Example sentences of "[adj] over [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Height and weight charts are vital in determining the seriousness of the problem and are the best method of assessing whether the food intake is adequate over a certain period of time . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if the rug is allowed to remain damp over a protracted period , the colours may run and , more seriously , mildew may form and cause permanent damage to the foundation or pile . |
| 3 | Stress becomes harmful only when it exceeds our ability to cope with the situation , or when it continues unrelieved over a prolonged period . |
| 4 | In this way , the mother provides her baby with more food over the period of its development than she would be able to pack into a single egg , and what is more , she can do this over a long period instead of being compelled to produce it all at one moment . |
| 5 | Likewise the number of voters who think of themselves as being ‘ very strongly ’ committed to Labour has fallen by more than half over the same period to a mere 10 per cent of the electorate : of voters with of voters with Labour'very strong' Labour identificationidentification 19665024 19704721 19744516 19794211 19833711 19873613 19923711 |
| 6 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) has made it unequivocally clear over a long period of years that he is wholly opposed to unilateral devolution , which is what the Bill proposes . |
| 7 | These proposed innovatory Keynesian policies were distinct from the economic policies of the Labour and Conservative parties , for they demanded the use of bank credit , the ending of private land ownership , and the use of public works programmes to swallow up over half a million unemployed over a short period of time . |
| 8 | The bottom 10 over the same period were , in descending order : Save & Prosper Scotyields ; Henderson High Income ; Scottish Mutual Managed Income ; Fleming European Fledgling ; Save & Prosper High Return ; Prosperity Income & Growth ; Britannia Life Income Growth ; Fidelity Income Plus ; Guardian Royal Exchange Income ; and Scottish National Capital shares . |
| 9 | Shire enables a borrower to fix the maximum interest rate payable over an agreed period , and also gives the borrower the benefit of falls in the interest rate below a set level . |
| 10 | The number of self-employed also fell by 24,000 over the same period . |
| 11 | The crime rate was reported on July 6 , 1990 , to have risen by 11.9 per cent over the previous year , and on Oct. 25 , 1991 , to have risen by 10.9 per cent in the first nine months of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 12 | A Home Office statistical bulletin said nationally police recorded an 11pc increase in offences in the last quarter of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 13 | The funds thus obtained , which would be repayable over a five-year period , represented only about 15 per cent of the estimated cost of making good damage to infrastructure [ see p. 38362 ] ; most reconstruction funding was expected to come from oil revenues . |
| 14 | Equity ‘ bargain' averages have also increased from 7,280 to 36,148 over the same period . |
| 15 | That was better than the OECD ( Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ) European average of 106 falling to 89 over the same period . |
| 16 | Quite apart from these constraints there are more familiar problems associated with compound growth calculations : the weighting of capital and labour is on the crude basis of their respective shares in gross domestic income ; the technique of weighting from year to year is , as always , a compromise between different types of index ; compound rates of change are constant over a given period and , therefore , may not adequately reflect sharp movements within the period . |
| 17 | This pattern of mortality has remained approximately constant over the post-war period . |
| 18 | The second is that the cash flow is constant over the whole period and that C represents both dividend payments and capital gains ( losses ) where necessary . |
| 19 | In the present study , the terminology used in indexes has remained very constant over the whole period , but words used in thesis titles have reflected paradigm shifts , both within sub-disciplines and in the larger subject area . |
| 20 | This compares with structure plan estimates of need totalling 231,000 to 233,000 over the five-year period . |
| 21 | Could it not buy up businesses abroad ( $45 billion over the whole period 1950–67 ) , make loans and grants to foreign governments ( $50 billion ) or finance military expenditure abroad ( $44 billion ) simply by printing money ? |
| 22 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 23 | Those on investments in OPEC increased from $2.6 billion to $6.1 billion over the same period . |
| 24 | In particular , purchase allows the possibility ( which borrowing rules out ) of in-house use of materials , which may be quite heavy ( although Brown also comments that in some university libraries 70% of the stock has remained unused over a three-year period ) . |
| 25 | For example , between 1980 and 1990 the average advance to income ratio for first-time buyers rose from 1.67 to 2.19 , while the average percentage advance to first-time buyers rose from 73.8 to 82.5 over the same period . |
| 26 | So if y if the chemicals will do that over a long period of time to rubber , think what it would do to your skin . |
| 27 | erm it 's a case of whether I , I would 've expected that , that an analysis of that over a significant period of time w would even out , really . |
| 28 | If stable over a longer period , the presence or absence of trimer structures at certain positions on a surface could act as bits of digital data . |
| 29 | The nominal costs of collecting domestic rates were also reduced between 1983/4 and 1984/5 and rose very little over the whole period . |
| 30 | Of this , SDR49,500,000 would be available over the next 12 months under a standby arrangement and SDR81,500,000 would be available over a three-year period under an ESAF arrangement . |