Example sentences of "over a [adj] period [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite my closeness over a long period to Harold Wilson , I was certainly not close to his publicised cronies . |
| 2 | The tax will be phased in over a three-year period from July 1994 . |
| 3 | Failure to extend the agreement would have meant selling the buffer stock over a 4@1/2-year period from October , with potentially damaging consequences for prices , which were already at their lowest point for many years after five seasons of glut . |
| 4 | The duty , which was to have been phased out over a nine-month period to March 1991 , was dismissed as ineffective because shoppers would be able to circumvent it by buying in the West after July 1 . |
| 5 | But for patients in high EE homes , the continued use of these drugs reduced the relapse rate over a nine-month period among Brown and his colleagues ' sample by one third ( 66 per cent to 46 per cent ) , and in Vaughn and Leff 's sample , by about one half . |
| 6 | The counterfeit cheques , for sums between £20 and £60 , were made out over a five-month period from March last year . |