Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] over a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have looked carefully over a period of weeks at those applications , and have reached the view that they deserve to be granted . |
| 2 | Bargaining is often carried out over a period of days , so it 's fortunate that a four- night B&B break at a three-star hotel near the market , is £219 in February and March . |
| 3 | The refurbishment scheme ‘ A Good Place to Live ’ will be carried out over a period of five years . |
| 4 | In the past , samples of children 's language have been collected using a diary approach where examples of children 's utterances , together with a description of the surrounding context , were simply written down over a period of weeks or months ( Miller 1981a ) . |
| 5 | In other cases , a partner 's contribution may be agreed to be collected in over a period of years out of his profit share . |
| 6 | Another proof is taken and so the print is built up over a period of time . |
| 7 | Strong and sometimes quite intense relationships with individuals are built up over a period of even a few weeks . |
| 8 | Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes . |
| 9 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 10 | The flow meter measurements tell the engineer how much water has moved where over a period of time . |
| 11 | Twenty , 50 or 100 mg were infused intravenously over a period of 90 minutes . |
| 12 | Any new planting was designed to be phased in over a period of years , planting schemes having to take account of the need to create a distinctive landscape for the immediate future as well as for the long term . |
| 13 | To test this particular application of Procedure Audit , a monitoring process was established in a section of thirty persons , and the administrative assistant briefed to record the number of queries referred back over a period of two months . |
| 14 | This will be cut back over a period of time . |
| 15 | It is clear that insubstantial changes will not give rise to a new copyright ( or right to prevent unfair extraction ) but what is the position when a database has changed considerably from its original form but this has happened incrementally over a period of time ? |
| 16 | You 've got ta put an offer in and pay it so much a month have n't you or something and , and , and get it paid off over a period of time ? |