Example sentences of "over [art] period [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The value of the shares in a hypothetical portfolio of acquired banks rose by 420% over the period studied , against a 160% increase for a portfolio of wallflower banks . |
| 2 | Dilnot and Kell felt that any ‘ incentive ’ effect which may have been present could only account , at most , for 1.2bn or 3% of the total increase in tax revenues over the period studied . |
| 3 | The subject headings under which theses have been categorised in the Rolfe , Will , and Laming lists may be used to assess the relative importance of different sub-disciplines in the earth sciences over the period studied . |
| 4 | The financial costs of various resources ( such as costs of physical resources and labour ) should be quantified and a statement of required expenditure over the period obtained . |
| 5 | No classification is entirely satisfactory and was not consistent over the period represented here but the category included : engineers , railway employees , carpenters , building trades and labourers , tailors and dressmakers , boot and shoe operatives , printing trades , postmen , policemen , blacksmiths , farm labourers , textile factory workers , gardeners and caretakers . |
| 6 | The figures below show how credit use has changed over the period covered by these three surveys . |
| 7 | Over the period covered by this book new rivals have appeared on the Whitehall scene . |
| 8 | This both ignores major changes in the definition of unemployment over the period covered by Table 4.1 and compounds residential-based information ( unemployment ) with workplace-based information ( employment ) . |
| 9 | Second , there is no consistent pattern over the period covered by the table between , on the one hand , the level of supplementary benefit , and the proportion of ‘ eligible ’ strikers , i.e. those involved in strikes lasting for more than two weeks when supplementary benefit is normally payable . |
| 10 | This guidance states that adjustments are appropriate ‘ … in order that a true and fair view is presented of profits stated on a consistent basis over the period covered by the report ’ |
| 11 | The first equation in this model is an estimate of the process that monetary growth followed over the period considered . |
| 12 | The target 's circular to shareholders must disclose purchases and redemptions made over the period commencing 12 months prior to the offer period and ending with the latest practicable date prior to the posting of the document . |
| 13 | Whilst the total number of holidays authorized increased by nearly 50 per cent over the period shown both Thomson and Intasun expanded by a greater proportion but with Intasun far outstripping Thomson 's growth . |
| 14 | In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson 2 ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish . |
| 15 | In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish . |
| 16 | The act was a considerable relaxation of earlier limitations and indeed , the progressive relaxation over the period seems to be as much a testimony to the improved load-bearing of the roads as an accommodation of the expanding volume of goods traffic . |
| 17 | The Community shall adopt measures with the aim of progressively establishing the internal market over a period expiring on 31 December 1992 … |
| 18 | And er over a period diversify into er different markets . |
| 19 | The police had , over a period exceeding 24 hours , interviewed this young man four times without obtaining a confession from him in respect of the robbery . |
| 20 | It is often argued that survey data give a very limited analysis of managerial policies which are developed over a period to deal with specific problems and this study should help to test such methodological criticisms . |
| 21 | It should be noted that owing to the increase in size and complexity of modern business , the development of computer systems and the requirement that an auditor should review transactions over a period to report on the profit and loss account , the modern practice of auditing has moved away from a detailed checking of a mass of individual items towards a review of the systems in operation . |
| 22 | The occasional hairline crack in external brickwork need not be of any significance , but should be observed over a period to see if it extends or widens . |
| 23 | Although the United States accepted the case for the dollar eventually being convertible into SDRs , in its view this had to result from the dollar being sufficiently competitive to generate enough capital and current account surpluses over a period to make convertibility a reality . |