Example sentences of "[n mass] over a [adj] period " in BNC.
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1 | The Commission approved on Dec. 17 , 1989 , for the third framework programme , its key technology research and development initiative , a budget of 5,700 million ECU over a five-year period of which one-third was to be for research into information technology . |
2 | A stability test involves the accumulation of a substantial amount of data over a prolonged period of time and may require the production of reports at several stages of the test . |
3 | The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer . |
4 | The only way that we could definitely ascertain the extent of the increase in recorded crime which is due to changes in reporting and/or recording practices would be if there were available victimization data over a long period . |
5 | He says on a 500-acre farm the cost of an innocent error in completing the complicated forms might be a loss of more than £100,000 over a two-year period and assured bankruptcy for the farmer concerned . |
6 | In a prospective study of general practice prescribing involving more than 40 000 people over a 2-year period , Skegg et al. ( 1983 ) found that only three in a thousand of those who had received psychotropics went on to take an overdose of the drugs within the following 12 months . |
7 | An important aspect would be a study of the progress of a sample of young people over a long period . |
8 | Escobar , accused of responsibility for the murder of hundreds of people over a 10-year period , including a Justice Minister , an Attorney General , at least one presidential candidate [ see p. 36844 ] and 107 passengers aboard a domestic flight [ see p. 37041 ] , was not expected to stand trial for at least a year . |
9 | As compared with the more usual situation in which we only know the activity of people over a short period , such data raise some challenging statistical and econometric problems . |
10 | When the first giraffes began to stretch their necks to reach the leaves of trees , they were choosing a new habit that would guide the future development of their species over a vast period of time . |