Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] over a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answer guide : To provide a guide to the way in which a business has performed over a period of time . |
| 2 | In the case of the urban riots , it is the nature of the television coverage which is in essence inciting other young people in different parts of the country to civil disobedience , whereas in the case of football violence , the implication is that the perceived lack of moral leadership by the broadcasting corporations has led over a period of years to a general moral climate in this country which fails to provide adequate controls over the behaviour of the nation 's youth . |
| 3 | CHESAPEAKE BAY Has created over a period of about 17000 years . |
| 4 | My belief is that our good practice has evolved over a period of more than 50 years and that it has developed in classrooms through the dedicated expertise of British teachers enjoying the relative freedom traditionally allowed within our education system . |
| 5 | Allowance will be made for the early payment of a lump sum to the employer which he would have earned over a period of time . |
| 6 | People 's eating habits and food preferences are learned ; they are habits that become ingrained over a period of years . |
| 7 | Eisenhower had presided over a period of grim Cold War tension which he , like most Americans , believed had been caused by the ambitions of world communism . |
| 8 | At the university here we have got two or three groups in which we do know how to do that and especially the work that I 'm associated with , again the arts undergraduates , we have developed over a period now of something like six years , ways of giving them confidence , and it 's amazing to see what happens . |