Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] over a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sickness absence records of 9072 participants ( 88% of the total sample ) were examined over a mean period of 20 ( range 0.3–39.6 ) months . |
| 2 | THE essays included in the collection Women , Art and Power were written over a twenty-year period . |
| 3 | In order to quantify relevant costs , it identified a number of cost categories , for which costs were collected over a ten-month period . |
| 4 | In a study I undertook , five clients from each of five surgeries , a total of 25 , were studied over a six-month period . |
| 5 | Brussels Cathedral ( 490 ) was built over a long period . |
| 6 | This was built over a long period — both Peter Parler and Rejsek worked on it . |
| 7 | A Face of War was shot over a 97-day period , and portrays the experiences of Mike Company , 3rd Battalion , 7th Marine Regiment ; during this period Jones was wounded twice and one of his photographers once . |
| 8 | Improvement was maintained over a follow-up period of six months . |
| 9 | Schedule 13 , para 7(i) , Local Government Act 1972 required that where expenditure was defrayed by borrowing , a sum equivalent to an instalment of principal and interest was debited to the relevant operating statement so that the loan was repaid over a specified period of years . |