Example sentences of "and over a period of " in BNC.
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1 | The everyday lives of ordinary people are not the basis for good television unless the characters and events are portrayed in a consistently entertaining fashion , and over a period of time ; hence the great success of television soap operas . |
2 | According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies . |
3 | This does not add much to the cost of the order , and over a period of time the extra components build up into a useful stock of parts . |
4 | The masculine energy is made available , and over a period of time the woman can crystallize that energy into a bond that will hold fast . |
5 | The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving . |
6 | A programme of restoration back to full working order followed and over a period of 18 months , it was stripped , restored and rebuilt to its present immaculate condition . |
7 | In both cases you have to find a deposit , and over a period of time pay off what is , in effect , a loan . |
8 | The place was besieged , and over a period of months , including a winter , the English grip tightened . |
9 | Also studied were the consistency of performance of individuals within and between topics , between mode of assessment and over a period of time . |
10 | In Woodrow , it was held that affray is a continuing offence , so that where an indictment charged the defendants with a single offence and particularised several incidents that had occurred at different places and over a period of several hours , the indictment was not bad for duplicity . |
11 | This stage is followed by a search for means to implement the desired change and over a period of time a cycle of problems are handled by this method . |
12 | Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective . |