Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] over [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year 's summer play scheme was the first in the Dyfi Valley and attracted more than 800 children over a period of four weeks to Ysgol Bro Ddyfi . |
| 2 | We tested six tents over a period of three months in weather ranging from sunshine to horizontal rain . |
| 3 | Ian Wyllie , who studied cuckoos extensively in Cambridgeshire reed-beds , saw it just three times over a period of six years after thousands of hours of observation . |
| 4 | Davies v. Sumner is the leading authority on the meaning of the expression ‘ in the course of a business ’ and has been followed in a case under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , R. & B. Customs Brokers v. United Dominion Trust , where it was held that a business 's buying of two or three cars over a period of five years was an insufficient degree of regularity for the latest such purchase to be regarded as made in the course of the business ( see paragraph 10–18 above . ) |
| 5 | ‘ A prisoner , who it was alleged had recently been refused Compassionate Home Leave to visit a dangerously ill relative , had already been allowed three visits over a period of three weeks . |
| 6 | Daily returns were used from 1260 securities over the period July 1962 to December 1972 . |
| 7 | Our estimate is that the city itself needs something in the order of five thousand jobs over the period of the structure plan to er really just to stay still , to run to run to stand still . |
| 8 | In a less ambitious sleep-reduction study , three pairs of subjects systematically reduced their sleep from 8 to 6 hours over a period of six weeks . |
| 9 | Thus it has been held that there was a course of dealing where the parties contracted three or four times per month for three years ( Kendall v Lillico ) and where there had been 81 transactions over a period of six years ( SIAT di del Ferro v Tradax Overseas SA [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 470 ) , but not where there had been only three or four contracts over a five-year period ( Hollier v Rambler Motors ( AMC ) Ltd [ 1972 ] 2 QB 71 ; in addition the alleged course of dealing was not consistent ) . |
| 10 | Nordhaus has looked at the evidence in nine countries over the period 1947–72 . |
| 11 | Condy eliminated unprofitable product lines and made significant improvements to production methods , for which he took out fifteen patents over the period from 1852 to 1888 . |
| 12 | And tragically , in the past few weeks we have seen the US and its Allies carry out over 44,000 sorties over a period of 20 days against the people of Iraq . |
| 13 | The particular contribution of the teaching of French to pupils ' perceptions will be explored through observation by a researcher based in the two schools over a period of at least six months . |
| 14 | The probes were connected to a portable recorder ( Digitrapper — Synectics Medical , Sweden ) capable of holding data from two channels over a period of 24 hours . |
| 15 | The child care initiative launched by my predecessor involving expenditure of over forty million pounds over the period is giving training and enterprise councils the opportunity to come forward with some very imaginative and innovative schemes . |
| 16 | The bottles are designed to be reused up to 20 times over a period of five years before being recycled into filling for toys , anoraks and duvets . |
| 17 | They originally said they 'd be covering the works of 20 composers over the period 1984–2000 but , so far , I only know of the LPs ‘ George And James ’ ( Gershwin and Brown ) and ‘ Stars And Hank Forever ’ ( Sousa and Hank Williams ) . |
| 18 | However , a practising midwife in a small colliery village during the 1930s believed that of 227 miscarriages amongst 122 women over a period of seven years , few were accidental . |