Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have occurred in the western Pacific Ocean where the age of the lithosphere presently being subducted indicates that cooling over a period of about 180 200 Ma is required for this process of spontaneous subduction to occur . |
| 2 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 3 | Eggs hatching over a period like this presents no problems for the megapodes . |
| 4 | 4.15 In Povey v Governors of Rydal School [ 1970 ] 1 All ER 841 the plaintiff was awarded £8,400 to cover the cost of renewing over a period of 25 years the special hydraulic lifting appliance required to lift his wheel-chair in and out of a motor car . |
| 5 | The insecurities of life in the border districts , maturing over a period of 14 years , had produced Poles who were very Polish , and Germans who were very German . |
| 6 | She was cautious , though , and Edouard , watching her , realised that his relationship with his mother was changing yet again-that it had , perhaps , been altering over a period of time . |
| 7 | Do this exercise three times and then increasing over a period of three weeks to six times . |
| 8 | Anyone who deals with Ottoman institutions will know how perilous is the task of trying to define terms , since a number are possessed of multiple significations , often changing over a period of time , and the particular sense intended in any given case is not always clear from the context : will serve as one example , another , and , in the learned profession , which has the limited sense of a student at the Sahn and the wider sense of any student in " higher " education , that is , at a 20-akce medrese or above . |
| 9 | But it was not only officers and members of the WEA and the District who were pleased with the final agreement over the rural areas scheme and the conclusion of negotiations of byzantine complexity extending over a period of four difficult years . |
| 10 | If the investigation is a sustained piece of work extending over a period of weeks , a diary work file or log book of activities should be maintained . |
| 11 | Continental basins generally seem to be long-lived features with a subsidence history often extending over a period of 100 Ma or more . |
| 12 | Multiplying both sides of equation ( 11.8 ) by and integrating over a period of the fundamental , , that is , from to Hence the equivalent expression to equations ( 11.4 ) — ( 11.6 ) giving the amplitudes of the harmonics of a Fourier series is |
| 13 | This is best done by setting aside a period each day when observation and recording are carried out — perhaps a different hour each day . |
| 14 | As conditions improved , the more hardy Koi were introduced , the rest following over a period of weeks . |