Example sentences of "the [noun sg] over [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Warnock had admitted stealing the money over a two-year period while she was the toy library 's treasurer . |
| 3 | Estimates of the amount of money saved by the taxpayer over the five-year period vary widely . |
| 4 | Barclays Bank is making the grant over a three-year period to encourage independent companies . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is because the EDSP is the average value of the index over a 20-minute period , and the prices used in computing the index are the midprices of the quotations , not the last traded prices . |
| 7 | If this analysis is accepted , then it is clear that the attempt over a long period of time to protect the position of those living in privately rented accommodation has failed and has , in fact , made the position worse . |
| 8 | He claimed that 85,000 people had used the range over a two-year period and that outdoor sport was acceptable on green belt land . |
| 9 | Other types of skin cancer are associated with continued exposure to the sun over a long period . |
| 10 | Wherever you train you will work in at least three , but usually four or five different areas of the law over the two-year period . |
| 11 | The timescale over the deglacial period has been calibrated recently using measured in corals and extended tree-ring chronologies . |
| 12 | One might infer from this that investment intensity is therefore also negatively correlated with increases in the value of the business over a five-year period . |
| 13 | This may be to have the customer test the product over a four-week period , or for him to order a quantity for immediate use . |
| 14 | In return , the EC undertook to phase out the pesticide over a five-year period . |
| 15 | From this altitude their instruments view a swath of the Earth 's surface that extends 1500 km to either side of their suborbital tracks , so that a picture of the globe over a 24-hour period is built up . |
| 16 | More important for the present discussion , however , was the spatial variability in both support for the strike over the full period and the rate of the drift back to work . |
| 17 | However , the question : ‘ Has the North-South divide widened under the Conservative government ? ’ is a difficult one to answer — a limited amount of data has been presented , but the evidence over the ten-year period studied is not conclusive . |
| 18 | In Britain these are in a state of flux although there has been much discussion about the role of the inspector over a long period of time . |
| 19 | The variation over the whole period is fairly large , but between consecutive measurements it is within the tolerance discussed in Chapter Section % Chapter 3 Section 5 . |
| 20 | As an initial hypothesis , this seems reasonable : given the amounts of money involved in the experiment , and the fact that their payment was the total over the eight periods of the experiment , this would seem to be a reasonable approximation . |
| 21 | The changes that occurred in the City 's international role over the 1960s and '70s are explained and discussed in J. Coakley and L. Harris , The City of Capital ( Oxford , Basil Blackwell ; 1983 ) ; the international role of the City over a longer period is discussed in depth in L. Harris , T. Evans , J. Coakley and M. Croasdale , New Directions in the Financial System ( London , Croom Helm ; 1988 ) . |
| 22 | The controversy over the pre-war period revolves around five central questions : the likelihood of renewed rebellion by the peasantry ; the dynamics of working-class protest ; the prospects for the consolidation of the Empire 's middle classes into a formidable social and political force ; the solidity of the tsarist forces of repression ; and the effect of Russia 's entry into the First World War upon socio-political conditions in the Empire . |
| 23 | The rise in Japanese interest rates , and narrowing of interest rate differentials vis-a-vis other major currencies did not stem the slide of the yen , which depreciated by about 15 per cent against the US dollar and by 22 per cent against the deutschmark over the same period . |
| 24 | The Environmental Protection Agency of the Chinese government has set up an inspection team which will tour the country over a three-year period to ensure that environmental laws are being properly enforced , and to heighten awareness of environmental issues . |
| 25 | When this was analysed by site , the proportion of moderately and poorly differentiated tumours significantly decreased ( p= 0.001 ) in the antrum from the earlier to the later series , whereas the same relatively poorly differentiated tumours increased significantly in the carida over the same periods . |
| 26 | Qly Ab Return ; quarterly abnormal return ( per cent ) , this represents the difference between what the share might have been expected to earn over the previous quarter given its beta value and the risk free rate of return , and the return of the market over the same period ( ; where the expected return is equal to ) . |