Example sentences of "[adv] over [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some people ketamine has the potential for compulsive , repeated use ; cases of self administered injections several times daily over prolonged periods have been reported . |
| 2 | Thus , we have : For two main reasons , economists are usually quite happy to work with ‘ gross ’ rather than ‘ net ’ figures : first , depreciation tends to change only slowly over time so that the ‘ gross ’ and ‘ net ’ figures move closely together over any period of a few years ; and secondly , depreciation figures are notoriously difficult to estimate with any accuracy . |
| 3 | The two effects , it is claimed , greatly reduce listener fatigue especially over sustained periods . |
| 4 | As firms set prices alternately over consecutive periods , price falls by small steps from the upper limit of the interval until it reaches the lower limit and then jumps back to the upper limit and the cycle begins again . |
| 5 | By contrast , the norm for curriculum change is for it to occur piecemeal and gradually over long periods . |
| 6 | He believed that the surface of the earth changed gradually over long periods of time , and saw that such changes would have an effect not only upon the physical environment to which living things were exposed , but upon the possibility of migration to new locations . |
| 7 | Indeed , talk to any manager and he or she already has common-sense theories of motivation , often built up over long periods of observing people at work . |
| 8 | ABOVE Experiments can be done to find out how ditches silt up over long periods of time , how earthworks erode , and how finds move . |
| 9 | Looking back over this period most farm workers view the introduction of the tractor and the combine harvester as representing a decisive break in the hitherto orderly pace of agricultural change — and in many respects this is undoubtedly what has occurred . |
| 10 | Pay it back over any period between 3 and 15 years . ’ |
| 11 | That the document containing the statement was produced by the computer during a period over which the computer was used regularly to store or process information for the purposes of any activity regularly carried on over that period , whether for profit or not , by any body , whether corporate or not , or by any individual ; |
| 12 | Cos even National Savings cycle over a five year period , and what you want to achieve is money coming back into your hands regularly over that period so you can take another look at what you 're doing . |
| 13 | One of the reasons why the purchasing power parity theorem has not worked so well over short periods is that the influence on currencies of current account flows has diminished , while capital account transactions have assumed a greater role . |
| 14 | Big business or some trade unions , for example , seem to have exercised power consistently over long periods of time . |
| 15 | Discourse is more like a moving film , revealing itself in time — sometimes over long periods . |
| 16 | The length of life we can expect to enjoy has gone up markedly over that period and the number of children who die before the age of five in developing countries has been reduced by half . |
| 17 | However , mortality from lung cancer increased significantly over this period . |
| 18 | The nationality of the top five lead managers in the eurobond market has changed significantly over this period — in itself an indicator of the intense competition prevalent in the market . |