Example sentences of "[be] [adj] over a period " in BNC.

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1 If you are unsuccessful over a period of time there 's always a chance you will part company . ’
2 Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington .
3 The loans would be repayable over a period of 20 years at 3.5 per cent interest .
4 The European Community has put in place a range of measures which are capable over a period of time of leading to a solution .
5 Many players , as it happened , were coming near to the age of retirement , so it was possible over a period of six or seven years to make the orchestra young again .
6 Thus when endothelium was stripped from rabbit aorta in vivo prostacyclin production at the luminal surface of the vessel was virtually absent and recovery of prostacyclin production was slow over a period of 70 days coinciding with the appearance of neointimal cells ( Eldor et al , 1981 ) .
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