Example sentences of "over [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maximum amount of sediment likely to be deposited over that period along the coast generally is about 30 centimetres and we know that hurricanes will certainly rearrange that amount of material . |
| 2 | ‘ It used to , but working with Dave over that period of time means we 've mostly solved the problems . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that that is an impressive increase over that period of years ? |
| 4 | The problem is that we seem to have dropped the Health Service off more and more and more over that period of time , and I think , to be fair , the programme sums it all up , two motions on the Health Service . |
| 5 | I made it clear that our policy was to use that money to reduce the level of the council tax over that period of time . |
| 6 | His 70 appearances were only improved over that period by the evergreen John McCormick , goalkeeper John Jackson and the much younger Mel Blyth , and they tell us something of the fitness and sheer determination of the man . |
| 7 | Ward managers report on expected levels of work over specific period of time throughout a typical week . |
| 8 | The specification will need to be satisfactory over this period with only limited opportunities for a change of policy until the contract finishes . |
| 9 | has fallen over this period from seventy eight per cent to twenty eight per cent . |
| 10 | If the recession lasts much longer , and with present cuts in Government funding , the board will not have enough money to invest to tide itself over this period in which young people face such difficulties . |
| 11 | While this single figure conceals sharp year-to-year fluctuations as well as a secular upward trend , it is noteworthy that sums raised over this period by bond finance ( including convertible bonds ) exceeded those raised by the issue of ordinary shares and also exceeded the sums raised for the government by the sale of gilt-edged securities . |
| 12 | Price changes ( or returns ) can be viewed as caused by the arrival of information Over some period of time the price change ( or return ) is the sum of a large number of random effects . |
| 13 | Plenty of them had only been raped over one period of 24 hours but never less than by six or seven men . |
| 14 | Pay it back over any period between 3 and 15 years . ’ |
| 15 | Our own view is that the costs to the economy of insider trading exceed the benefits , but it seems to be impossible to quantify either costs or benefits over any period of time … |
| 16 | Thus , we have : For two main reasons , economists are usually quite happy to work with ‘ gross ’ rather than ‘ net ’ figures : first , depreciation tends to change only slowly over time so that the ‘ gross ’ and ‘ net ’ figures move closely together over any period of a few years ; and secondly , depreciation figures are notoriously difficult to estimate with any accuracy . |
| 17 | When you take out a Midland Car Loan you have the choice of repaying the money over any period from 6 months to 5 years ( in steps of 6 months ) . |