Example sentences of "[noun sg] over the period " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 3 the EC Commission announced , in response to US demands for radical cuts in subsidies paid out to farmers , that it had proposed a 30 per cent cut in its farm-support programme over the period 1986 to 1996 . |
| 2 | It also shows women are over-represented in education , languages and literature and music/drama/art/design , whereas men are over-represented in engineering and technology and science , and that this pattern has not changed a great deal over the period , despite attempts to even out the balance , and in particular to attract more women on to science and technology courses . |
| 3 | By combining such indicators , a quantitative picture can be presented of what has happened in British central government administration over the period both corporately and in individual departments ; and the question of whether changes in one dimension are related to changes in others can be examined . |
| 4 | British industry 's rates of growth were markedly below those of its European counterparts and as a result an absolute advantage was transformed into an absolute disadvantage over the period . |
| 5 | It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) . |
| 6 | Demographic and migration trends indicated that the rate of new household formation over the period of the structure plan ( i.e. until the mid-1990s ) was expected to be half of the post-war average levels and total population was likely to fall . |
| 7 | Last year , turnover was £174 million and profits £33 million , a compound profit growth rate of 82 per cent ( making it Britain 's 93rd-best profit performer over the period ) . |
| 8 | the price range over the period of interest denoted , ( Segall , 1956 ; Garcia , Leuthold and Zapata , 1986 ; Martell and Wolf , 1987 ; Board and Sutcliffe , 1990 ) ; |
| 9 | This applies most readily to a partnership , for example , where the financial statements are concerned with showing wealth and the change in wealth over the period . |
| 10 | Since 1985 profits growth in the division has been restricted to an average of less than 5 per cent a year and as 40 per cent of revenues come from the US the one third fall in the dollar over the period obviously affected the outcome as have rising R&D costs . |
| 11 | In a series of analyses , we vary the climate sensitivity and a scaling factor linking changes in solar cycle length to radiative forcing , and determine the best fit between annual modelled and observed global-mean ( land-plus-marine ) temperature by maximizing the explained variance over the period 1861–1985 ( following ref. 11 ) . |
| 12 | Of these , only two , the chaffinch and the greenfinch , registered a slight increase in population over the period . |
| 13 | The objective of the [ draft ] FRS is to ensure that financial statements provide a clear , coherent and consistent treatment of capital instruments , in particular as regards the classification of instruments either as debt or as equity ; that costs associated with capital instruments are allocated to accounting periods on a fair basis over the period the instrument is in issue ; and that financial statements provide relevant information concerning the nature and amount of the entity 's sources of finance and the associated costs , commitments and potential commitments . |
| 14 | This guidance states that adjustments are appropriate ‘ … in order that a true and fair view is presented of profits stated on a consistent basis over the period covered by the report ’ |
| 15 | The act was a considerable relaxation of earlier limitations and indeed , the progressive relaxation over the period seems to be as much a testimony to the improved load-bearing of the roads as an accommodation of the expanding volume of goods traffic . |
| 16 | A further important issue concerning the relationship between the State scheme , contracted-out final salary schemes and , increasingly , personal pensions , is the terms for contracting-out over the period 1993 to 1998 . |
| 17 | It expects the 78% share of desktops currently running by MS-DOS to fall to 29% by 1997 , the Apple Macintosh to retain a 10% share over the period , Windows to rise from last year 's 7% to 28% , Unix to grow from 4% to 10% , OS/2 to rise from 1% to 8% and Windows NT to grow from nowhere to 14% over the five years . |
| 18 | At the highest dose examined ( 500 pM/kg ) , it resulted in a 30.2% increase in bile output over the period 30–150 minutes after injection when compared with control ( control : 23.2 ( 1.2 ) ml/2 hours ; neuropeptide Y : 30.6 ( 1.1 ) ml/2 hours ) ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 19 | Thus , the great advance in literacy over the period and the expansion of the young population . |
| 20 | In the standard account of the party 's growth into a modern political organisation over the period 1910–24 , McKibbin ( 1974 ) concludes that the war was not of first importance to its ultimate rise to power : |
| 21 | The control which state and interests together could exert over society and economy contributed to a uniquely low level of class conflict for much of the twentieth century so ensuring a political stability that reached a head over the period 19455 . |
| 22 | Thus there is no evidence over the period from 1963 onwards that the excess found in Seascale extends to a wider area around Sellafield , though for the most recent period there was a slight increase in the incidence of lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas in the rest of Cumbria , particularly among children aged 0–4 years . |
| 23 | Line lengths averaged 51 kms , compared to the North Sea norm of 15kms and the Nordic Explorer averaged a production rate of 70 sail line kms per day over the period . |
| 24 | Both the purchasing power of the ultimate benefit and the real cost of any future premiums payable will depend on the rate of inflation over the period of the contract . |
| 25 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown : |
| 26 | The value of your eventual cash sum and monthly premiums depends on the rate of inflation over the period of the Plan . |
| 27 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if annual rates of inflation over the period are as shown . |
| 28 | Both the purchasing power of the ultimate benefit and the real cost of any future premiums/investments payable will depend on the rate of inflation over the period of the contract . |
| 29 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown . |
| 30 | Both the purchasing power of the ultimate benefit and the real cost of any future premiums/investments payable will depend on the rate of inflation over the period of the contract . |