Example sentences of "over [art] period " in BNC.
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| 61 | Over the period , ICI 's reported HC sales rose from less than £2bn to nearly £13bn ; and GEC 's HC sales ( excluding related companies ) rose from £1bn to nearly £6bn . |
| 62 | Note that GEC actually reduced its share capital over the period . |
| 63 | Advertised jobs fell by 30% over the period August 1991/92 compared with August 1990/91 . |
| 64 | One of the other stock-market listed football clubs , Tottenham Hotspur , capitalises the cost of its players ' registrations and , after allowing for estimated residual values , amortises them over the period of the respective players ' contracts . |
| 65 | In the standard account of the party 's growth into a modern political organisation over the period 1910–24 , McKibbin ( 1974 ) concludes that the war was not of first importance to its ultimate rise to power : |
| 66 | The figures below show how credit use has changed over the period covered by these three surveys . |
| 67 | Drink sales averaged £180,000 per unit , showing an increase of approximately 10 per cent over the period . |
| 68 | An examination of Figure 6.1 reveals that , whilst each of the groups considered has gained over the period 1979 — 89 ( due to the tax and benefit changes discussed above ) , the greatest gain was made by the richest tenth of the population . |
| 69 | The only problem was that we had envisaged a tumbledown affair that we would rebuild over the period of time while we were still living and working in London . |
| 70 | Over the period of the experiment there was a 50 percent chance that the bottle would be ruptured , so killing the cat . |
| 71 | However , over the period of the relocation programme , house prices rose considerably . |
| 72 | Some organisations reduce the level of the foreign service premium over the period that the employee spends abroad on the basis that he becomes increasingly accustomed to the life style as time progresses . |
| 73 | Roy Hollingworth , a discus thrower from Trinidad , and Clive Long from Guyana gained international athletics honours in the 1960s , though it was a Jamaican , Marilyn Fay Neufville , who , over the period , rose to prominence in athletics , eventually gaining the Commonwealth Games gold medal and , simultaneously , the world 's 400 metre record ( 51 seconds ) in Edinburgh in 1970 when she was 18 years old . |
| 74 | A notable early study of union growth which employed data relating to changes in general business conditions for France , Germany , England and the USA over the period from the 1890s to the 1930s was that of Davis ( 1941 ) . |
| 75 | An empirical investigation of the relationship between bargaining structure and strike activity has been carried out by Hibbs ( 1976 ) for 15 advanced industrial economies over the period 1950–69 . |
| 76 | Fishkeepers should always bear in mind that the majority of their fish have over the period of evolution become adapted to live in a certain environment — sea , river , swamp , lake , etc … each with its own specific limits of water chemistry and quality . |
| 77 | If an example is needed to make this clearer one can be found in the special place occupied by the Second World War in public consciousness in Britain and , more particularly , in Margaret Thatcher 's increasingly deliberate manipulation of Churchillian sketches over the period of the Falklands crisis . |
| 78 | The favoured species , if that is the right adjective , tended to be locusts , pigs , and cattle , but Edward P. Evans , in his marvellous book , The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals , published in 1906 , lists numerous others , including eels , weevils , dolphins , and turtle-doves , that were prosecuted over the period AD 824–1906 . |
| 79 | The governors had placed great trust in him over the period of ten years ‘ during one of which it pleased its liberal Grand Visitor to take me with him to Ireland ’ . |
| 80 | British industry 's rates of growth were markedly below those of its European counterparts and as a result an absolute advantage was transformed into an absolute disadvantage over the period . |
| 81 | In sum , the general impression to be gained from the literature is that industrial profits were slimmed over the period , but by nothing like as much as bald balance sheet figures suggest , and that an easing in the cost of finance over the 1960s was followed by a hardening in the early 1970s . |
| 82 | Its share of total industrial activity has varied over the period but the figures for the late 1960s are representative . |
| 83 | For example , over the period rail transport lost heavily to road transport ( though assessment is complicated by problems of whether road transport paid the full costs of its operation ) and more recently coal has lost to alternative forms of energy supply . |
| 84 | It is worth noting that whereas profit shares in manufacturing fell over the period , in the financial sector they were maintained at a high and even rising level [ Brown and Sheriff , 1978 ] . |
| 85 | From the Radcliffe Report [ 1959 ] onwards , moreover , figures have been produced to show the value of their contribution ; and over the period invisible exports from the financial sector have been cast in the role of saviour of the balance of payments . |
| 86 | It has already been noted that , over the period , taxes on capital gains were either non-existent or very favourable as against taxes on profits and dividends [ Kay and King , 1978 ] . |
| 87 | Over the period , spokesmen for industry identified government and the major educational institutions as the villains ; and the business and professional careers of many leading politicians lend credence by example to such charges . |
| 88 | But , as has been shown , although their proportionate contribution increased over the period it is not something which should be interpreted in wholly optimistic terms . |
| 89 | In short , tariffs by themselves would have been unlikely to have provided little more than a temporary palliative to ailing industries over the period under review . |
| 90 | Yet any comparison of British and foreign economic performance over the period since 1945 is soon brought up against the effects of different institutional forms . |