Example sentences of "[verb] over a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a start , it allows spreading to be carried over a longer period during the winter months ( Table 1 ) . |
| 2 | Boy charged with rape A 15-YEAR-OLD boy appeared before magistrates yesterday charged with rape and other serious sexual offences involving young children , alleged to have been committed over a lengthy period . |
| 3 | In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops . |
| 4 | The charge that higher education has over a longer period contributed to an anti-industrial ethos among the educated classes in Britain has been laid by Wiener ( 1981 ) and countered in different ways by Sanderson ( 1972 ) who points to manifold examples of involvement with industry , and Shattock ( 1987 ) who tends to lay the blame elsewhere , at the door of government and industry itself . |
| 5 | Brussels Cathedral ( 490 ) was built over a long period . |
| 6 | This was built over a long period — both Peter Parler and Rejsek worked on it . |
| 7 | It is currently estimated that , for every £100 million invested in trunk road improvements , about 100 road deaths and 4,500 casualties are saved over a 30-year period . |
| 8 | We shall remove tax distortions , require in-house services to be clearly costed and accounted for , and ensure that one-off costs are appraised over a realistic period . |
| 9 | By taking account of business and other operational plans , such as changes in working practices , projections are made over a five-year period to provide base information against which to evaluate alternative strategies on staffing requirements and costs . |
| 10 | It had been tracked over a three-year period by satellite and radio beacon and its movements have demonstrated that four separate currents affect the region of Antarctica near the Ross Ice shelf . |
| 11 | The share quotation list in the Defence commodity market is the Ministry 's Long-Term Costing , in which all programmes and projects are costed over a ten-year period . |
| 12 | As the ice slowly melts the plants are watered over a long period . |
| 13 | A Face of War was shot over a 97-day period , and portrays the experiences of Mike Company , 3rd Battalion , 7th Marine Regiment ; during this period Jones was wounded twice and one of his photographers once . |
| 14 | There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source . |
| 15 | THE essays included in the collection Women , Art and Power were written over a twenty-year period . |
| 16 | Signatories of GATT could institute tariff changes which might discriminate against third parties only if done over a long period of time , so giving those third parties the opportunities of adjusting to the change without suffering severe economic disruption . |
| 17 | In this type of study , trend values of consumption and income are collected over a long period of time so that most cyclical fluctuations are smoothed out . |
| 18 | In order to quantify relevant costs , it identified a number of cost categories , for which costs were collected over a ten-month period . |
| 19 | We should only consider such cases where there is clear evidence of extreme weather and abnormal falls of snow having occurred over a short period of time . |
| 20 | It was the result of a carefully planned experiment based on numerous other experiments performed over a long period . |
| 21 | Sponsored by Sainsbury 's supermarket chain , this year 's event at Smith 's Galleries in Covent Garden from 26 October offered 508 works sold over a six-day period , raising £241,248 . |
| 22 | One other study , in which a group of 341 epidemiologists had H pylori antibody state assessed over a mean period of 8.5 years , also showed a low rate of serovonversion to a positive antibody state over time , ( 0.49% per person year ) . |
| 23 | Should employees ’ location allowances decrease as a result of a transfer , any such decrease is phased over a three-year period . |
| 24 | The government on Dec. 27 announced that negotiations with the United States aimed at allowing the withdrawal of US forces from Subic Bay naval base to be phased over a three-year period had broken down . |
| 25 | To combat this trend , a rolling programme of new regulations is being introduced over a three-year period . |
| 26 | To be introduced over a two-year period , the reform had as its main aim the reduction of income tax rates while increasing indirect taxes , and tightening rules on the taxation of capital gains without altering the overall tax burden . |
| 27 | Because intensive subject assessment is concentrated over a short period of time , many felt that disruption of staff and students was less , in the long run , than under the normal system . |
| 28 | The run-down was to be stretched over a longer period and the agreed strength raised from Sandys ’ proposed 45,000 to 55,000 . |
| 29 | Figure 18.4 shows , by means of five-year moving averages of deaths per million in England and Wales , how the disease has behaved over a long period in relation to other serious illnesses . |
| 30 | The total number of pieces of gum used in the first day should be gradually reduced over a subsequent period of ten days . |