Example sentences of "over a longer [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Key Stage 2 pupils will go on to look at further examples , such as work or leisure , and changes over a longer timespan . |
| 2 | New patterns for External Verification are being developed but are being phased in gradually over a longer timescale . |
| 3 | Anyway we 're going to go for trap two , Smoky Amber here , now she 's a bitch that is really , I think 's going to be something special over a longer trip , erm you know a longer distance , but she is only a March eighty nine so she 's not two yet . |
| 4 | Angus Crichton-Miller , managing director of the Rank Organisation 's holidays and hotels division and a member of the study group said : ‘ It is not an efficient system to have such changes between busy and quiet periods and it would be better if we could flatten prices over a longer season , rather than have such high-peak-season prices . ’ |
| 5 | Between close kin it was possible for the exchanges to be one-way over a longer term , one person a net ‘ giver ’ at a particular point in time because of a reasonable confidence that he or she could be a net ‘ receiver ’ at a later stage . |
| 6 | So what I was wondering was er the scheme is in it 's infancy this and I 'm all in the favour of the decentralising in principle , but I think we ought to perhaps look at it a bit closer , and I would suggest that we have an up-to-date report at the next meeting of this committee so we can compare it over a longer term so , as that we might then reflect on a if we 're doing the right thing or not . |
| 7 | This is surprising in view of the fact that over a longer term measurements can vary by much more than this . |
| 8 | Er fix their interest rates over a longer term period . |
| 9 | But I I would slip back to my normal gloomy cautious self , and say that we do need to balance the years of deficit we have had , with years of surplus , we need to look at N C V O's finances over a longer term , than simply one year . |
| 10 | And again , over a longer time span genes will have changed by mutation or altered their effects by chromosomal recombination so that the effect they exert on traits can never be considered in isolation . |
| 11 | If , as it may be , such a system would cost more to operate than grant payments do , it would be of little advantage except in the important psychological sense that it would be a greater personal investment by the farmer over a longer time period . |
| 12 | ( A very similar series over a longer time span can be found in the dataset ECONOMY . ) |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose , ’ said Suvarov , paying no attention to her rudeness or the incipient hysteria in her voice , ‘ because it was so important … not just fighting it , but being part of it , doing one 's best and living more intensely over a longer time than one had before . ’ |
| 14 | This experiment was conducted over a longer time period ( ten days ) , starting with young plants . |
| 15 | I should very much like the opportunity to discuss with the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends , and other colleagues from Northern Ireland , how we can introduce a strategy for promoting inward investment over a longer time scale than that hitherto adopted . |
| 16 | Development of all major new weapons programmes would nevertheless continue but over a longer time span . |
| 17 | Can I extend my covenant , if I wish to continue making payments over a longer period ? |
| 18 | For instance we can suggest ways of rescheduling the payments over a longer period . |
| 19 | They have given staff in schools the space to meet as a group and get to terms with issues over a longer period , complementing the series of other meetings and team meetings that go on anyway . |
| 20 | Another reason for our inability to give accurate figures is due to the prevalence of several other types of population movement , some of them on a huge scale , although extended over a longer period . |
| 21 | Unlike offices , the level of income fluctuates although sometimes over a longer period it fluctuates at a higher level than commercial . |
| 22 | The run-down was to be stretched over a longer period and the agreed strength raised from Sandys ’ proposed 45,000 to 55,000 . |
| 23 | It means you have to keep club staff there for a lot longer , till about 6.30 , and that people spend their money over a longer period of time . |
| 24 | For a start , it allows spreading to be carried over a longer period during the winter months ( Table 1 ) . |
| 25 | The examination of all the images produced during a particular period or of a selection of images over a longer period will often provide a good idea of how the relevant state or regime wished to represent itself . |
| 26 | Over a longer period , substances produced in quantities of between 10 and 1000 tpa will be covered , while substances of which less than 10 tpa are produced annually will not come within the scope of the programme for the time being . |
| 27 | If stable over a longer period , the presence or absence of trimer structures at certain positions on a surface could act as bits of digital data . |
| 28 | An additional incentive is that a garden , in contrast to its associated historic building , does not always need substantial sums for major fabric repairs at the outset and can be revived over a longer period of time . |
| 29 | Nor did she see coherence over a longer period partly because her own world was a social one dominated by friends , clothes , music and beckoning adulthood . |
| 30 | However , if it were possible to keep careful watch over a longer period , you would discover two interesting things . |