Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] over a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 2 | Barclays Bank would not divulge its figures despite repeated requests over a period of three weeks . |
| 3 | He said it would change and tone a man in three five-minute sessions over a period of a week . |
| 4 | People have made wonderful toys in a lot of different places over a period of time . |
| 5 | Through the creation and use of databases in a number of different contexts over a period of time , pupils develop an awareness of the microcomputer as an information handling tool rather than a games machine or programming instrument , while , at the same time , developing valuable learning skills . |
| 6 | It ran for four separate days over a period of weeks , followed by an exam when all managed to pass . |
| 7 | Figure 8 is an example of such a study which recorded and classified accidents over a period of time . |
| 8 | What you should look for is evidence of good , consistent results over a period of 10 to 20 years . |
| 9 | The Medical Correspondent of the UK Sunday Times reported in May 1990 that the anti-oestrogen drug , tamoxifen , used for several years to treat women actually suffering from breast-cancer , is now to be tested on 30,000 human subjects over a period of five years to assess its potential as a preventative of the disease in healthy women . |
| 10 | Hanson has been built up into one of Britain 's leading companies over a period of twenty years based on an acquisition philosophy which involves a reduction in the acquired company 's bureaucracy , devolution of responsibility to local managers , a tight control of capital expenditure and a disposal of some of the peripheral assets which are not part of the company 's ‘ core activities ’ . |
| 11 | But the main idea in the Green Paper was to replace domestic rates over a period of years by a community charge . |
| 12 | Any body left in this room will be digested by fungal enzymes over a period of D4+1 days , depending on size , and organic equipment left here — leather , sacking , cloth , etc. — will likewise be digested in 24 hours . |
| 13 | The usual procedure is for a sample , which is then referred to as the ‘ panel ’ , to be selected in the usual way , as described on pp. 35–9 above , and for data about this sample to be collected at regular intervals over a period of years . |
| 14 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 15 | MacDonald claims that the only located source of systematic collection of data on the progress of non-traditional students over a period of years was at Glasgow Polytechnic for the BA Social Science course . |
| 16 | The organisers will urge participants , who will represent the 11 provinces of Zaire , to arrange similar seminars in their respective areas over a period of time . |
| 17 | The aim of this observation was to study the changes , if any , in the role and content of girls comic papers over a period of ten years . |
| 18 | While this study is limited to one university and deals with a relatively small intake of mature students over a period of six years it does demonstrate that non-standard entry mature students can do particularly well when compared with other students . |
| 19 | For this reason production cooperatives must be encouraged to grow from small beginnings over a period of time with sensitive support . |
| 20 | The partnership agreement sought to restrain outgoing partners over a period of five years from acting as a solicitor , notary , trade mark or patent agent or in any similar capacity in the Colony of Hong Kong whether as principal , clerk or assistant for any person , firm or company who was at the time of his ceasing to be a partner or had during the period of three years prior thereto been a client of the partnership … |
| 21 | At the Elysee , a spokesman said there could be ‘ modulations ’ in presidential commitments over a period of years , and indicated that the president could take Fabius 's advice in the area of research spending . |
| 22 | I have tested literally hundreds of children on conservation tasks over a period of twenty years and have confirmed ( to my own satisfaction at least ) that fundamentally — in terms of the central systems — one does not succeed in drawing their attention to non-salient features . |
| 23 | E-selectin is up regulated on endothelial cells over a period of hours after stimulation by inflammatory mediators . |
| 24 | A common application of this is the sale and purchase of successive adjacent plots over a period of time . |
| 25 | In the case of bulk packages from which the product is likely to be removed in successive quantities over a period of time , separate tests should be carried out to assess the effect of storage in partly filled containers . |
| 26 | Finally , ‘ higher doctorates ’ ( such as DSc , DLitt , DD ) are awarded for distinguished contribution to an academic field , actually on the basis of books or other publications over a period of years . |