Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 31 | The CBI urges people not to take a short-term view , as the hon. Gentleman does in considering only a 12-month period . |
| 32 | Unlike groups in laboratory studies , the work group is not created and then disbanded permanently ; it often survives over a long period of time . |
| 33 | The church began in late Saxon times and developed over a long period , finally being made redundant in the 1960s , when part of it collapsed . |
| 34 | 3 Can you give us an approximate idea of sales you 'd be expecting over a three-year period ? |
| 35 | Using data collected over a 2-year period from plots under a variety of management techniques , ranging from maize cultivation to a range of pasture grasses , they report that soil erosion and nutrient losses were greatest from maize ( Zea mays ) and guinea grass ( Panicum maximum Jacq. ) plots . |
| 36 | A good game of tennis , badminton , hockey , netball , or football , for instance , all involve a great deal of running over a prolonged period of time . |
| 37 | Following the primary attack , there may be no further episodes , or the disease may recur over a long period , in some cases several years . |
| 38 | Ectothermic reptiles have a body temperature that tends to vary over a 24-hour period , and hence seem unable to support a large brain . |
| 39 | On June 22 , West Germany agreed to restructure over a 14-year period a debt of DM3,000 million due for payment by March 1991 . |
| 40 | This perspective is inadequate for an understanding of the colonial legal system because the post-independence practices evolved over a long period of time . |
| 41 | The rehabilitation process may take quite a long period of time and will involve giving the patient enough support to boost his confidence and promote independence . |
| 42 | Stock , for example , is issued for 25 years at the most , for the obvious reason that the market will charge a high premium for lending over a longer period than that . |
| 43 | Writing the play brought back a whole period of his early life : not merely the marriage to Vivien but the friendship with Emily Hale . |
| 44 | The Government has advised that women who are pregnant or may become pregnant should not eat liver , as very large doses of vitamin A taken over a long period may be associated with foetal abnormalities . |
| 45 | Unfortunately it may conceivably cause liver disease if taken over a long period , and this is to be tested by administering it to pigs . |
| 46 | In such studies records of a very large number of events are taken over a considerable period of time and memory for the events is subsequently tested . |
| 47 | Some 15 improved variants of Mig-21 emerged over a 25-year period , to impressive effect : the latest models possessing almost double the range and payload of the first . |
| 48 | Expressions for the amplitudes a n and b n of the harmonic components of any Fourier series are obtained by multiplying both sides of equation ( 11.1 ) by or and integrating over a complete period . |
| 49 | The use of the courts to end a railroad strike in 1922 ushered in a lean period for the unions . |
| 50 | The composition of these works stretched over a considerable period of time . |
| 51 | The older men in particular portray inspection as an art whose techniques , absorbed over a long period , become almost intuitive . |
| 52 | The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority 's excess rent allowance operates over a nine-year period . |
| 53 | The idea would be to compile over a short period a national register of wealth holdings . |
| 54 | One suggestion has been that the energy output of the Sun itself fluctuates over a long period . |
| 55 | It is no longer adequate just to produce a plan of a church : all walls and elevations need to be examined closely , since most churches are built , developed and extended over a long period . |
| 56 | This was a process which extended over a long period , and in the seventeenth century the extent of their privileges in this respect was still far from clear . |
| 57 | Reports by the United Nations and Amnesty International detailed human rights abuses under the regime , one citing 14,000 cases of execution or torture over a six-year period . |
| 58 | This task of considering key moments can be a very valuable way of recapping from one session to the next when the drama extends over a long period , as it usually does once it becomes part of a project or topic work . |
| 59 | Where production extends over a long period as in construction industries and shipbuilding , measurement of work in progress has to be achieved by other means . |
| 60 | If it continues over a long period it could even lead to stunted growth . |