Example sentences of "[noun pl] over [art] period [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The probes were connected to a portable recorder ( Digitrapper — Synectics Medical , Sweden ) capable of holding data from two channels over a period of 24 hours . |
| 2 | Davies v. Sumner is the leading authority on the meaning of the expression ‘ in the course of a business ’ and has been followed in a case under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , R. & B. Customs Brokers v. United Dominion Trust , where it was held that a business 's buying of two or three cars over a period of five years was an insufficient degree of regularity for the latest such purchase to be regarded as made in the course of the business ( see paragraph 10–18 above . ) |
| 3 | But then , there can be no difference between producing x units over a period at one site and unc units for half the period at that site followed by unc at another site for the rest of the period . |
| 4 | For example , it is clear from work with an English- and Punjabi-speaking family in Newcastle upon Tyne , where a young white woman carried out modified participant observation sessions over a period of several months , that no male , regardless of age or ethnicity , would be allowed into the house ( Scothern 1985 ) . |
| 5 | The Manor was an important landmark during the annual and ancient custom called the ‘ perambulation of Purton ’ , during Rogation Tide in May , when a large procession , headed by the clergyman , would beat the bounds over a period of two days . |
| 6 | The Medical Correspondent of the UK Sunday Times reported in May 1990 that the anti-oestrogen drug , tamoxifen , used for several years to treat women actually suffering from breast-cancer , is now to be tested on 30,000 human subjects over a period of five years to assess its potential as a preventative of the disease in healthy women . |
| 7 | The results of these labours over a period of fifty years were many papers and five influential books , the last two of which were completed by his son . |
| 8 | Thus it has been held that there was a course of dealing where the parties contracted three or four times per month for three years ( Kendall v Lillico ) and where there had been 81 transactions over a period of six years ( SIAT di del Ferro v Tradax Overseas SA [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 470 ) , but not where there had been only three or four contracts over a five-year period ( Hollier v Rambler Motors ( AMC ) Ltd [ 1972 ] 2 QB 71 ; in addition the alleged course of dealing was not consistent ) . |
| 9 | Of course , one of the main difficulties in this kind of research lies in the collection of accurate information about events and experiences over a period of twenty years or more . |
| 10 | ‘ A prisoner , who it was alleged had recently been refused Compassionate Home Leave to visit a dangerously ill relative , had already been allowed three visits over a period of three weeks . |
| 11 | Hanson has been built up into one of Britain 's leading companies over a period of twenty years based on an acquisition philosophy which involves a reduction in the acquired company 's bureaucracy , devolution of responsibility to local managers , a tight control of capital expenditure and a disposal of some of the peripheral assets which are not part of the company 's ‘ core activities ’ . |
| 12 | In addition , garage C was subject to a mortgage whereby the appellants advanced , under a loan agreement , £7,000 to the respondents who covenanted to repay it by instalments over a period of 21 years . |
| 13 | She had lost 8 inches off her waist and a staggering 10 inches off her hips over a period of seven months . |
| 14 | Tower Hamlets , acting under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act of 1967 , required Chetnik to pay rates on the buildings over a period of some years during which they were unoccupied because tenants could not be found . |
| 15 | Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years . |
| 16 | They were largely concerned with population and household predictions over the period to 1981 and the possibilities that existed for redistribution . |
| 17 | In it he described a succession of his dreams over a period of thirty years , which seemed to show glimpses of the future , and provided a theory of time to account for them . |
| 18 | The percentage growth in both sales and group profits over the period from 1985 are impressive but its objectives to the end of this decade and half way through the next are even more so , especially since a clear and detailed strategy for its achievement is firmly in place . |
| 19 | Minns brought a broad range of expertise to bear on a field extending from eastern Europe to China , while at the same time paying close attention to the antiquities and books of his own college , where he occupied the same rooms over a period of fifty-five years as undergraduate , fellow , president ( 1928–49 ) , and senior fellow . |
| 20 | The partnership agreement sought to restrain outgoing partners over a period of five years from acting as a solicitor , notary , trade mark or patent agent or in any similar capacity in the Colony of Hong Kong whether as principal , clerk or assistant for any person , firm or company who was at the time of his ceasing to be a partner or had during the period of three years prior thereto been a client of the partnership … |
| 21 | Last week a British psychiatrist was convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting patients over a period of 12 years . |
| 22 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 23 | The respondents agreed to buy a van on the basis that the price could be paid " on hire purchase terms over a period of two years " . |
| 24 | Ian Wyllie , who studied cuckoos extensively in Cambridgeshire reed-beds , saw it just three times over a period of six years after thousands of hours of observation . |
| 25 | The bottles are designed to be reused up to 20 times over a period of five years before being recycled into filling for toys , anoraks and duvets . |
| 26 | The same effect can be obtained by filling the pool with water and emptying it several times over a period of two or three weeks . |
| 27 | However , this appears to be inconsistent with other cases ( see Victoria Fur Traders Ltd v Roadline ( UK ) Ltd [ 1981 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 570 where the plaintiffs had received air waybills over a period of 25 years and never read the terms on them ) and it seems clear that constructive notice of the terms will suffice . |
| 28 | On March 12 , 1990 , during a visit to Chile by the Spanish Prime Minister , Felipe González , an agreement was signed under which Spain granted a total of 220,000 million ptas ( approximately US$2,006 million ) , of which 88,000 million ptas were in soft credits under market conditions and the remainder constituted investments over the period to 1993 . |
| 29 | In a less ambitious sleep-reduction study , three pairs of subjects systematically reduced their sleep from 8 to 6 hours over a period of six weeks . |
| 30 | Barclays Bank would not divulge its figures despite repeated requests over a period of three weeks . |