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

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1 Other changes in structure developed more slowly , but although the pattern looked different over a period of a few years , analogues of the basic groups seem to have been present ever since the phenomenon of the contemporary football fan arose in the middle to late 1960s .
2 Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington .
3 No classification is entirely satisfactory and was not consistent over the period represented here but the category included : engineers , railway employees , carpenters , building trades and labourers , tailors and dressmakers , boot and shoe operatives , printing trades , postmen , policemen , blacksmiths , farm labourers , textile factory workers , gardeners and caretakers .
4 Later , the project was able to borrow a more advanced flux-gate magnetometer and the preliminary conclusions from Rodney Hale , an experienced electronics engineer , as a result of further work , are that there is a magnetic field within the circle which fluctuates relative to that outside over a period of hours .
5 But drinking too much over a period of months or years damages far more than the nervous system .
6 If you are unsuccessful over a period of time there 's always a chance you will part company . ’
7 As a treat for her large staff , who had been so assiduous over the period of moving in , Amy encouraged them to go .
8 The Test of Professional Competence , for building surveyors , first introduced in 1973 , has remained unchanged over a period during which many other changes both technological and sociological have taken place within the Division .
9 Again , for simplicity we shall assume that the price level is believed to remain unchanged over the period of the contract , so we can write :
10 The loans would be repayable over a period of 20 years at 3.5 per cent interest .
11 Rudolph Ackermann issued some fifty books with coloured plates , including the well-known Repository of Arts , Literature , Commerce , Manufacture , and Politics , which appeared monthly over a period of nearly twenty years .
12 The cause of deterioration is mainly due to the covering becoming thin and brittle because of weathering i.e. the action of heat and cold over a period of time .
13 This proved difficult and Josef Vissarionovich had to be blown up little by little over a period of two weeks .
14 The position of the Central Authority was strong : they were responsible for the Boards as a whole breaking-even over a period of years ; their approval was required for capital and current expenditure ; and they raised the capital and controlled the reserves and bank-balances of the Boards .
15 By using examples taken at random over a period of years the following list has been assembled :
16 Employment in construction fell by 7000 over the period and employment in transport and communications fell by the same amount .
17 We may explain the fact that the production units of a particular industry have grown larger over a period of time by appealing to the economies this yields , and in doing so claim that a cause ( increase in scale ) occurred because of its propensity to have a certain effect ( economies of scale ) .
18 The first is that the required rate of return is constant over the period under consideration .
19 The aim of the research is to study the way the government has attempted to combine the various objectives , which , despite much talk in the past , have never been seriously linked , as planning had more or less disappeared over the period 1970-81 .
20 It is , however , less effective over a period and tends to be more expensive .
21 The definitive work on sleep norms at different ages is by Robert Williams , Ismet Karacan and Carolyn Hursch from the Florida Sleep Laboratory who recorded the normal sleep patterns of over 200 subjects between three and seventy years of age and older over a period of fifteen years .
22 Scenting the strength of Coleby 's desire for the knife , he had beaten him up from two shillings to ten over a period of three days .
23 Resolution 706 dealt with a partial export resumption , up to a total value of $1.6 billion over a period of six months , to enable Baghdad to import medical supplies and foodstuffs .
24 You can work out that over a period of time you would have somewhere in the region of fifteen assignments during the year guaranteed .
25 salesman 's gon na do that over a period of time .
26 Erm , that over a period of about ten years , began to wane and by and large now I think feature analysis per se has been abandoned as a as a model for understanding human perception .
27 The appearance of the new form was an abrupt event and the product was quite stable over a period of years .
28 Student registrations on the course by mode show a small increase in both sandwich and part-time modes which , interestingly , has been matched by a corresponding decrease in such registrations elsewhere in the Polytechnic so that institutional figures are roughly stable over the period from 1982–87 .
29 Many players , as it happened , were coming near to the age of retirement , so it was possible over a period of six or seven years to make the orchestra young again .
30 Mr Elliot Bernerd , head of Chesfield commented , ‘ We are one of a group of shareholders and have never agreed to make capital available over a period of years .
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