Example sentences of "[adj] over a period [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loans would be repayable over a period of 20 years at 3.5 per cent interest . |
| 2 | This proved difficult and Josef Vissarionovich had to be blown up little by little over a period of two weeks . |
| 3 | The definitive work on sleep norms at different ages is by Robert Williams , Ismet Karacan and Carolyn Hursch from the Florida Sleep Laboratory who recorded the normal sleep patterns of over 200 subjects between three and seventy years of age and older over a period of fifteen years . |
| 4 | Scenting the strength of Coleby 's desire for the knife , he had beaten him up from two shillings to ten over a period of three days . |
| 5 | Resolution 706 dealt with a partial export resumption , up to a total value of $1.6 billion over a period of six months , to enable Baghdad to import medical supplies and foodstuffs . |
| 6 | Many players , as it happened , were coming near to the age of retirement , so it was possible over a period of six or seven years to make the orchestra young again . |
| 7 | Thus when endothelium was stripped from rabbit aorta in vivo prostacyclin production at the luminal surface of the vessel was virtually absent and recovery of prostacyclin production was slow over a period of 70 days coinciding with the appearance of neointimal cells ( Eldor et al , 1981 ) . |