Example sentences of "[coord] over a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often this is to do with the fact that the current bereavement has driven the person into emotional overload because of everything else that is happening in their life either currently or over a period of time . |
| 2 | This may be in a particular meeting or over a period of time . |
| 3 | The everyday lives of ordinary people are not the basis for good television unless the characters and events are portrayed in a consistently entertaining fashion , and over a period of time ; hence the great success of television soap operas . |
| 4 | According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies . |
| 5 | This does not add much to the cost of the order , and over a period of time the extra components build up into a useful stock of parts . |
| 6 | The masculine energy is made available , and over a period of time the woman can crystallize that energy into a bond that will hold fast . |
| 7 | The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving . |
| 8 | A programme of restoration back to full working order followed and over a period of 18 months , it was stripped , restored and rebuilt to its present immaculate condition . |
| 9 | In both cases you have to find a deposit , and over a period of time pay off what is , in effect , a loan . |
| 10 | The place was besieged , and over a period of months , including a winter , the English grip tightened . |
| 11 | Also studied were the consistency of performance of individuals within and between topics , between mode of assessment and over a period of time . |
| 12 | The intention here was to allow the interviewer to simulate a conversation and over a period move towards a more symmetrical interactive relationship so that this interviewing style came to resemble participant observation . |
| 13 | They were already used to using signs , and over a period the handlers picked them up . ’ |
| 14 | In Woodrow , it was held that affray is a continuing offence , so that where an indictment charged the defendants with a single offence and particularised several incidents that had occurred at different places and over a period of several hours , the indictment was not bad for duplicity . |
| 15 | This stage is followed by a search for means to implement the desired change and over a period of time a cycle of problems are handled by this method . |
| 16 | Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective . |
| 17 | But over a period of time , two things disturb this equilibrium : evaporation and infiltration . |
| 18 | The third type requires such intervention but over a period of years , usually nearly into adolescence , and often there is never complete resolution . |
| 19 | I want a powder , a potion , one which will not kill immediately but over a period of months , undetected by her or any physician . ’ |
| 20 | But over a period of time , erm , they are not directly equivalent , but very nearly so . |