Example sentences of "[vb past] over a period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Designed by John Carr of York and built over a period of thirteen years between 1759 and 1772 , its spectacular interior boasts exquisite plasterwork ceilings by the Scottish architect Robert Adam decorated by Angelica Kaufman , Biagio Rebecca and Antonio Zucchi . |
| 2 | Four Minor Project schools were selected for closer investigation by the evaluation team and visited over a period of one or two days . |
| 3 | The parricide committed by human beings occurred over a period of perhaps thousands of years , and was repeated innumerable times all over the globe , for it was the primal horde that marked humanity off from nature , and began the social , historical and cultural evolution of man . |
| 4 | The plagues probably occurred over a period of about a year . |
| 5 | If the damage occurred over a period of time , there is no cover . |
| 6 | To avoid settlement problems at this location a surcharge embankment was constructed and monitored over a period of 8 months . |
| 7 | My colleagues and I in Wales Link were greatly looking forward to her visit , planned over a period of 18 months . |
| 8 | Out of a total of seventeen boys from this group interviewed over a period of one year , no fewer than ten had been in trouble with the police for offences not connected with activities at football matches . |
| 9 | In several instances , the parents gradually became aware that something was ‘ wrong ’ : the user 's physical appearance deteriorated over a period of time ; household and personal items were unexplainedly missing from the home ; the user began borrowing heavily and often from parents and siblings . |
| 10 | A loan is a sum of money borrowed over a period of time at a certain rate of interest . |
| 11 | In both key stages 3 and 4 they should have the opportunity to present an extended piece of work that has been planned , drafted , revised and polished over a period of time . |
| 12 | Further heated correspondence followed over a period of months , illustrating that strong views were held on both sides and that the time for agreement had not arrived . |
| 13 | Meryl accompanied her feeble joke with a grimace , then stared as his face blanched over a period of seconds , and his fork hovered aimlessly between plate and mouth . |
| 14 | The iconography of a state 's coinage viewed over a period of time can reveal a certain amount of information about the aspirations of that state , since the choice of designs will normally reflect the matters considered important by at least an influential body in that state and will present these important matters in a particular way . |
| 15 | A founder of the St Clares Ladies Choir which performed over a period of years , she also found time to become a devoted and regular pilgrim to Lourdes , where her lovely voice became well known to those in the Torchlight Processions . |
| 16 | Patsy and I corresponded over a period of four months . |
| 17 | perhaps the most enduring of these funded arrangements was the Cassell Fund 's support for Miss Green 's appointment in the Kettering district , which with Miss Stocks as personal guarantor and additional fund-raiser , support from employers , and modest contributions from the LEA , extended over a period of some twenty years . |
| 18 | Although occasionally Nizan 's assessment of a writer fluctuated over a period of time ( Gide , Giono , Mauriac ) , although on occasions Nizan was simultaneously attracted and repelled by individual writers ( Mauriac , Drieu la Rochelle , Celine ) , the bottom line was always a clear differentiation between a progressive and a reactionary attitude to culture . |
| 19 | In historical periods a loss factor of about 2 per cent per annum is known to have occurred ; compounded over a period of as long as a century , this will clearly drastically reduce the amount of coinage of year a available to the hoarder at the later date . |