Example sentences of "a [num] year period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steers ( 1953 ) has quoted examples from the east coast : in Holderness in a thirty-seven year period towards the end of the last century the average loss from the coast was a strip 65 m ( 215 ft ) wide , or an average annual loss of about 1.75 m ( 6 ft ) , while the district suffering the most severe erosion lost 82 m ( 273 ft ) in the same period . |
| 2 | This will be particularly important in our efforts to explore the ways in which the private traumas of married couples have found their way on to the public agendas of churchmen , politicians , policy makers and others over a fifty year period . |
| 3 | Lamb , of 34A Howard Place , Edinburgh , has denied the allegations , which cover a four-and-a-half year period between 1985 and 1988 . |
| 4 | After a 43 year period of ownership , Terrt Brain has decided to sell the venerable aircraft . |
| 5 | Both groups of students will be tracked over a 2 year period . |
| 6 | The data were collected over a 22 year period during which the frequency of diagnosis of endometriosis increased dramatically , with , for example , the reported incidence at time of laparoscopic sterilisation rising from <5% to 18% . |
| 7 | Simulation tends to be used in problems where mathematical solutions are not possible , or where long time scales are involved ( eg predicting — population changes over a 30 year period ) , or where there is no other way of tackling the problem ( eg charting space-satellite trajectories ) . |
| 8 | Sanga-Sanga : The PSC , awarded in 1968 for a 30 year period , was subsequently extended to the year 2018 . |
| 9 | The report looked at the use of DSS to support R & D project selection over a 10 year period for ICI Pharmaceuticals . |
| 10 | All debentures are for a 10 year period . |
| 11 | An adult of 472 gastric emptying tests carried out over a 10 year period was performed to discover the reasons for requests from consultant clinicians , their anticipation of the results of tests , and the influence of the results upon the subsequent management of their patients . |
| 12 | He may feel he can get 2 or 3 lucrative moves over a 10 year period . |
| 13 | The House considers that the proposed $1.1 billion settlement — payable over a 10 year period — is inadequate . |
| 14 | Over a 7 year period , World Vision plans to plant 9 million trees in the Shone Valley . |
| 15 | In figure 9.14 , negative perceptions about the performance of the economy in the previous twelve months and pessimism about the economy in the following twelve months are plotted on the same scales over a six year period . |
| 16 | Over a six year period ( January 1984 to December 1989 ) 62 patients with bile duct strictures had exfoliative cytology carried out . |
| 17 | The aim of this study was to examine the pattern of acquisition of H pylori infection over a 21 year period in a group of 141 adults who had blood samples and serum stored in 1969 , 1978 , and 1990 . |
| 18 | By measuring H pylori antibody titres in serum samples collected and stored between 1969 and 1990 , we aimed at describing the pattern of acquisition of H pylori infection over a 21 year period in an adult population and thereby to determine the explanation for the higher prevalence of H pylori antibody with increasing age found in Western society . |
| 19 | As effective economic policy can hardly be judged in less than a three year period , and political affiliation is also a long-term question , it seems entirely reasonable that aid should be committed over a three year period . |
| 20 | As effective economic policy can hardly be judged in less than a three year period , and political affiliation is also a long-term question , it seems entirely reasonable that aid should be committed over a three year period . |
| 21 | This was how a Florida man described the graffiti with which he defaced a couple of hundred public library books over a three year period between 1977 and 1980 . |
| 22 | One company in the food processing and distribution market claimed that it experienced a 50% reduction in absenteeism from 8% to 4% over a three year period . |
| 23 | At the time of writing the fee stands at £30 for a three year period . |
| 24 | The evening turned out to be a spectacular climax to a year of consolidated growth for Embassy tennis , a tribute to its commitment to the game over a three year period . |
| 25 | Third , as we monitored our representative sample of schools over a three year period , we could perceive some of them undergoing a process of structural transition , shifting away from the simple two-tier model towards departmentalism and/or a matrix structure . |
| 26 | Funding was received from one Norwich newspaper , the Eastern Daily Press , who agreed to support the project over a three year period . |
| 27 | The commission is likely to be made up of three to four members and will be appointed for a three year period . |
| 28 | SCOTVEC 's new system of Advanced Courses will be phased in over a three year period . |
| 29 | In 1985 , the Industry and Employment Committee committed funds over a three year period for an initiative in New Technology . |
| 30 | The Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme was set up to enable social scientists , who have obtained a doctorate , to work full-time on original and independent research for a three year period . |