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 | 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 . |
| 40 | the nature of the caring relationship is likely to be based on love and mutual support over a long period of time . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | He went on ‘ improving ’ this poem over a long period of years so that the text usually printed shows many alterations from the original . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | ( 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time . |
| 48 | Miller observed that penal institutions ‘ can not sustain their decency over an extended period of time . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | It arises from a combination of factors e.g. dampness and absence of adequate ventilation over a significant period of time . |
| 51 | The majority of other types of skin cancer are the result of continued exposure to sunlight over a long period of time . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 ’ . |
| 55 | Other freeholders , however , were less career-motivated , and often showed considerable loyalty to a particular political interest over an extended period of time , and as a generalisation it might be suggested that they were less likely to jump from one interest to another than were the lawyers with judicial preferment in mind . |
| 56 | These developments have led to the encroachment of examinations into Thursday and Friday of week 10 but , nevertheless , over 7,600 examination places were administered by the examinations office over an eight-day period in July 1988 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Er and erm it 's difficult for people to maintain er not only as I say , but in their lifestyle over a particular period of time , so you could be more likely to get at the truth by this method , than by sending out questionnaires . |
| 60 | I could hardly blame him here — at least his feelings ; but even if , with an earlier and exact diagnosis he could have been spared a great deal of pain over a considerable period of time , I realize that nothing could have saved him . |