Example sentences of "in [noun] over a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However in practice deterioration of stock inevitably sets in , through a variety of factors : original errors or omissions in selection ( for the reasons suggested above ) ; poor control of withdrawals and replacements ; fluctuations in funding over a period of years ; fluctuations in demand caused by changes in the constituency , or changes in their needs . |
| 2 | As it happens , there is a substantial engine refurbishment contract in the offing which ( although tenders have not yet been invited ) promises to bring someone several tens of millions of pounds in revenue over a period of a few years . |
| 3 | This gives judicial support to the view that financial statements have a limited useful life ( of less than 15 months ) and depreciate in usefulness over a period of time . |
| 4 | The purchaser of a life assurance contract does not make one payment at the beginning of the contract but pays a premium in instalments over a number of years . |
| 5 | The advantage the nationalist rhetoric and the nation statehood confers is that it is always legitimate , liquidating the nationals of other nation states , particularly in contention over a piece of territory . |
| 6 | In LEAs where a scheme of delegation has been in place over a period of years , the question of making more money soon arises . |
| 7 | This is a major project which will be introduced in phases over a number of years . |
| 8 | High rate of growth The rate of growth is a measure of the increase in output over a period of time . |
| 9 | THE CONTROVERSY in Norway over a bounty of £2000 , placed on the head of one of the country 's last wolves , has had to be settled at cabinet level . |
| 10 | As we saw earlier , the fact that the producing units of an industry increase in size over a number of years may be explained by the functional relation between their size and the cost of production . |
| 11 | The fry are born with large black eyes , but these steadily reduce in size over a period of weeks until they are covered with a cartilaginous sheath . |
| 12 | Infection by lymphocystis first appears as ‘ Cauliflower ’ -like growths which gradually increase in size over a period of several weeks or months . |
| 13 | Plants in some 34 families were used in Borneo over a period of 16 months and all but 5 were sources of fruit . |
| 14 | In the square a Quaker choir was performing , and old men in heavy overcoats were in uproar over a game of chess . |
| 15 | One solution to the difficulty of what the Cockcroft Report refers to as " recording positive achievement " which attempts to avoid laying too much stress on what pupils have not achieved is to record the growth in attainment over a period of time . |
| 16 | Engineers of this discipline are in the greatest demand , and receive the highest salaries at an early age , Imagine also that the raw material used by these engineers has been rapidly increasing in abundance and dramatically decreasing in cost over a period of 20 years . |
| 17 | As the plane hangs in darkness over a net of lights far below , Kate looks in amazement at her new sandals and the label on her hand luggage . |
| 18 | Storage space had to be found for this unusually large collection of books which arrived in batches over a period of weeks . |
| 19 | However , the supervision was of an extremely cursory nature : there were only thirty non-Koreans involved in observation over an area of approximately 40,000 square miles ( 100,000 sq . |