Example sentences of "[be] over a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Withdrawal should be over an period of time to allow the Northern Irish time to establish a new form of government . |
| 2 | In many circumstances the service to the University may have been over a period several times the 3 years of undergraduate study . |
| 3 | No , it 's been , it 's been over a period of two or three years ? |
| 4 | Moorish Spain came into being over a period of several hundred years — from the period of the first Moslem conquest in the eighth century , to the eventual re-conquest by Christians from the north of the peninsula in the later part of the thirteenth century . |
| 5 | ‘ Villette ’ starts in the narrator 's girlhood , and takes place over several years ; ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ is over a period of three or four days . |