Example sentences of "[n mass] over [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission approved on Dec. 17 , 1989 , for the third framework programme , its key technology research and development initiative , a budget of 5,700 million ECU over a five-year period of which one-third was to be for research into information technology . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer . |
| 4 | The only way that we could definitely ascertain the extent of the increase in recorded crime which is due to changes in reporting and/or recording practices would be if there were available victimization data over a long period . |
| 5 | When tested initially for UK data over an 80-year period ( 1893–1970 ) all the explanatory variables are statistically significant and have the expected ( positive or negative ) signs and the model is stable over time , i.e. the same factors explain union growth in various sub-periods . |
| 6 | For the regional banks the ratio increased from 64% to 68% over the same period . |
| 7 | He says on a 500-acre farm the cost of an innocent error in completing the complicated forms might be a loss of more than £100,000 over a two-year period and assured bankruptcy for the farmer concerned . |
| 8 | It is paid free of tax up to a maximum of £8000 over the full period of the allowance ( see Appendix 1 ) . |
| 9 | Our overall operating profit has increased by some seventy percent over the same period last year . |
| 10 | Earnings per share are up er , more than forty percent over the same period last year and when the E P S is adjusted to take account of the non-operating items , the figure has increased by nearly ninety percent . |
| 11 | Cider is bucking the national trend … beer sales fell by ten percent over the same period . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The judge 's decision was handed down on the same day that Exxon announced that first-quarter profits for 1991 had leapt 75% over the same period last year , to $2.24 billion . |
| 14 | In a prospective study of general practice prescribing involving more than 40 000 people over a 2-year period , Skegg et al. ( 1983 ) found that only three in a thousand of those who had received psychotropics went on to take an overdose of the drugs within the following 12 months . |
| 15 | An important aspect would be a study of the progress of a sample of young people over a long period . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It seems that , although some substantial and long-standing export industries declined , others expanded their export sales over the post-war period ( although the rise slowed down in the early 1980s ) . |
| 19 | When the first giraffes began to stretch their necks to reach the leaves of trees , they were choosing a new habit that would guide the future development of their species over a vast period of time . |
| 20 | The cost of thefts from schools had risen from £60,000 to about £70,000 over the same period , representing a drop in real terms because of inflation . |
| 21 | Unix licence revenues increased 43% over the third quarter of fiscal 1992 , with Desktop licence sales growing 35% over the prior period , and the two together comprised 75% of total licence revenues for the quarter , compared with 69% of total licence revenues a year ago . |
| 22 | Unix licence revenues increased 43% over the third quarter of fiscal 1992 , with Desktop licence sales growing 35% over the prior period , and the two together comprised 75% of total licence revenues for the quarter , compared with 69% of total licence revenues a year ago . |
| 23 | A source within Hewlett-Packard UK claimed that its first quarter 700 Series workstation figures showed revenues up 120% over the same period last year . |