Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] over [art] period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Bargaining is often carried out over a period of days , so it 's fortunate that a four- night B&B break at a three-star hotel near the market , is £219 in February and March .
2 The refurbishment scheme ‘ A Good Place to Live ’ will be carried out over a period of five years .
3 In the past , samples of children 's language have been collected using a diary approach where examples of children 's utterances , together with a description of the surrounding context , were simply written down over a period of weeks or months ( Miller 1981a ) .
4 In other cases , a partner 's contribution may be agreed to be collected in over a period of years out of his profit share .
5 Another proof is taken and so the print is built up over a period of time .
6 Strong and sometimes quite intense relationships with individuals are built up over a period of even a few weeks .
7 Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes .
8 In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example .
9 Any new planting was designed to be phased in over a period of years , planting schemes having to take account of the need to create a distinctive landscape for the immediate future as well as for the long term .
10 To test this particular application of Procedure Audit , a monitoring process was established in a section of thirty persons , and the administrative assistant briefed to record the number of queries referred back over a period of two months .
11 This will be cut back over a period of time .
12 You 've got ta put an offer in and pay it so much a month have n't you or something and , and , and get it paid off over a period of time ?
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