Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] over a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead that sense has to be nurtured by more direct experience over a long period of time . |
| 2 | Typically , individual therapy involves 12–20 sessions of 45–60 minutes over a three-month period . |
| 3 | According to a spokeswoman for the Fraud Squad , he is alleged to have stolen more than £130,000 from the Inland Revenue over a four-year period . |
| 4 | By adding these potatoes , a bulky food of reasonably high-fibre content , they actually lost some weight over a three-month period ! |
| 5 | Having a naturally restrained appetite , which probably means that you are only a few pounds overweight and have gained this weight over a lengthy period . |
| 6 | According to government estimates , the Soufriere geothermal project could potentially provide electricity for around a quarter of the island 's population and saved about US$250 million in foreign exchange over a 30-year period . |
| 7 | We want to research whether this campaign over a short period of time can improve this situation . ’ |
| 8 | The explanation is that , given a totally unvarying diet over a long period of time , especially if it is from kittenhood right through into adult life , a cat 's ‘ food variety mechanism ’ gets worn down and is finally switched off altogether . |
| 9 | His untiring efforts over a 27-year period include developing services for the mentally handicapped in Cleveland , including setting up a joint unit of Venture Scouts and Ranger Guides . |
| 10 | In this case , the researcher asks the subjects of the research to keep a detailed diary over a given period . |
| 11 | But it is encapsulated in the phrase that she was subjected to sadistic behaviour over a lengthy period of time which she accepted because she was in love with him . |
| 12 | Occupational , family and residential histories over a twenty-year period will elucidate and Aberdonians ' relationship to and experience of the oil industry across generations . |
| 13 | He went on ‘ improving ’ this poem over a long period of years so that the text usually printed shows many alterations from the original . |
| 14 | WAQAR YOUNIS 'S county Surrey have been fined £1,000 for repeated ball-tampering over a three-year period . |
| 15 | Wright and West , in a study of all incidents recorded by the police as genuine rapes or attempted rapes in six English counties over a five-year period from 1972 to 1976 , found that of a total of 297 cases , fellatio was attempted or demanded in 30 incidents , cunnilingus in 13 , buggery in 12 and other sexual acts usually involving masturbation in 35 . |
| 16 | It arises from a combination of factors e.g. dampness and absence of adequate ventilation over a significant period of time . |
| 17 | themselves admit that ‘ a definitive answer to the question of job techniques and job autonomy could be provided only by systematic and direct observation over a prolonged period of time ’ . |
| 18 | Some families require extensive help over a prolonged period to overcome long-standing emotional problems in the family which have culminated in a child who is failing to thrive or is obese . |
| 19 | A quick glance at the seven-layer decision-making ladder of the OSI , makes plain the potential for querulous technical in-fighting over a near-interminable period . |
| 20 | According to market researchers the Gartner Group , it costs a company an astonishing £19,500 or so to run a single personal computer over a five-year period . |
| 21 | This is bond paying a regular ( usually semi-annual ) , fixed coupon over a fixed period to maturity or redemption , with the return of principal ( i.e. the par or nominal value of the bond ) on the maturity date . |
| 22 | Eric and Marie Hanby , aged 60 and 61 , were acquitted on 11 charges of cruelly ill-treating children over a 24-year period , 1967–1991 . |
| 23 | These young people will be surveyed by mailed questionnaire on three separate occasions over a two-year period , commencing in spring 1987 . |
| 24 | Those few casual workers in the catering industry who do seem to work on a more or less continuous , almost full-time basis over a long period for a single organisation ( the plaintiffs in the oft-cited " O'Kelly case " ) , tend to possess skills which that organisation , and indeed other potential employers , value . |
| 25 | Thus you will already be aerobically fit , that is able to sustain a relatively low work-load over a long period . |
| 26 | Ask the manager to give you the sales figures for that product over a six-month period , and then find out what the expected sales are for the coming year . |
| 27 | The results they obtained suggested a close relationship between changes in the United States ' money supply and changes in money national income over a long period of time . |
| 28 | The other major case , which later separated into two , involved the murders of two boys aged 14 and 6 , which obtained fairly intensive coverage over a five-day period in the popular dailies . |
| 29 | A study was carried out in a Bedfordshire village , i.e. a semi-rural environment , of predation by domestic cats over a one-year period and the results were published in a zoological journal in 1987 . |
| 30 | A case reports and clinical-epidemiological studies have evaluated the cancer risk in patients who have abused anthranoid laxatives over a long period . |