Example sentences of "[adj] over a period [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington . |
| 2 | Later , the project was able to borrow a more advanced flux-gate magnetometer and the preliminary conclusions from Rodney Hale , an experienced electronics engineer , as a result of further work , are that there is a magnetic field within the circle which fluctuates relative to that outside over a period of hours . |
| 3 | But drinking too much over a period of months or years damages far more than the nervous system . |
| 4 | If you are unsuccessful over a period of time there 's always a chance you will part company . ’ |
| 5 | The cause of deterioration is mainly due to the covering becoming thin and brittle because of weathering i.e. the action of heat and cold over a period of time . |
| 6 | The position of the Central Authority was strong : they were responsible for the Boards as a whole breaking-even over a period of years ; their approval was required for capital and current expenditure ; and they raised the capital and controlled the reserves and bank-balances of the Boards . |
| 7 | By using examples taken at random over a period of years the following list has been assembled : |
| 8 | We may explain the fact that the production units of a particular industry have grown larger over a period of time by appealing to the economies this yields , and in doing so claim that a cause ( increase in scale ) occurred because of its propensity to have a certain effect ( economies of scale ) . |
| 9 | You can work out that over a period of time you would have somewhere in the region of fifteen assignments during the year guaranteed . |
| 10 | salesman 's gon na do that over a period of time . |
| 11 | The appearance of the new form was an abrupt event and the product was quite stable over a period of years . |
| 12 | Mr Elliot Bernerd , head of Chesfield commented , ‘ We are one of a group of shareholders and have never agreed to make capital available over a period of years . |
| 13 | The European Community has put in place a range of measures which are capable over a period of time of leading to a solution . |
| 14 | The main provisions of the existing Acts covering health and safety , and regulations made under them , will be retained but will be amended , revised or repealed as necessary over a period of years . |
| 15 | When established during the 1940s , nationalised industries were instructed to operate in the ‘ public interest ’ and to break even over a period of years . |