Example sentences of "of [noun] over a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you mark your weight on a graph or chart this should provide a clear and rewarding sign of progress over a period of weeks and months . |
| 2 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |
| 3 | Chairman can I er suggest to these results of course over a period and I 'd like to see |
| 4 | After that going for gold involves participating in a wide range of activities over a period of at least 18 months . |
| 5 | They have an album of photos showing the house at different stages of completion over a period of 18 months . |
| 6 | Inserts to b and c show the changes expected in the Pb isotopic composition of a model array of data over a period of 130Myr with μ ( 238 U/ 204 Pb ) values comparable to those found in the erupted basalts . |
| 7 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 10 | The group says that the survival of evidence over a period of years defies expectations and improves the prospects for enforcement of the recently signed international Chemical Weapons Convention ( see Nature 361 , 105 ; 1993 ) . |
| 11 | Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years . |
| 12 | Undertake the management of the care of a group of patients over a period of time and organise the appropriate support service . |
| 13 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 14 | Other studies have surveyed panels of respondents over a period of time — though few have physiological measures of health ( such as changes in blood pressure ) or doctors diagnoses , and most use self-report questionnaires of one sort or another . |
| 15 | Typology is the study of the development of particular types of artefact over a period of time . |
| 16 | There are also some local variations in the measurements and because of this reliable detection of growth over a period of half a day seems unlikely . |
| 17 | This study focuses upon a number of children over a period of up to 40 months beginning early in their final year at school and covering the transitional period that follows . |
| 18 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |
| 19 | A valuable feature of our case is that it provides a detailed profile of the natural history of EATCL over a period of 12 months from initial presentation to the introduction of chemotherapy . |
| 20 | This seems to be at variance with John Jones where a number of incidents over a period were held to be duplicitously charged as a single count of affray . |