Example sentences of "took place over a " in BNC.

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1 Field-work took place over a twelve-month period between 1987 and 1988 , and was sufficiently prolonged to avoid the criticism which brief ‘ smash-andgrab ’ ethnographies often deserve .
2 The rebuilding of the old manor took place over a period of about five years and was probably finished in about 1727 .
3 Unlike the 1991 Rugby World Cup , which took place over a whole month , not to mention the three months build-up , thereby allowing the sponsors to develop their marketing strategy over a long period of time , the World Sevens tournament is a three-day event , with the commercial potential of a ‘ Market blink ’ , as he puts it .
4 Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots .
5 My first little skirmish took place over a film , one about rape .
6 But the change was n't radical , it took place over a period of er I would suggest er maybe about six or seven years .
7 Telford 's intensive subject assessment , co-ordinated in college by Fiona Baikie , took place over a fortnight at the end of November 1989 .
8 In the beginning , the race took place over a course that included three brooks and a five foot stone wall amongst the 29 jumps .
9 Comparison of the contents of the first two editions of Craig 's ‘ Geology of Scotland ’ , published in 1965 and 1983 , reveals just how completely and all-pervasively this change took place over a very short period of time .
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