Example sentences of "and over [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trying to convince people the project was worth pursuing was not easy , and over a long period personal time had to be carved out to work on the project from time allocated to a variety of other activities ranging from textile fibres to films and even to electronics . |
| 2 | He spoke as though they knew each other well and over a long period . |
| 3 | We believe we are doing our bit in this respect , successfully and over a long period , by land . ’ |
| 4 | Gustave writes this in one of his earliest letters to Louise Colet ; and over a seven-year period ( 1846–53 ) he makes occasional references to the planned autobiography . |
| 5 | According to a government report published on Aug. 9 , cases of espionage in Switzerland involving agents from Eastern Europe continued to increase ; 65 of the 91 cases recorded from 1980 to 1988 involved these countries , most of which desired technological rather than political or security information , and over the same period 17 of the 24 diplomats and officials expelled were from Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | This control data was obtained from patients and healthy volunteers who had undergone identical tests as the patients with idiopathic DU and over the same period either specifically for the present study or as part of another study . |