Example sentences of "a [noun sg] over [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Checklists are not appropriate for people who do not have inti-mate knowledge of a child over a period of some weeks . |
| 2 | In practice , the average is usually a time average ; one observes and averages the velocity at a point over a period long enough for separate measurements to give effectively the same result . |
| 3 | Anthropologists , for example , are able to interpret a culture , at first sight inexplicable to those from a different culture , by living with , talking to and observing people in a community over a period of years . |
| 4 | Longer-term effects were studied in four young couples , three who normally slept about 8 hours every night , and one who slept 6.5 hours a night , who volunteered to attempt to reduce their sleep progressively to 4.5 hours a night over a period of between six and eight months . |
| 5 | The control which state and interests together could exert over society and economy contributed to a uniquely low level of class conflict for much of the twentieth century so ensuring a political stability that reached a head over the period 19455 . |
| 6 | She pestered the appropriate officer , several times a day over a period of three weeks . |
| 7 | Both parties can get something from that situation , if you trust people and you look at things a relationship over a period of time rather than this particular thing this is what I want now this is what I 'm gon na get rather than well okay I 'll help you do this now and later on they 'll help me do something else , it becomes a win win . |
| 8 | Scientific studies carried out a few years ago revealed that regular sunbed users ( those using a bed more than once a week over a period of a few years ) now have a condition called skin fragility syndrome . |
| 9 | A currency hoard is a sum of money put together by drawing all its coins from circulation on a single occasion , whereas a savings hoard is formed by gradually adding coins to a hoard over a period of several years ; the difference in the way the coins were collected will affect the internal composition of the hoard . |
| 10 | The next part of the treatment is to ask him to visualize such a situation over a period of a week or two while , at the same time , trying to refrain from the sexual act itself — although kissing and caressing his partner , whether in bed or not , is to be encouraged . |
| 11 | Neither problem reached critical proportions between 1945 and 1951 , but with hindsight they cast a shadow over the period . |
| 12 | I was learning a lot over the period of making mistakes as you can imagine . |
| 13 | The growth of GDP , which had averaged 5.4 per cent annual growth in the first half of the 1970s and 0.8 per cent between 1975 and 1980 , went into reverse , dropping on average 5.7 per cent a year over the period from 1981 to 1988 . |
| 14 | So was municipal waste , in spite of growth in GDP per head of 1.8% a year over the period ( chart 1 ) . |
| 15 | Dataquest Japan forecasts that while the office computer market at $4,600m is currently double the size of the workstation market , the market will decline at 7% annually over the next few years to 1996 , while Unix workstation shipments will grow at 29% a year over the period . |