Example sentences of "over [adj] period [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maximum amount of sediment likely to be deposited over that period along the coast generally is about 30 centimetres and we know that hurricanes will certainly rearrange that amount of material . |
| 2 | His 70 appearances were only improved over that period by the evergreen John McCormick , goalkeeper John Jackson and the much younger Mel Blyth , and they tell us something of the fitness and sheer determination of the man . |
| 3 | Pulse arrival times have been recorded by Taylor and his colleagues over extended periods during the last 15 years . |
| 4 | With brute strength ( it took at least ten horses to shift even one medium field gun ) , the Germans eventually moved their guns forward but the delays involved meant that many of the deadly 21Os , so essential a part of the German offensive technique , were hors de combat over long periods of the battle during its most critical phase . |
| 5 | Remote rural counties , such as those of mid and north Wales and Cornwall grew at below average rates over both periods until the middle 1970s , since when they have had above average growth . |