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

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1 During his reign he added vast territories to the Frankish kingdom that he had inherited ; Lombardy ( the traditional enemy of both Franks and papacy ) , parts of Spain , all of Saxony over a prolonged period of campaigning , and Slavonic regions of the Drave and Elbe .
2 Similarly , we can look at the iconography of coins over a shorter period .
3 Equally , it is not unknown for a partner gradually to lose interest in mundane administrative matters : often enough the problems that this can cause are exacerbated by his co-partners allowing him to escape his share of responsibility over a long period .
4 First , the payment of this sum of money over a short period would have a considerable inflationary effect .
5 Firms with a sustained high level of exports over a longer period may provide further figures for consideration as a consistent exporter .
6 In 1923 the USA and Britain reached an agreement for repayment of debts over a 62-year period at 3.3% interest .
7 It may also be possible to argue that where the party has failed to respond to a notice of assignment from the purchaser , such lack of action over a long period is an implied consent where that party has dealt with the purchaser after completion .
8 The examination of all the images produced during a particular period or of a selection of images over a longer period will often provide a good idea of how the relevant state or regime wished to represent itself .
9 The giant ground sloths and armadillos of the past were clearly South American in character , showing that this continent had been populated by unique families of animals over a vast period of time .
10 For example , take a company which displays a doubling of turnover over a five-year period using a column graph ( vertical bar chart ) .
11 The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer .
12 A stability test involves the accumulation of a substantial amount of data over a prolonged period of time and may require the production of reports at several stages of the test .
13 Now er I have to warn him there are that sort of conduct has been indulged in to the detriment of the people of Highfields over a significant period by the Labour party .
14 It will be difficult or impossible to establish a course of dealing on the basis of a small number of transactions over a long period .
15 The father , Mr P , also an English incomer to Orkney , had carried out various forms of abuse over a long period of time .
16 Sales representative organized the promotion and personally demonstrated the production of chapattis to thousands of visitors over a five-day period .
17 The Beveridge Report advocated the payment of old-age pensions on an actuarial basis , which would have meant the building up of contributions over a twenty-year period .
18 On the other hand , if it is impossible to find any evidence of the congruence between government growth and the requirements of capitalism over a certain period .
19 For example , there may be evidence for a sequence of buildings being constructed and going out of use over a long period of time .
20 Escobar , accused of responsibility for the murder of hundreds of people over a 10-year period , including a Justice Minister , an Attorney General , at least one presidential candidate [ see p. 36844 ] and 107 passengers aboard a domestic flight [ see p. 37041 ] , was not expected to stand trial for at least a year .
21 As compared with the more usual situation in which we only know the activity of people over a short period , such data raise some challenging statistical and econometric problems .
22 Gas supply agreements often provide for the supply of gas over a long period , sometimes for a decade or more .
23 Rumen boluses designed for the slow release of anthelmintics over a prolonged period are under development for sheep and seem an ideal way of minimising worm egg output .
24 Any parent who has had an insomniac or hyperactive child will know the situation in which interruption of sleep over a long period frays tempers and seeks some other scapegoat than the child ; husband and wife may end in screaming at each other across the bedroom .
25 The profile would usually be the number of qualified and unqualified staff required for each span of duty over a 24-hour period .
26 The 30-nation talks in Geneva failed to bridge the gap between countries such as Germany and the Nordic states , which are seeking a 79 per cent cut in emissions by the end of the decade , and those like the UK and France which want a lower level of cuts over a longer period .
27 Out of form over a long period , Lyle did not feel that he would be able to stand the pressure .
28 It was common practice for marriage registers to record the places of abode of the newly-weds , and what Kendall did was to use this information to construct a crude measure of dissimilarity between villages based on frequency of intermarriage over a long period .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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