Example sentences of "[noun sg] over a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.

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31 Instead that sense has to be nurtured by more direct experience over a long period of time .
32 Declining per capita income over a prolonged period of time usually results in a change of government , sometimes after a revolution or a military coup .
33 The results they obtained suggested a close relationship between changes in the United States ' money supply and changes in money national income over a long period of time .
34 So we look to organisations who will lend the money to us , on condition that we undertake to repay the loan from our income over a specified period of time .
35 So we look to organisations who will lend the money to us , on condition that we undertake to repay the loan from our income over a specified period of time .
36 However , at Cosmeston the archaeologist has the opportunity to excavate a large portion of the settlement over a long period of time and to use the results to shed light on sites where the excavators have not been so fortunate .
37 The only people who are likely to experience extended periods of spontaneous regression are those who have been practising deep meditation over a prolonged period of time and have reached a high degree of competence in this field .
38 The length of time it has been operation will determine how much money she gets back , but it is unlikely to have made much of a profit , because endowments are designed to make money over a long period of time .
39 It means you have to keep club staff there for a lot longer , till about 6.30 , and that people spend their money over a longer period of time .
40 After the initial four weeks , patients treated with prednisolone were withdrawn from this drug over a further period of 6.5 ( 2.4 ) weeks .
41 The other major case , which later separated into two , involved the murders of two boys aged 14 and 6 , which obtained fairly intensive coverage over a five-day period in the popular dailies .
42 the nature of the caring relationship is likely to be based on love and mutual support over a long period of time .
43 He has been a doughty fighter over a long period in favour of the use of democracy and dialogue and in condemnation of the use of violence .
44 He went on ‘ improving ’ this poem over a long period of years so that the text usually printed shows many alterations from the original .
45 But they were not in Great Britain in 1984 , and adjacent areas with similar relatively isolated mining communities ( notably Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire ) differed very substantially not only in their support for the strike call but also in their level of industrial militancy over a substantial period of time .
46 ( 1989 ) examined the impact of smoking status on mortality over a 17-year period for 60- to 94-year-olds included in the Alameda County study in the United States .
47 It reached its present form over a long period of time during which there have been numerous law changes — not all of which have achieved their desired result , as Ian Kirkpatrick , Rutherford 's South African counterpart , was the first to point out .
48 I think the question remains or that my doubts remain that there will be a level of there will that one can assume a level of commitments which would be it would be sensible to try and draw back from or phase over a longer period of time .
49 As to who would provide the care she said that where there is care over a long period of time , families often stop employing carers through an agency .
50 We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time .
51 To begin with , literacy in general was not , of course , independently invented in Greece , as Goody and Watt recognise : the form of literacy particular to Greece developed from the Semitic writing system over a long period of time .
52 It arises from a combination of factors e.g. dampness and absence of adequate ventilation over a significant period of time .
53 The majority of other types of skin cancer are the result of continued exposure to sunlight over a long period of time .
54 It also prevents one from churning out the same stuff of conversation over a long period to different people ( to use words at people ) which is using those people as hard reflective surfaces and not , as I feel properly , soft digestive reflective surfaces .
55 This chapter considers the pairwise relationships between three measures of trading activity over a short period of time , such as one day , for a particular futures contract .
56 The team at Oxford 's cancer fund are now planning longer term research with other organisations world-wide to assess the effects of tamoxifen over a longer period of time to see if it can continue saving lives .
57 themselves admit that ‘ a definitive answer to the question of job techniques and job autonomy could be provided only by systematic and direct observation over a prolonged period of time ’ .
58 The analogy with Munros and their associated Tops is obvious , and to collect either is likely to involve above average commitment and dedication over a sustained period of years , and require a broad spectrum of mountaineering skills .
59 At any particular moment the books might not appear to balance ( for example electrical energy input could be stored to be released as heat later , or energy taken up while forcing the deuterium into the palladium may be returned later U the deuterium leaks out and recombines in the atmosphere ) , so the relevant question was whether there was a net excess output of energy over a long period of time .
60 Complex carbohydrates on the other hand , e.g. pasta , release energy over a longer period of time .
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