Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] over [art] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a treat for her large staff , who had been so assiduous over the period of moving in , Amy encouraged them to go . |
| 2 | You can work out that over a period of time you would have somewhere in the region of fifteen assignments during the year guaranteed . |
| 3 | Student registrations on the course by mode show a small increase in both sandwich and part-time modes which , interestingly , has been matched by a corresponding decrease in such registrations elsewhere in the Polytechnic so that institutional figures are roughly stable over the period from 1982–87 . |
| 4 | The appearance of the new form was an abrupt event and the product was quite stable over a period of years . |
| 5 | But drinking too much over a period of months or years damages far more than the nervous system . |