Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the damage occurred over a period of time , there is no cover . |
| 2 | This recommendation ushered in a period of campaigning for and against the change . |
| 3 | Further heated correspondence followed over a period of months , illustrating that strong views were held on both sides and that the time for agreement had not arrived . |
| 4 | A loan is a sum of money borrowed over a period of time at a certain rate of interest . |
| 5 | Out of a total of seventeen boys from this group interviewed over a period of one year , no fewer than ten had been in trouble with the police for offences not connected with activities at football matches . |
| 6 | In several instances , the parents gradually became aware that something was ‘ wrong ’ : the user 's physical appearance deteriorated over a period of time ; household and personal items were unexplainedly missing from the home ; the user began borrowing heavily and often from parents and siblings . |
| 7 | The fact is that urban Britain faced not a period of standstill but of dramatic growth and reordering . |
| 8 | The iconography of a state 's coinage viewed over a period of time can reveal a certain amount of information about the aspirations of that state , since the choice of designs will normally reflect the matters considered important by at least an influential body in that state and will present these important matters in a particular way . |
| 9 | Although occasionally Nizan 's assessment of a writer fluctuated over a period of time ( Gide , Giono , Mauriac ) , although on occasions Nizan was simultaneously attracted and repelled by individual writers ( Mauriac , Drieu la Rochelle , Celine ) , the bottom line was always a clear differentiation between a progressive and a reactionary attitude to culture . |
| 10 | The parricide committed by human beings occurred over a period of perhaps thousands of years , and was repeated innumerable times all over the globe , for it was the primal horde that marked humanity off from nature , and began the social , historical and cultural evolution of man . |
| 11 | Meryl accompanied her feeble joke with a grimace , then stared as his face blanched over a period of seconds , and his fork hovered aimlessly between plate and mouth . |