Example sentences of "over a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a period of time they will all be ill . |
| 2 | What if I wish to give small amounts regularly over a period ? |
| 3 | Altogether , tutorials take place over a period of about twenty-four weeks in the last year of a course , and usually by the last twelve tutorials a student has a much clearer idea of what he or she is about . |
| 4 | Doing it manually , it had to be done over a period of two or three days , fitting it in after work . ’ |
| 5 | With reference to the article in June on breaking dormancy in sweet peas : experiments conducted over a period of several years at New College , Pontefract certainly seem to bear out Anne Swithinbank 's remarks . |
| 6 | The second type of endurance training uses nearly flat-out effort over a period of up to three minutes . |
| 7 | I have tested literally hundreds of children on conservation tasks over a period of twenty years and have confirmed ( to my own satisfaction at least ) that fundamentally — in terms of the central systems — one does not succeed in drawing their attention to non-salient features . |
| 8 | He said it would change and tone a man in three five-minute sessions over a period of a week . |
| 9 | ‘ Travelling on the train to and from Folkestone and London over a period of months I knitted a bright pink jumper . |
| 10 | The fruit trees would be moved in stages , over a period of years . |
| 11 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 12 | For reasons which never seem quite convincing , given the tediousness of the material and the fact that the three do not even believe in it , this becomes an obsessive hobby over a period of years . |
| 13 | In particular Ramsey helped the Anglo-Catholic members of the Conference to take a more friendly attitude to the South India Church , which united a Church with bishops to Churches without bishops in a unified structure over a period of years . |
| 14 | The employers acknowledged that if over a period profits should rise more than incomes , the balance should be redressed by taxation policy . |
| 15 | Better try something else , then ; and here it is , in the shape of the third proposition : ‘ if over a period profits should rise more than incomes , the balance should be redressed by taxation policy ’ . |
| 16 | I leave entirely on one side all the difficult questions which are concealed by that little phrase ‘ over a period ’ . |
| 17 | And gradually , over a period of about nine months , she began to lose the use of her eyes . |
| 18 | After the grubs have eaten extensive ‘ galleries ’ in the wood over a period of years , with the resultant dust being emitted in bun-shaped pellets , the larva enters a pupal stage lasting three to six weeks and emerges as a fully grown beetle . |
| 19 | Over a period of three weeks they were shunted back and forth between Germany , London and Cairo until the Home Office granted them temporary admission . |
| 20 | They are the inevitable result of her stand in advocating bourgeois liberalisation over a period of time . ’ |
| 21 | The cumulative loan would be repaid through a private agency , the Student Loans Company , over a period of , say , 10 years . |
| 22 | The Manor was an important landmark during the annual and ancient custom called the ‘ perambulation of Purton ’ , during Rogation Tide in May , when a large procession , headed by the clergyman , would beat the bounds over a period of two days . |
| 23 | The rebuilding of the old manor took place over a period of about five years and was probably finished in about 1727 . |
| 24 | It was not surprising that the amount spent on exploration sank from $760 million in the still relatively fat year of 1979 to between $120 and $150 million at the end of the 1980s and the size of known reserves remained static over a period of at least four years . |
| 25 | The classic dish may require preparation over a period of two days , but this simple variation is much quicker . |
| 26 | Perhaps over a period of months , even years , the yearning grew to escape . |
| 27 | Differing slightly from Ibrams are the many cases where ‘ cumulative provocation ’ has been directed towards D over a period of time , and then some minor act sparks off the loss of self-control and killing . |
| 28 | Over a period of 18 months , Cox had found it increasingly difficult to front the cost of her supplies . |
| 29 | The system was developed over a period of about 10 years and arrived on the market in three stages . |
| 30 | But setting aside those factors , the overall running costs of injection do begin to come close to those of conventional spreading , over a period of time . |