Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] a period " in BNC.

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31 The masculine energy is made available , and over a period of time the woman can crystallize that energy into a bond that will hold fast .
32 The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving .
33 A programme of restoration back to full working order followed and over a period of 18 months , it was stripped , restored and rebuilt to its present immaculate condition .
34 In both cases you have to find a deposit , and over a period of time pay off what is , in effect , a loan .
35 The place was besieged , and over a period of months , including a winter , the English grip tightened .
36 Also studied were the consistency of performance of individuals within and between topics , between mode of assessment and over a period of time .
37 The intention here was to allow the interviewer to simulate a conversation and over a period move towards a more symmetrical interactive relationship so that this interviewing style came to resemble participant observation .
38 They were already used to using signs , and over a period the handlers picked them up . ’
39 In Woodrow , it was held that affray is a continuing offence , so that where an indictment charged the defendants with a single offence and particularised several incidents that had occurred at different places and over a period of several hours , the indictment was not bad for duplicity .
40 This stage is followed by a search for means to implement the desired change and over a period of time a cycle of problems are handled by this method .
41 Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective .
42 But after a period of warming up , the computer would not reboot in either soft ( Ctrl/Alt/Del ) or hard ( ‘ big red switch ’ ) mode .
43 Citizenship presumably had certain advantages which made it worth a man 's while taking it up , but in a period of increasing civic oligarchy one may wonder how greatly these outweighed the disadvantages .
44 But over a period of time , two things disturb this equilibrium : evaporation and infiltration .
45 The third type requires such intervention but over a period of years , usually nearly into adolescence , and often there is never complete resolution .
46 I want a powder , a potion , one which will not kill immediately but over a period of months , undetected by her or any physician . ’
47 But over a period of time , erm , they are not directly equivalent , but very nearly so .
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