Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite an inflation-busting 37 per cent rise in allocations over the current three-year period , the council 's status inside a fiefdom that oversees the £1 billion-plus state culture industry will drop . |
| 2 | The latest setback will keep the 29-year-old out over the hectic festive period , but gives him scope to return for the next series of European Cup games . |
| 3 | This is an extra allowance , worth £1,720 a year at current rates , specially given to widows to assist them over the first difficult period . |
| 4 | This has arisen because , with the exception of the rabbit and possibly the human ( see Chapter 14 ) , the mouse is the only species that can be cultured in vitro over the entire pre-implantation period . |
| 5 | Over the long historical period since the Industrial Revolution , the focus of industrial development has shifted a number of times . |
| 6 | The IMF confirmed on Oct. 5 its approval of loans totalling SDR33,570,000 ( about US$49,000,000 ) over the coming three-year period , under the enhanced structural adjustment facility ( ESAF ) , to support the government 's medium-term economic reform programme . |
| 7 | NHS management officially described the Feb. 23 deal as representing an increase of 13.3 per cent over the full two-year period . |
| 8 | I would assume that the marketing costs could be spread fairly evenly over the full five-year period . |
| 9 | The plan called for investments totalling US$6,831 million — a 56 per cent increase over the previous five-year period — and an annual 5 per cent growth rate . |
| 10 | There was a 70 per cent increase in shop raids in London between 1925 and 1929 , for example , and a 90 per cent increase in bag-snatches over the same four-year period . |
| 11 | The £78 million fund , managed by Murray Johnstone , achieved a 10.7 per cent return on net assets , compared with a 22.2 per cent rise in the Index over the same six-month period . |
| 12 | These are normally a lot less than paying for the whole aircraft over the same short period , but after the term of the lease the aircraft must be sold , or re-financed . |
| 13 | Changes in the degree of attachment of the major Muslim nationalities to their native languages have in fact been ‘ negligible ’ over the whole Soviet period . |
| 14 | And over the whole six-year period 1979-85 the average growth of M3 was 13 per cent , which happens to be exactly the same as it was between 1965 and 1973 , the period analysed by William Rees-Mogg in his famous article in The Times ( 13 June 1976 ) , ‘ How a 9.4 per cent excess money supply gave Britain 9.4 per cent inflation ’ , which denounced the conduct of economic policy in the early Seventies . |
| 15 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |
| 16 | We regard it as an inhuman act , they say , to keep a man facing the agony of execution over a long extended period . |
| 17 | Bile ( 0.5 ml ) was taken from the gall bladder at laparotomy and infused into the proximal ileum over a two minute period . |
| 18 | To find out if PYY or bile salts were responsible for the inhibition of motility , each was separately infused intra-arterially over a two minute period , at the concentrations found in the venous efflu nts . |
| 19 | Strictly , the Beaufort Scale applies to the average wind speed over a 10 minute period . |
| 20 | After a 10 minute period , a third blood sample was taken and 200 ml of the air or respective test solution was introduced into the colon by steady infusion over a 10 minute period ( 20 ml/min ) . |
| 21 | A dose of 0.05 µg/kg body weight of ceruletide ( Farmitalia Carlo Erba Ltd , St Albans , UK ) in 10 ml saline was then given by intravenous injection over a 10 minute period . |
| 22 | A total of 875 µg of somatostatin were administered before and after ERCP over a 150 minute period . |
| 23 | During the late 1970s , the Bank of England issued three variable-rate stocks with interest payable half-yearly at an annual average ½%; above the daily average rate of discount on 91-day Treasury bills over a previous six-month period . |
| 24 | PPB is a programme orientated , as opposed to an organization orientated , management approach which examines needs over a medium-to long-term period . |
| 25 | They measured long-term performance by adding the DCF over a projected five-year period to the discounted future market value ( DFMV ) of the unit at the end of that period . |