Example sentences of "over [art] period of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The stated rate of interest payable in respect of stepped interest bonds increases progressively over the period of issue .
2 Fishkeepers should always bear in mind that the majority of their fish have over the period of evolution become adapted to live in a certain environment — sea , river , swamp , lake , etc … each with its own specific limits of water chemistry and quality .
3 the price range over the period of interest denoted , ( Segall , 1956 ; Garcia , Leuthold and Zapata , 1986 ; Martell and Wolf , 1987 ; Board and Sutcliffe , 1990 ) ;
4 Economy is a measure of how much the product costs over the period of use with regard to the performance achieved .
5 The expected cost of providing pensions to employees is charged to the profit and loss account as incurred over the period of employment of pensionable employees .
6 Pensions Under Irish GAAP , the expected cost of providing pensions to employees is charged to the profit and loss account as incurred over the period of employment of pensionable employees , with any surplus or deficit of plan obligations over plan assets amortized to the income statement over the expected future service lives of the active employees , at a fixed proportion of pensionable pay .
7 They too stand at around 22 per cent , but are phased over the period of production .
8 The only problem was that we had envisaged a tumbledown affair that we would rebuild over the period of time while we were still living and working in London .
9 It should also be remembered that teachers are always assessing their pupils ' performance on a daily basis and will know their pupils well over the period of time .
10 We , when we introduced the community care element , looking at the budget earlier in the day , we did also refer to the Audit Commission report on that , and again it is quite clear from the Audit Commission report , that it remains a government expectation that we will continue to review our provision , that we will compare it as is done in this paper , with others and particularly the independent sector , and an expectation that we will rationalize where necessary , and hence the proposals over the period of time , that are in your budget package for reviewing and rationalizing only .
11 Over the period of study , 228 dolphins were reliably reported to have drowned in set-nets , out of a total population estimated in 1984 at 740 .
12 Over the period of action five to ten years .
13 This success lies behind his translation to Canterbury in the following year ; thereafter , until his death in 1381 , he presided over a period of taxation the scale of which exceeded even that of the early years of the reign .
14 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 .
15 Over a period of time they will all be ill .
16 They are the inevitable result of her stand in advocating bourgeois liberalisation over a period of time . ’
17 Differing slightly from Ibrams are the many cases where ‘ cumulative provocation ’ has been directed towards D over a period of time , and then some minor act sparks off the loss of self-control and killing .
18 But setting aside those factors , the overall running costs of injection do begin to come close to those of conventional spreading , over a period of time .
19 All the small modifications should add up over a period of time to make major achievements .
20 Good examples of activities to maintain motivation are collecting inspiring dieting case histories from slimming magazines ; going out to buy a dress one size smaller than your present size ; looking at charts and graphs that show good overall weight loss over a period of time .
21 You have learned to look hard and analyse a complex situation , devise a detailed strategy for solving it , and then carefully carry it out over a period of time , revising your plan where necessary to cope with unforeseen difficulties .
22 Often this is to do with the fact that the current bereavement has driven the person into emotional overload because of everything else that is happening in their life either currently or over a period of time .
23 For this reason production cooperatives must be encouraged to grow from small beginnings over a period of time with sensitive support .
24 maintaining contact with families over a period of time
25 He believes that practice in , for instance , mirror exercises , would over a period of time develop these personal traits , so often neglected by a traditional curriculum .
26 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 .
27 But over a period of time , two things disturb this equilibrium : evaporation and infiltration .
28 It was a ‘ fly-on-the-wall ’ programme covering the fortunes and misfortunes of a London family , over a period of time — warts and all .
29 Furthermore measurement has usually to be made over a period of time .
30 In July 1964 the corporation , the NIHT and the rural district council came to an agreement to share responsibility for housing Springtown families over a period of time , but this did not end the problem .
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