Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The number claiming SB has risen over the same period from three million to just under five million ( figures from CPAG ) . |
| 32 | In the south-east , it shot up over the same period from 4 to 9.7pc . |
| 33 | While male activity rates have fallen steadily from 58.1 per cent in 1970 to 55.6 per cent in 1986 , female activity rates have risen over the same period from 26.6 per cent to 32.5 per cent . |
| 34 | SmithKline Beecham announced a 16 per cent increase in pre-tax profits for Q3 in 1991 , over the same period in 1990 , to £252m . |
| 35 | In the first 20 days of December , car sales were 30% higher than over the same period in 1991 . |
| 36 | Sales revenues for scholastic Publications Ltd reached £8.96m for the first half of the company 's financial year ( June to November 1992 ) , representing an increase of 23.5% over the same period in 1991 . |
| 37 | The annualized inflation rate for the first nine months of 1989 was 5.1 per cent compared with 4 per cent over the same period in 1988 . |
| 38 | On May 25 the Taiwanese Board of Foreign Trade released figures which showed that trade between Taiwan and eastern Europe had amounted to US$194,100,000 during the first four months of 1991 an 82.4 per cent increase over the same period in 1990 . |
| 39 | Industrial output had shown a 13.4 per cent increase over the same period in 1990 , exports an 18.5 per cent increase , and imports a 15.9 per cent increase . |
| 40 | The crime rate was reported on July 6 , 1990 , to have risen by 11.9 per cent over the previous year , and on Oct. 25 , 1991 , to have risen by 10.9 per cent in the first nine months of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 41 | A Home Office statistical bulletin said nationally police recorded an 11pc increase in offences in the last quarter of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 42 | In particular this applied to women , and one indication of it is indeed the change over the post-war period in economic activity rates among women . |
| 43 | Having risen strongly over the post-war period until that year , growth stopped ; there have been major fluctuations since , but the total has never been so high again . |
| 44 | It should be noted that these projections do not reflect any benefits that may accrue to the Group following a transfer of ownership and have been prepared under the assumption that the Group 's current operating conditions will apply over the whole period under review ’ . |
| 45 | Also , Causton , Elias and Hadley showed that k/ ( d+1 ) is a weighted mean relative growth rate over the whole period of measurement and is the corresponding weighted mean absolute growth rate . |
| 46 | Significantly more cases of cryptosporidiosis occurred between April and June and less cases were seen between October and December ( Fig 2 ) over the whole period of the study ( χ 2 test , both p<0.005 ) . |
| 47 | Irrespective of wh what 's gone on over the whole period of the trial . |
| 48 | Seen over the whole period from 1960 to 1989 the human family has been becoming significantly healthier . |
| 49 | In table 9.8 are shown some examples of the changes in unit costs which were used in the GRE formulae over the short period from 1983/4 to 1986/7 . |
| 50 | Height and weight charts are vital in determining the seriousness of the problem and are the best method of assessing whether the food intake is adequate over a certain period of time . |
| 51 | The arrangement provided for the repayment of all the principal owed for 1989 and 1990 and half the interest payable for 1989 over a 10-year period with five years ' grace . |
| 52 | To my knowledge , no class can hold State power over a long period without at the same time exercising its hegemony over and in the State Ideological Apparatuses . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Despite my closeness over a long period to Harold Wilson , I was certainly not close to his publicised cronies . |
| 55 | Those few casual workers in the catering industry who do seem to work on a more or less continuous , almost full-time basis over a long period for a single organisation ( the plaintiffs in the oft-cited " O'Kelly case " ) , tend to possess skills which that organisation , and indeed other potential employers , value . |
| 56 | Conversely , some econometricians have argued that it is more cost effective to use a ‘ drip ’ system , advertising more or less continuously over a long period at a very low weight . |
| 57 | The best businesses over a long period of time have been the ones with a single thrust . |
| 58 | Thus , over a long period of time , stone , glass and metals acquire a distinctive patina which the faker must try and imitate . |
| 59 | Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate . |
| 60 | Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time . |