Example sentences of "[adv prt] over a [adj] period " in BNC.

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1 Advisers say the change — aimed at meeting European Community moves towards equality for the sexes — should be phased in over a 15-year period .
2 The tax will be phased in over a three-year period from July 1994 .
3 Given that this reform will hit hardest those firms with most part-time workers , it is suggested that this change is phased in over a five-year period .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 This was carried out over a three-week period using a mixture of interviews and questionnaires covering a representative sample of persons from the CSSU and the departments .
7 Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical .
8 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 .
9 Let us take the example of a debt owed to Swannson-on-Wheels for haulage carried out over a four-week period ( throughout the United Kingdom ) on behalf of a computer manufacturer called Computex Ltd .
10 The counterfeit cheques , for sums between £20 and £60 , were made out over a five-month period from March last year .
11 Now that 's different you 'll not get em to cancel it but to get them to spin it out over a longer period is a possibility and that 's what we 're gon na be working towards .
12 They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help .
13 In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time .
14 The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process .
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