Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] period [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each night over the five-day period from Aug. 22 , several hundred neo-Nazis and skinheads attacked the reception centre . |
| 2 | While experience may show that certain tasks were not as good discriminators as others there is likely to be an abundance of evidence over the three-year period for teachers to use . |
| 3 | Over the first period of study ( 1978–83 ) , hospital mortality was 9% , while over the second period ( 1984–8 ) it had fallen to 4% ( Fisher 's exact test : p=0.4 ) . |
| 4 | As its name implies , this is based on your average earnings over the total period of time that you are participating in the scheme . |
| 5 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 6 | Export figures for January-October 1990 were US$1,216 million , with import figures over the same period at $1,713 million , giving a trade deficit of $497 million . |
| 7 | The company reported a 10pc increase in profits over the same period with figures up from £253m to £278m . |
| 8 | For the same reason solidification of an appreciable fraction of the mantle can also be ruled out over the same period of history . |
| 9 | Over the same period of time the number of defendants committed for trial at the Crown Court who were remanded in custody also increased from around 13,000 to 21,000 ( having been as high as 24,000 in 1997 ) . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Despite my closeness over a long period to Harold Wilson , I was certainly not close to his publicised cronies . |
| 14 | What each of us does over a long period of trial and error is to acquire a set of tools with which we are comfortable and which we can apply in different ways to the myriad problems which we need to solve . |
| 15 | The best businesses over a long period of time have been the ones with a single thrust . |
| 16 | Thus , over a long period of time , stone , glass and metals acquire a distinctive patina which the faker must try and imitate . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time . |
| 19 | However , over a long period of time and association , horses and ponies can alter their thought patterns and learn to think more like each other , and to become more empathic . |
| 20 | But cases of die links between different places or over a long period of time are unusual . |
| 21 | There are few other industries in which , over a long period of time , revenues have covered less than half of costs . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer . |
| 24 | What was less obvious was the effect on the system as a whole , which had evolved over a long period of time influenced by a variety of political and economical pressures , and not necessarily in a methodical manner . |
| 25 | In fact the opposite seems to have occurred because Grevy 's zebra is in other ways a very different animal from the common zebra and it appears that in their stripes the two species have converged rather than diverged , over a long period of time . |
| 26 | If we find that magnets attached to cats will upset their ability to find their way home , then we are beginning , very dimly , to understand the amazing homing abilities that the animals have evolved over a long period of time . |
| 27 | The explanation is that , given a totally unvarying diet over a long period of time , especially if it is from kittenhood right through into adult life , a cat 's ‘ food variety mechanism ’ gets worn down and is finally switched off altogether . |
| 28 | The father , Mr P , also an English incomer to Orkney , had carried out various forms of abuse over a long period of time . |
| 29 | Unlike the 1991 Rugby World Cup , which took place over a whole month , not to mention the three months build-up , thereby allowing the sponsors to develop their marketing strategy over a long period of time , the World Sevens tournament is a three-day event , with the commercial potential of a ‘ Market blink ’ , as he puts it . |
| 30 | One of the tasks of a sponsor of such an event is to maximise on its appeal over a long period of time . |