Example sentences of "[verb] over [art] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travel agents and tour operators often make back to back reservations which means that certain accommodation is booked over a period of time and as one group of guests depart another group takes their place . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Such a selection policy is clearly professionally and publicly unacceptable , from any political grouping , and if pursued over a period of time , will surely replace education with propaganda as one of the purposes of the public library service . |
| 4 | If unions or individuals bargain for , and receive , wages on the basis of an expected rate of inflation that does not occur , then real wages will be higher or lower than expected over the period of the bargain . |
| 5 | According to Barclays Computer Operations , Barclay 's services arm which manages the data centres , the old kit was installed over a period of one to four years . |
| 6 | This success lies behind his translation to Canterbury in the following year ; thereafter , until his death in 1381 , he presided over a period of taxation the scale of which exceeded even that of the early years of the reign . |
| 7 | If the holder has an option to redeem at a premium , that premium should be accrued over the period to the earliest date at which the option can be exercised . |
| 8 | These are examined with the intention of establishing a ‘ vocabulary ’ of Unionism and to chart how it changed over the period as a whole . |
| 9 | Their savings were indeed high by Western standards ( largely because of poor government welfare provision and high and escalating housing costs ) , and they rose over the period from 9 to 16 per cent of their income . |
| 10 | Where , well where er disruptive selection i i i is very huge differences between men , male and female and this was then accentuated over a period of time |
| 11 | But levied over a period of three years it brought in about £80,000 and became the prototype for later subsidies . |
| 12 | Furthermore measurement has usually to be made over a period of time . |
| 13 | A few months later , Harry Goodman responded with a full frontal attack , claiming that 9000 children in the care of the RCM had ‘ practically no Jewish contacts and that no effort had been made over a period of years to give these children some religious education ’ . |
| 14 | Police believe the tape was made over a period of time . |
| 15 | John Szarkowski wrote in the preface to the first volume : " Atget 's own prints were made over a period of many years , on a variety of photographic papers . |
| 16 | It includes Conwy and Caernarfon , whose castles were only begun in 1283 and not finished until 1292 , and it has therefore been suggested that it was made over a period of years . |
| 17 | An end-quarter exchange rate is used as interest lies in the gains that could be made over the period in which the yield differential held on average . |
| 18 | The activities Kim was told to engage in were pre-selected by her mother from a range of things that Kim could do over a period of 10 minutes or so . |
| 19 | Ironically , very often it is conservation policies , successfully applied over a period of time , that have made the centre a more attractive investment to owners and increased the value of properties . |
| 20 | Where I differ from him is on the nature of the collection as a whole , which to me seems a collection of poems differing in method and indeed quality , written over a period of years , and having two distinct sequences , to the Friend and to the ‘ Dark Lady ’ . |
| 21 | The corpus relevant to BT numbers hundreds of separate items and fills about four hundred printed pages ; it is contained in fourteen different notebooks , written over a period of two years ( autumn 1869 to autumn 1871 ) . |
| 22 | In March of the following year Mr Henderson was appointed treasurer of the Building Fund and the cost of the building scheme was estimated at £18,000 a sum which could be met over a period of 7 years . |
| 23 | Doing it manually , it had to be done over a period of two or three days , fitting it in after work . ’ |
| 24 | Where information , particularly of a detailed nature , is to be collected over a period of time the panel has clear attractions . |
| 25 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 26 | Economy is a measure of how much the product costs over the period of use with regard to the performance achieved . |
| 27 | Answer guide : To provide a guide to the way in which a business has performed over a period of time . |
| 28 | The same chart was used over a period of 4 weeks . |
| 29 | Although , perhaps it was fortunate in one sense that er it completely destroyed the main machine shop and er it , it all happened over a period of about twenty to twenty five minutes . |
| 30 | These proposals will result in a systematic charge to the p&l account for instruments such as deep discount bonds , and will ensure that the premium on convertible bonds incorporating a premium put option is recognised over the period from issue to the exercise date — as is , in fact , already required by UITF Abstract 1 . |