Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] over [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be recommended that independent psychiatric or psychological assessment is made or that the sufferer is admitted for prolonged assessment over a period of time ( ten days or so ) in daily contact with the group of patients already in treatment . |
| 2 | In this thesis he describes a meticulous dietary study over a period of several years at the Juliana Children 's Hospital in a patient with coeliac disease , which started in 1936 ! |
| 3 | Roebuck , moved a famous and extremely detailed vote of censure on Palmerston 's foreign policy over a period of two decades , 2,000 – 3,000 volumes of manuscript correspondence were consulted by officials in the government 's attempt to produce a convincing rebuttal . |
| 4 | The gloomy trends of macro-economic indicators of economic growth , inflation , unemployment , and public spending over the period were in line with those for earlier governments . |
| 5 | This latter is a longitudinal survey over a period of two and a half years following a structured sample of some 4,000 persons who registered as unemployed in May 1980 . |
| 6 | British industry 's rates of growth were markedly below those of its European counterparts and as a result an absolute advantage was transformed into an absolute disadvantage over the period . |
| 7 | Like many earnest campaigns , the society raised moral indignation over a period of three years when a ‘ naked ’ papier mâché horse was put on display in a Manhattan airline office ; the horse was quickly removed and an apology was sent as speedily . |
| 8 | This guidance states that adjustments are appropriate ‘ … in order that a true and fair view is presented of profits stated on a consistent basis over the period covered by the report ’ |
| 9 | Second , there is no consistent pattern over the period covered by the table between , on the one hand , the level of supplementary benefit , and the proportion of ‘ eligible ’ strikers , i.e. those involved in strikes lasting for more than two weeks when supplementary benefit is normally payable . |
| 10 | These convertible issues are convertible into the underlying equity at a fixed rate over a period of years and usually on certain dates in each year . |
| 11 | It is impossible to judge on the basis of a single day , however , and you should be looking for a consistent improvement over a period of time . |
| 12 | The financial costs of various resources ( such as costs of physical resources and labour ) should be quantified and a statement of required expenditure over the period obtained . |
| 13 | While sales revenues dropped to IR£273.6 million ( 1991 : IR£292.1 million ) , overall volume substantially held up , a creditable performance in a year when most of the Group 's major markets were in recession Financing costs at IR£7.7 million ( 1991 : IR£6.5 million ) reflect higher average debt over the period The taxation charge at IR£2 million was lower than the previous year due to lower profits in high tax jurisdictions . |
| 14 | A number of very different trends were to be seen in a sample of frequencies on bus routes , ranging from consistent decline over the period since 1939 to slight increase in recent years on a few routes . |
| 15 | There has been a similar increase in the proportion of families headed by a never-married mother over the period ( 77% ) , arising from a growth in the proportion of births outside marriage as well as the growing trend for single mothers to bring up children by themselves . |
| 16 | When such Stakhanovite chastity over a period of months finally coaxed some forlorn gesture of affection from the girl , he told her he wanted to get to know her better . |
| 17 | The act was a considerable relaxation of earlier limitations and indeed , the progressive relaxation over the period seems to be as much a testimony to the improved load-bearing of the roads as an accommodation of the expanding volume of goods traffic . |
| 18 | The aim of the research is to arrive at an interdisciplinary understanding of particular cases by intensive study over a period of time , using both flexible interviews and questionnaires ; and by the incorporation of survey data and through theoretical interpretation to generalise to wider organisational and occupational areas . |
| 19 | Alternatively , negotiators may form a view about likely inflation over the period of the wage contract based on its recent past behaviour . |
| 20 | This study investigates the health of two substantial areas of basic science over the period 1960-85 , using various measures of health , such as citation analysis , publications , invited papers , peer esteem and migration patterns . |
| 21 | Firstly , there will be a cross-sectional approach , looking at a wide range of firms and markets ; and secondly , there swill be a time series approach , which will follow a firm 's involvement with a particular national market over a period of time . |
| 22 | In the standard account of the party 's growth into a modern political organisation over the period 1910–24 , McKibbin ( 1974 ) concludes that the war was not of first importance to its ultimate rise to power : |
| 23 | It also shows women are over-represented in education , languages and literature and music/drama/art/design , whereas men are over-represented in engineering and technology and science , and that this pattern has not changed a great deal over the period , despite attempts to even out the balance , and in particular to attract more women on to science and technology courses . |
| 24 | In a series of analyses , we vary the climate sensitivity and a scaling factor linking changes in solar cycle length to radiative forcing , and determine the best fit between annual modelled and observed global-mean ( land-plus-marine ) temperature by maximizing the explained variance over the period 1861–1985 ( following ref. 11 ) . |
| 25 | There is a spontaneous gradual recovery over a period of weeks or months and the protein concentration of spinal fluid becomes elevated . |
| 26 | In Boston " mentoring " programmes exist where employers release a staff member on a regular basis over a period of months to work with potential " drop outs " to win their commitment . |
| 27 | Where parties do business together on the same terms on a regular basis over a period of time , their trading may amount to a course of dealing . |
| 28 | She says you have to have evidence of continued use over a period of time and in a variety of sources so that it 's not just very specialised and short-lived . |
| 29 | A new volume is now being prepared to cover macroeconomic policy over the period 1974 to 1987 . |
| 30 | They are the inevitable result of her stand in advocating bourgeois liberalisation over a period of time . ’ |