Example sentences of "[noun pl] over a period [prep] week " in BNC.

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1 The practical effect of this wording is that for a claim to be covered the casualty must be reasonably attributable to an identifiable accident the source of which is external to the craft — thus the craft filling with water on its moorings over a period of weeks and then foundering would not be covered .
2 It ran for four separate days over a period of weeks , followed by an exam when all managed to pass .
3 Since females in these species become available to males over a period of weeks or months , the possibility exists for some males to mate with several females during the course of a breeding season .
4 It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity .
5 Storage space had to be found for this unusually large collection of books which arrived in batches over a period of weeks .
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