Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] over a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Occupational , family and residential histories over a twenty-year period will elucidate and Aberdonians ' relationship to and experience of the oil industry across generations . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These workers reported the effects of various potencies of silver nitrate ( Argentum nitricum ) on the growth of wheat seedlings which gave reproducible results over an experimental period of about a year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These young people will be surveyed by mailed questionnaire on three separate occasions over a two-year period , commencing in spring 1987 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A case reports and clinical-epidemiological studies have evaluated the cancer risk in patients who have abused anthranoid laxatives over a long period . |
| 9 | A case report and clinical-epidemiological studies in patients who have misused anthranoid laxatives over a long period should be considered in a final risk assessment for colorectal cancer in man . |
| 10 | For instance it buys up stock which is nearing its redemption date , so as not to have to make large repayments over a short period of time . |
| 11 | Intended to support economic reforms over a 10-month period , the credit would be issued in four tranches . |
| 12 | For example , the ceiling for relief could be reduced from £30,000 to zero in ten equal steps over a ten-year period of time . |
| 13 | Both sides would further cut stocks to " a very small fraction " of current arsenals over an eight-year period once a worldwide ban ( currently under negotiation at the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva — see p. 37224 ) on the development , production , use and possession of chemical weapons had entered into force . |
| 14 | Batteries last longer if they are charged and discharged in deep cycles over a long period . |
| 15 | At a summit meeting in June US President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev formally confirmed that a START treaty , which they expected to be completed by the end of 1990 , would be based on a 30 per cent overall cut in long-range nuclear missiles over a seven-year period . |
| 16 | They mainly worked on the final phase of a mapping and mineral exploration programme on the island of Santa Isabel , in which four BGS geologists have worked at various times over a six-year period . |
| 17 | Talks on the possible sale of Iraqi oil worth US$1,600 million for humanitarian purposes over a six-month period [ see pp. 38406 ; 38452 ; 38548 ] were held in Vienna between Iraqi and UN officials on Jan. 8-10 . |
| 18 | Thorsen , the 51-year-old managing director of Scansiris , is charged with fraudulently preparing falsely inflated invoices over a ten-year period up to 1991 . |
| 19 | However , a syndrome of this severity is not commonly reported in foals under natural conditions , probably because larval intake is continuous during grazing ; it has been show experimentally that foals may tolerate large numbers of larvae administered in small doses over a long period . |
| 20 | The contract consisted of a set of mutual commitments tied to precise targets over a three-year period . |
| 21 | Changing the law to place NationalPower and Power-Gen under a legal obligation to agree fixed contracts for specified tonnages over a longer period than the current year was hinted at by Michael Heseltine , the President of the Board of Trade , in evidence to the energy select committee last year . |
| 22 | Perhaps the observation of particular teachers over a prolonged period combined with the charting of individual pupils ' learning experiences — including visits to the library — and the ways in which they did or did not use project-purchased resources would achieve this end , but there are clearly practical and methodological objections to such activities . |
| 23 | An initial structured interview will be followed by three semi-structured interviews over a six-month period . |
| 24 | The defence department predicted that the domestic changes would result in the loss of 57,000 civilian and 24,000 military jobs over a six-year period . |
| 25 | Cook has incidentally been given a testimonial season by Transvaal for his outstanding services over a long period . |
| 26 | There are two key measures : ( 1 ) the incidence rate ( the number of new cases over a given period , usually a year ) and ( 2 ) the prevalence rate ( the number of cases/persons affected in the population at a particular moment in time ) . |
| 27 | In February the USA and the Soviet Union reached a preliminary agreement to phase out chemical weapons over a 10-year period [ see p. 37267 ] . |
| 28 | This was partly due to certain features of record-keeping practice , but more particularly there were simply insufficient relevant referrals over a reasonable period . |
| 29 | The incubation period may be up to one year , and this makes it difficult in many cases to decide from whom the warts have been caught ; not only that , but they often seem to have been seeded on the principle adhered to by market gardeners , to give successive crops over a long period . |
| 30 | The party considered that a building programme of 11 000 new dwellings over a 5-year period was required of which 3000 were needed to deal with slum clearance , 2000 to clear the priority waiting lists and a further 6000 for general waiting list applications . |