Example sentences of "[verb] over a period of " 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 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 .
5 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 .
6 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
7 But levied over a period of three years it brought in about £80,000 and became the prototype for later subsidies .
8 Furthermore measurement has usually to be made over a period of time .
9 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 ’ .
10 Police believe the tape was made over a period of time .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 ’ .
16 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 ) .
17 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 .
18 Doing it manually , it had to be done over a period of two or three days , fitting it in after work . ’
19 Where information , particularly of a detailed nature , is to be collected over a period of time the panel has clear attractions .
20 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 .
21 Answer guide : To provide a guide to the way in which a business has performed over a period of time .
22 The same chart was used over a period of 4 weeks .
23 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 .
24 Saving on housing is more than often , very unwise , when depreciated over a period of 10 years , the extra cost may be no more than a few eggs per bird extra .
25 If this loyalty is stretched over a period of 28 years , it is certainly worthy of note !
26 In particular , the number of stopping places available to them has been drastically reduced over a period of three or four decades during which the travelling population has been on the increase , although I have not been able to discover the measure of it .
27 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 .
28 Bedwetting baselines are best set over a period of at least 2 weeks because of the often intermittent nature of the problem .
29 A project to research the method was undertaken over a period of approximately one year on a part-time basis ; at various stages a number of different practitioners from management services disciplines were involved , each receiving some informal training on the principles and practice of soft systems analysis .
30 This case study was undertaken over a period of two months through a series of day visits to the school .
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