 , would be based on a 30 per cent overall cut in long-range nuclear missiles over a seven-year period . |
| 47 | From the number density of craters on these regions it is thus possible to establish the lunar cratering rate over a considerable period of time as shown in Figure 6.9 . |
| 48 | Fears of recession which heightened the perception of silver as an industrial metal and heavy over-supply over an extended period , caused prices to plummet to below $4.00 a troy ounce in mid-December for the first time in fifteen years . |
| 49 | Alison is an artist who has made an important contribution over a long period |
| 50 | Damien , the wild card , has had a very visible year whilst Alison is an artist who has made an important contribution over a long period . |
| 51 | They mainly worked on the final phase of a mapping and mineral exploration programme on the island of Santa Isabel , in which four BGS geologists have worked at various times over a six-year period . |
| 52 | the nature of the caring relationship is likely to be based on love and mutual support over a long period of time . |
| 53 | Talks on the possible sale of Iraqi oil worth US$1,600 million for humanitarian purposes over a six-month period [ see pp. 38406 ; 38452 ; 38548 ] were held in Vienna between Iraqi and UN officials on Jan. 8-10 . |
| 54 | He has been a doughty fighter over a long period in favour of the use of democracy and dialogue and in condemnation of the use of violence . |
| 55 | But they were not in Great Britain in 1984 , and adjacent areas with similar relatively isolated mining communities ( notably Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire ) differed very substantially not only in their support for the strike call but also in their level of industrial militancy over a substantial period of time . |
| 56 | Thorsen , the 51-year-old managing director of Scansiris , is charged with fraudulently preparing falsely inflated invoices over a ten-year period up to 1991 . |
| 57 | We recognise that to add value through successful exploration over a sustained period will require a continuing supply of quality new venture opportunities . |
| 58 | However , a syndrome of this severity is not commonly reported in foals under natural conditions , probably because larval intake is continuous during grazing ; it has been show experimentally that foals may tolerate large numbers of larvae administered in small doses over a long period . |
| 59 | Pre-emptive local anaesthetic field block for inguinal herniorrhaphy resulted in reduced pain scores and a delay in requests for analgesia during the six hours studied by Ejlersen et al , but similar work detected no pre-emptive effect over a longer period . |
| 60 | In South-west England tin , copper and other metals have been mined for at least 2000 years from deposits related to Variscan granites ; in the Pennine range of central and northern England over a similar period , lead , and lately fluorite and baryte , have been extracted from vein and replacement deposits in Carboniferous sediments ; in Central Wales , the Isle of Man and the Southern Uplands of Scotland lead and zinc have been mined from vein deposits in Lower Palaeozoic greywackes and in the Lake District copper , lead and zinc have been recovered from a variety of deposits in Lower Palaeozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks underlain by Caledonian granites . |