Example sentences of "[adv] over [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The tax will be phased in over a three-year period from July 1994 .
2 Bush did not indicate how the changes , which were to be phased in over a five-year period at a cost of up to $100,000 million , would be financed .
3 This level of pay was never conceived of as being a realizable objective for a statutory minimum wage that would be brought in over a short period of time .
4 Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time .
5 Observers suggested that a programme of negotiated , " rolling reforms " would now ensue , probably over a considerable period of time , and that de Klerk would face strong opposition from some elements of the white electorate who sought to maintain protected political rights for the white minority .
6 There are , however , instances where fixed term contracts are renewed automatically over a considerable period of time and can reasonably be described as ‘ rolling ’ contracts .
7 In the south-east , it shot up over the same period from 4 to 9.7pc .
8 The duty , which was to have been phased out over a nine-month period to March 1991 , was dismissed as ineffective because shoppers would be able to circumvent it by buying in the West after July 1 .
9 The counterfeit cheques , for sums between £20 and £60 , were made out over a five-month period from March last year .
10 The light waves emitted from the surface of the star between 10:59:59 and 11:00 , by the astronaut 's watch , would be spread out over an infinite period of time , as seen from the spaceship .
11 For the same reason solidification of an appreciable fraction of the mantle can also be ruled out over the same period of history .
12 In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time .
13 Irrespective of wh what 's gone on over the whole period of the trial .
14 Duncan Smith , defending , said : ‘ It appeared to be a fairly well laid out scheme which was used successfully over a considerable period of time .
15 For the concession of hereditary tenure , though made piecemeal over a long period of time , was universal by the end of the century .
16 Salesmen who underperformed even over a short period at the futures bucket shops , were put on " terminal ! "
17 ‘ But poisons that would only kill if taken regularly over a long period of time , do they exist ? ’
18 Conversely , some econometricians have argued that it is more cost effective to use a ‘ drip ’ system , advertising more or less continuously over a long period at a very low weight .
19 Having risen strongly over the post-war period until that year , growth stopped ; there have been major fluctuations since , but the total has never been so high again .
20 Much research and attention to artists ' requirements has led to a new breed of synthetic brushes which are highly appropriate for use with acrylics , among other uses , which hold their shape well over a long period of time , are delightfully responsive to use , are superbly controllable , allowing precision work , and are durable enough to resist occasional misuse .
21 I have known you well over a long period of time .
22 In clinical case management there is a recognition that the worker is an important resource , and an awareness that the process of assessment and reassessment is a crucial function , to be discharged by someone who knows the client really well over a long period of time .
23 Erm in connection with erm with reference to the York area housing strategy , again , there is a simple explanation , in that that that document was prepared before the current work on the City of York draft local plan , had progressed to a stage at which members had considered housing sites , and a number of sites in City Council ownership erm within the city , covering some four hundred dwellings have now been agreed by the City Council members as coming forward over the planned period for affordable housing , and in the case of two of those sites it actually requires sites to be taken out of use as public car parks , to bring them forward for development , and that is why the eleven hundred figure is actually reduced now to a seven hundred .
24 People would not welcome a move from their home and if closure went ahead over a long period of time staff would inevitably leave .
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