Example sentences of "over [adj] a period " in BNC.
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1 | As this was higher than the average rate over such a period that had been experienced at any historical time , something had to be done . |
2 | In a matter as fundamental as that of the constitution of the church , God could not have allowed that error should have persisted over such a period of time . |
3 | no mitigating circumstances to excuse a condone the systematic , dishonest and cynical plunder of the Names ' ( investors ' ) premium over such a period of time and on such a scale . |
4 | Over such a period , as has already been apparent with Polaris , if we had only had three , we should not have been able to maintain that programme . |
5 | Over such a period the continual loss of blood from small persisting burdens of several hundred worms are sufficient to produce clinical signs associated primarily with loss of weight , weakness and inappetence rather than marked anaemia . |