Example sentences of "over this period " in BNC.

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1 Over this period the NRO has put into orbit over Russia and other countries a wide variety of satellites designed to bring back all kinds of visual and electronic intelligence .
2 single mothers increased almost as much over this period — by 77 per cent .
3 The changes in the composition of income over this period are shown in the Table .
4 Over this period the UK has liberalised economic regulations in many sectors and privatised others .
5 There was consistent growth over this period and it is notable that this occurred despite the collapse in demand during the 1970s .
6 A cruel analysis of the last 30 years in education might say that the succession of Schools Council , then the Schools Curriculum Development Committee and then the NCC neatly summarises the way that education has been perceived over this period .
7 The 20,000 placements achieved over this period have provided the basis of practice on which the service can now build , but it is important to move from externally driven activity to a school driven model .
8 The dotted line shows sales over this period last year .
9 Despite these various arguments suggesting high unemployment from rapid technical change which are based on the foundation laid by him , Leontief has himself , with a colleague ( Leontief and Duchin 1983 ) , recently published the results of a survey of the likely effects of new technology on the US economy up to the year 2000 which concludes that , far from there being net job losses , there will be a substantial rise in the aggregate labour force over this period due to the rapid take-up of the technology .
10 A complex interplay of industrial structure , patterns of social relations , efficacy of constituency organisation , trade union strength and national development determined the achievement of local parties , and hence an understanding of the political dimensions of working-class action over this period has in large measure to incorporate the locality .
11 The note indicates that the rate of increase is higher than that for restaurant prices in general over this period , and this could account for some of the reduction in business .
12 The rise in total goods and services available over this period is put at between thirty-fold and fifty-fold .
13 The recent Royal Commission on Incomes and Wealth analysed the sources of finance for the larger quoted industrial and financial companies in the U K and found that between 1950–72 internally generated funds accounted for an average 70 per cent of total finance over this period .
14 Of his eight symphonies written over this period , two ( No 25 in G minor , K.183 , and No 29 in A major , K.201 ) are works of outstanding maturity , and are his earliest symphonies to take their place in the standard modern repertory .
15 Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat .
16 Accordingly , the major contribution of economics to policy over this period has been in providing some short-term corrections to economic activity whilst being able to do little to alter the long-term trend .
17 Again , height changes over this period ( Table 1 and Fig. 2 b ) are small , so a linear zone of subsurface mass increases connected to a central feeder conduit is inferred .
18 Even the more substantial changes pale against the broad sweep of political , social and economic progress over this period .
19 In order to engage in comparisons over time we were faced with a dilemma stemming from the change in the range of newspapers over this period .
20 Surprisingly , over this period the press reporting of rape dramatically increased , despite the indirect attempts to control it .
21 But the figures in both groups indicate that there has been no decrease in housewor k time over this period .
22 Over this period an influential school of thought called monetarism has developed around his ideas and has come to challenge the Keynesian orthodoxy as the dominant academic influence over monetary policy .
23 However , over this period there has been a substantial improvement in late age ( i.e. 65 + ) mortality in Britain ( Table 3.6 ) .
24 However , mortality from lung cancer increased significantly over this period .
25 The specification will need to be satisfactory over this period with only limited opportunities for a change of policy until the contract finishes .
26 Over this period , Italy expanded its output of machinery by two-thirds , Germany by over a half and the French by a tenth .
27 The employers did however wish to keep the door open for the future , and proposed a ban of five years on women entrants — something which the union was prepared to accept in the hope that " natural reductions " over this period would leave the men in a commanding position .
28 Er certainly within package holiday companies itself , competition was intense during this period and price being the major factor in determinants of demand , all the tour operators try to keep price down to a minimum and over this period you would find the average price for a package holiday would barely have changed one year to the next .
29 The first point to note is that aIthough the service sector overall has expanded , some service industries have actually lost jobs over this period .
30 Social and economic relations were modified in a whole range of ways over this period , some of them to the advantage of the working class .
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