Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] over [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 2 | Barclays Bank would not divulge its figures despite repeated requests over a period of three weeks . |
| 3 | He said it would change and tone a man in three five-minute sessions over a period of a week . |
| 4 | People have made wonderful toys in a lot of different places over a period of time . |
| 5 | Last year 's summer play scheme was the first in the Dyfi Valley and attracted more than 800 children over a period of four weeks to Ysgol Bro Ddyfi . |
| 6 | Through the creation and use of databases in a number of different contexts over a period of time , pupils develop an awareness of the microcomputer as an information handling tool rather than a games machine or programming instrument , while , at the same time , developing valuable learning skills . |
| 7 | If an example is needed to make this clearer one can be found in the special place occupied by the Second World War in public consciousness in Britain and , more particularly , in Margaret Thatcher 's increasingly deliberate manipulation of Churchillian sketches over the period of the Falklands crisis . |
| 8 | It ran for four separate days over a period of weeks , followed by an exam when all managed to pass . |
| 9 | Table E11.1 shows annual changes over the period 1977–85 in the number of live births , the crude birth rate , the general fertility rate , and the total period fertility rate ; seasonally adjusted quarterly rates for 1984 and 1985 are also included . |
| 10 | Conditions for the facility include the curbing of inflation , the rebuilding of foreign exchange reserves to reach a positive current balance after three years , and steady annual economic growth of between 3 and 3.5 per cent in real terms over the period . |
| 11 | Figure 8 is an example of such a study which recorded and classified accidents over a period of time . |
| 12 | What you should look for is evidence of good , consistent results over a period of 10 to 20 years . |
| 13 | We tested six tents over a period of three months in weather ranging from sunshine to horizontal rain . |
| 14 | Ian Wyllie , who studied cuckoos extensively in Cambridgeshire reed-beds , saw it just three times over a period of six years after thousands of hours of observation . |
| 15 | Davies v. Sumner is the leading authority on the meaning of the expression ‘ in the course of a business ’ and has been followed in a case under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , R. & B. Customs Brokers v. United Dominion Trust , where it was held that a business 's buying of two or three cars over a period of five years was an insufficient degree of regularity for the latest such purchase to be regarded as made in the course of the business ( see paragraph 10–18 above . ) |
| 16 | The results of these labours over a period of fifty years were many papers and five influential books , the last two of which were completed by his son . |
| 17 | The Medical Correspondent of the UK Sunday Times reported in May 1990 that the anti-oestrogen drug , tamoxifen , used for several years to treat women actually suffering from breast-cancer , is now to be tested on 30,000 human subjects over a period of five years to assess its potential as a preventative of the disease in healthy women . |
| 18 | ‘ A prisoner , who it was alleged had recently been refused Compassionate Home Leave to visit a dangerously ill relative , had already been allowed three visits over a period of three weeks . |
| 19 | Hanson has been built up into one of Britain 's leading companies over a period of twenty years based on an acquisition philosophy which involves a reduction in the acquired company 's bureaucracy , devolution of responsibility to local managers , a tight control of capital expenditure and a disposal of some of the peripheral assets which are not part of the company 's ‘ core activities ’ . |
| 20 | But the main idea in the Green Paper was to replace domestic rates over a period of years by a community charge . |
| 21 | Any body left in this room will be digested by fungal enzymes over a period of D4+1 days , depending on size , and organic equipment left here — leather , sacking , cloth , etc. — will likewise be digested in 24 hours . |
| 22 | What seems clear from the chart is that the real exchange rates have deviated by much larger amounts over the period 1978–88 than in the early years of floating . |
| 23 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
| 24 | Figure 9.1 shows the movements in real exchange rates of the major currencies over the period 1974 — 88 . |
| 25 | Table 6.1 shows the distribution of PNP Scale l/MPG roles revealed by the survey of all schools over the period 1986–9 . |
| 26 | The usual procedure is for a sample , which is then referred to as the ‘ panel ’ , to be selected in the usual way , as described on pp. 35–9 above , and for data about this sample to be collected at regular intervals over a period of years . |
| 27 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 28 | Daily returns were used from 1260 securities over the period July 1962 to December 1972 . |
| 29 | MacDonald claims that the only located source of systematic collection of data on the progress of non-traditional students over a period of years was at Glasgow Polytechnic for the BA Social Science course . |
| 30 | Our estimate is that the city itself needs something in the order of five thousand jobs over the period of the structure plan to er really just to stay still , to run to run to stand still . |