Example sentences of "over [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period . |
| 2 | This did not happen during the golden years of 1966–80 : over that period GNP grew by an average of 10.4% a year and the workforce by 4.7% . |
| 3 | Since India 's population grew by nearly a quarter over that period , this means that about 80m people managed to clamber above the poverty line in a decade . |
| 4 | Geneticists estimated that had they not selected for mastitis resistance the national incidence would have increased by 1.5% over that period . |
| 5 | A monthly £200 grows to £3,479.55 over that period . |
| 6 | The best performing unit trust over that period would have produced £9,481 . |
| 7 | It was over that period we started to climb . |
| 8 | His 70 appearances were only improved over that period by the evergreen John McCormick , goalkeeper John Jackson and the much younger Mel Blyth , and they tell us something of the fitness and sheer determination of the man . |
| 9 | ‘ It used to , but working with Dave over that period of time means we 've mostly solved the problems . |
| 10 | They are compared with figures for actual growth over that period , with the forecast error in the third column . |
| 11 | Hence , over that period , total corporation tax has exceeded ICI 's total real profits before tax . |
| 12 | After our return from France we felt that we still did not have the complete story of that operation , and so we went to the Public Records Office at Kew to look up the records of 22 Squadron over that period . |
| 13 | The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — though Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period . |
| 14 | The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — when Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period . |
| 15 | Britain 's had to provide more than £27 billion ( $17 billion ) against bad loans over that period . |
| 16 | They did , however , continue to offer exceptionally generous hire purchase terms on cookers : one Board , for example , offered repayments over ten years and a free parts and replacement service over that period . |
| 17 | The text takes the form of extracts from the author 's holiday diaries between 1946 and 1990 and reflects on changes over that period . |
| 18 | There can be little doubt that Hayward had come to rely upon him over that period , and felt in some sense that he had been abandoned . |
| 19 | It shows the steady increase in both sectors and modes of study over that period , to the current total of about one million . |
| 20 | But it is perhaps more important to give attention to the growth of the British economy over that period , and to the role played by government in relation to that economy . |
| 21 | No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical . |
| 22 | Over that period the proportion of the British work-force falling below the Council of Europe 's minimum ‘ decency threshold ’ for wages increased from 36 per cent to 42.3 per cent … |
| 23 | Cos even National Savings cycle over a five year period , and what you want to achieve is money coming back into your hands regularly over that period so you can take another look at what you 're doing . |
| 24 | The maximum amount of sediment likely to be deposited over that period along the coast generally is about 30 centimetres and we know that hurricanes will certainly rearrange that amount of material . |
| 25 | Over that period : |
| 26 | The length of life we can expect to enjoy has gone up markedly over that period and the number of children who die before the age of five in developing countries has been reduced by half . |
| 27 | Over that period there has been only a 10 per cent . |
| 28 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that that is an impressive increase over that period of years ? |
| 29 | That is a virtual doubling of the income from occupational pensions over that period . |
| 30 | Living standards at all income levels improved over that period . |