Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] over a period " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 2 | The entire collection will be shown in chronological order over a period of five years and each display will involve the restoration of the objects involved and their addition to a technical catalogue covering every object . |
| 3 | At the Elysee , a spokesman said there could be ‘ modulations ’ in presidential commitments over a period of years , and indicated that the president could take Fabius 's advice in the area of research spending . |
| 4 | In the case of bulk packages from which the product is likely to be removed in successive quantities over a period of time , separate tests should be carried out to assess the effect of storage in partly filled containers . |
| 5 | Several of both kinds are needed , depending on the student , and are presented either simultaneously or in alternate sequence over a period of time . |
| 6 | Like many of the other city churches it was destroyed by fire in the eleventh-century , being totally rebuilt ( on the same foundations ) in Romanesque style over a period of two hundred years . |