Example sentences of "[noun prp] over a period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Itzhak Shamir , the Prime Minister and Likud leader , announced at the end of a Cabinet meeting on Dec. 31 that he was dismissing Weizmann from the Cabinet , claiming that Weizmann had maintained contacts with the PLO over a period of time . |
| 2 | The stardom sort of crept up on Nicholson over a period of weeks . |
| 3 | But this is surely nitpicking , in what can be viewed as a significant contribution to our knowledge of so many aspects relating to the ordinary citizens of Florence over a period of more than 200 years . |
| 4 | Remarkable posters designed from his Brighton Studio for the Academy Cinema in Oxford Street over a period of forty years — each in effect a ‘ portrait ’ of the film . |
| 5 | In this way many kept an account going at Gieves over a period of years for a modest monthly sum of two or three pounds . |
| 6 | Fig. 9.1 Age-sex profiles for Great Britain over a period of 130 years . |
| 7 | In each case a small working party met within SHHD over a period of a number of months . |
| 8 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 9 | Plants in some 34 families were used in Borneo over a period of 16 months and all but 5 were sources of fruit . |
| 10 | 1979 ) to measure the time delay for reflections from Mars over a period of 14 months . |
| 11 | ‘ Travelling on the train to and from Folkestone and London over a period of months I knitted a bright pink jumper . |
| 12 | The tiny Aussie star , who scored 17 smash hits with svengali Pete Waterman 's record label PWL over a period of five years , admits : ‘ I was bored with being told to smile and go out and make money . ’ |