Example sentences of "cover a period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This book covers a period of some two hundred years . |
| 2 | This chapter examines two aspects of organizational planning : the corporate plan , which usually covers a period of three to live years ; and the annual budget , which looks at one year of that plan in much greater detail . |
| 3 | This is clearly demonstrated in the most recent essay , ‘ Women , Art , and Power ’ , which brings together French , British , Spanish and German paintings , prints and photographs which cover a period of over three centuries . |
| 4 | In international trade , short term finance is considered to cover a period of up to 6 months from the date of invoice or shipment and can therefore be considerably longer than the 30 , 60 or 90 days credit extended to buyers in the home market . |
| 5 | As those visits covered a period of six months , I may have got some of the dialogue a little out of the exact chronological order , but by and large that was the sequence of events . |
| 6 | The Emergency Programme 1980–85 : Most of the above Brandt proposals covered a period of twenty years . |
| 7 | Her first programme covered a period of fifty-four days , attracted one hundred and sixty-one students and involved the enrolment of thirty volunteers to act as auxiliary staff and course tutors . |
| 8 | The study appears fortunately timed since it has covered a period of relatively intense local violence between the rival supporters of Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 9 | The proposed SAS suggests that such supporting evidence will normally include forecasts and budgets , as well as statements of borrowing facilities , covering a period of at least one year from the date the directors approve the accounts . |
| 10 | An assembly of around 400 artefacts from the Chavin , Nazca , Moche , Huari and Chimó cultures covering a period of 3,000 years aims to demonstrate the variety and richness of Pre-Columbian art . |
| 11 | It can be seen that the central position of the MTFS is the ‘ monetarist view ’ of inflation that controlling the rate of growth of the money supply is a necessary and sufficient condition for bringing inflation under control over the medium term , covering a period of 3–4 years . |