Example sentences of "[adv prt] over [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tax will be phased in over a three-year period from July 1994 . |
| 2 | Bush did not indicate how the changes , which were to be phased in over a five-year period at a cost of up to $100,000 million , would be financed . |
| 3 | This level of pay was never conceived of as being a realizable objective for a statutory minimum wage that would be brought in over a short period of time . |
| 4 | In the south-east , it shot up over the same period from 4 to 9.7pc . |
| 5 | The duty , which was to have been phased out over a nine-month period to March 1991 , was dismissed as ineffective because shoppers would be able to circumvent it by buying in the West after July 1 . |
| 6 | The counterfeit cheques , for sums between £20 and £60 , were made out over a five-month period from March last year . |
| 7 | The light waves emitted from the surface of the star between 10:59:59 and 11:00 , by the astronaut 's watch , would be spread out over an infinite period of time , as seen from the spaceship . |
| 8 | For the same reason solidification of an appreciable fraction of the mantle can also be ruled out over the same period of history . |
| 9 | In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time . |
| 10 | Irrespective of wh what 's gone on over the whole period of the trial . |