Example sentences of "[verb] over [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a start , it allows spreading to be carried over a longer period during the winter months ( Table 1 ) . |
| 2 | In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops . |
| 3 | Seen over the whole period from 1960 to 1989 the human family has been becoming significantly healthier . |
| 4 | It had been tracked over a three-year period by satellite and radio beacon and its movements have demonstrated that four separate currents affect the region of Antarctica near the Ross Ice shelf . |
| 5 | The number claiming SB has risen over the same period from three million to just under five million ( figures from CPAG ) . |
| 6 | While male activity rates have fallen steadily from 58.1 per cent in 1970 to 55.6 per cent in 1986 , female activity rates have risen over the same period from 26.6 per cent to 32.5 per cent . |
| 7 | Signatories of GATT could institute tariff changes which might discriminate against third parties only if done over a long period of time , so giving those third parties the opportunities of adjusting to the change without suffering severe economic disruption . |
| 8 | In this type of study , trend values of consumption and income are collected over a long period of time so that most cyclical fluctuations are smoothed out . |
| 9 | We should only consider such cases where there is clear evidence of extreme weather and abnormal falls of snow having occurred over a short period of time . |
| 10 | One other study , in which a group of 341 epidemiologists had H pylori antibody state assessed over a mean period of 8.5 years , also showed a low rate of serovonversion to a positive antibody state over time , ( 0.49% per person year ) . |
| 11 | A further 147,000 vehicles which can not be converted will have to be replaced over the same period by new ones equipped with catalytic converters . |
| 12 | Because intensive subject assessment is concentrated over a short period of time , many felt that disruption of staff and students was less , in the long run , than under the normal system . |
| 13 | Figure 18.4 shows , by means of five-year moving averages of deaths per million in England and Wales , how the disease has behaved over a long period in relation to other serious illnesses . |
| 14 | The total number of pieces of gum used in the first day should be gradually reduced over a subsequent period of ten days . |
| 15 | This sum was to be financed over the 15-month period to the extent of 7.14 per cent from the general budget , 53.7 per cent from non-repayable aid , and the balance of 39.16 per cent from borrowing . |
| 16 | It should be noted that these projections do not reflect any benefits that may accrue to the Group following a transfer of ownership and have been prepared under the assumption that the Group 's current operating conditions will apply over the whole period under review ’ . |
| 17 | Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate . |
| 18 | Egyptian ideas about the creation of the world developed over a considerable period of time . |
| 19 | Also , employers are constantly employing new staff so the return on selection has to be calculated over a longer period of time to get a true picture of the effects of selection methods . |
| 20 | Sickness absence records of 9072 participants ( 88% of the total sample ) were examined over a mean period of 20 ( range 0.3–39.6 ) months . |
| 21 | Insider dealing in this respect is controlled by restricting the number of traders who have access to information , a technique which they believe is easier than trying to control how much information is announced over a given period of time . |
| 22 | The result was that the proportion of the population over the age at which state pensions can now be drawn ( 65 years for men and 60 for women ) , increased over the eighty-year period from about one in twenty ( 5 per cent ) to over one in six ( about 18 per cent ) . |
| 23 | An additional incentive is that a garden , in contrast to its associated historic building , does not always need substantial sums for major fabric repairs at the outset and can be revived over a longer period of time . |
| 24 | What each of us does over a long period of trial and error is to acquire a set of tools with which we are comfortable and which we can apply in different ways to the myriad problems which we need to solve . |
| 25 | Under the agreement , government and parastatal loans were to be repaid over a 20-year period with a three-year grace period , while commercial debts would become payable over 15 years with an eight-year grace period . |
| 26 | Schedule 13 , para 7(i) , Local Government Act 1972 required that where expenditure was defrayed by borrowing , a sum equivalent to an instalment of principal and interest was debited to the relevant operating statement so that the loan was repaid over a specified period of years . |
| 27 | Complex adaptations have developed because in certain circumstances the same selection pressure has been maintained over a long period of time . |
| 28 | Improvement was maintained over a follow-up period of six months . |
| 29 | Besides , the variations in the pattern and emphasis of such courses seem to have grown up largely pragmatically , as a function of the organizational ‘ discretion ’ that both institutions and academics have in responding to the needs , pressures and priorities they have perceived over a long period of time . |
| 30 | But what I am saying in context , no this has a deal to do with the co boundaries , as you know erm the honourable member well knows , the essence of this this is wholly inappropriate in terms of erm trying to latest citizenship through an arrangement of six additional boundaries into a erm union and a political state and I think that that is the profound objection that this side of the house has expressed over a long period of time now , is a reflection of the public mood in the country in respect of this election and the way the boundaries er are are erm apportioned and all I say in conclusion is that this is an evidence further of the irrelevance of this house in reflecting and attesting to public opinion outside . |