Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] over a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Woodrow , it was held that affray is a continuing offence , so that where an indictment charged the defendants with a single offence and particularised several incidents that had occurred at different places and over a period of several hours , the indictment was not bad for duplicity . |
| 2 | The third type requires such intervention but over a period of years , usually nearly into adolescence , and often there is never complete resolution . |
| 3 | According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies . |
| 4 | This may be in a particular meeting or over a period of time . |
| 5 | This stage is followed by a search for means to implement the desired change and over a period of time a cycle of problems are handled by this method . |