Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] period and " in BNC.

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1 The substance of such an arrangement is that the debt is repaid over the primary period and the payments required by the debt should be apportioned between a finance charge for each accounting period and the effective reduction of the principal amount .
2 Although scarcely under challenge from other national groups , Russians made up a steadily diminishing proportion of the total population over the postwar period and the Russian Republic included many of the Soviet Union 's poorest farmland and most dismal cities , creating at least the impression that it was subsidising developments in more prosperous non-Russian areas .
3 They have been used to ‘ track ’ party policies over the postwar period and to see how far party 's electoral promises have been fulfilled in government .
4 More important for the present discussion , however , was the spatial variability in both support for the strike over the full period and the rate of the drift back to work .
5 When you feel your temper fraying over the festive period and are on the verge of hurling some rather choice insults , sneak off and read The Bedside Book of Insults by William Cole & Louis Phillips ( £7.95 , John Murray ) .
6 Over the festive period and during the Summit , the ‘ Window on Europe ’ project decorated the Regional Chambers and headquarters .
7 Hence the focus is on local politics , on the ways in which these have changed and developed over the post-war period and on the concepts and theories used to account for such changes .
8 This section outlines some of the main characteristics of the changes in the international economy over the post-war period and starts to draw out some implications for our understanding of the UK 's position in it .
9 The second is that the cash flow is constant over the whole period and that C represents both dividend payments and capital gains ( losses ) where necessary .
10 The next thing er which again er is er a detail of something which is already approved and it is merely than in our conditions of service during our discussions with the city er personnel department we noted , or they noted as it had arisen that we indicated the route to erm sick pay over a certain period and before a certain period but not the detail of how you got there .
11 I know it happens in individual subjects and there 's the element of repetition but , you are at the same time making them reflect over a certain period and say I have not entirely wasted my time , there maybe some youngsters for whom it will be extremely difficult , and I except that but my thinking is that is you look hard enough you can find something that everybody has done at whatever level that they can take some pride in .
12 The treaty provided for the elimination of all chemical weapons stocks over a 10-year period and for a detailed inspections procedure for to ensure compliance .
13 There 's really no chance of getting bitten if your ferrets have been properly handled over a long period and are never scared .
14 If it 's a professional job they will have been observed over a long period and their habits and financial status will be known . ’
15 It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing .
16 They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help .
17 The study contributes towards a comprehensive view of the working of the labour market over a long period and of the sources of shocks disturbing the economy .
18 It is a stone building , constructed over a long period and one of the richest Czech Gothic ecclesiastical structures .
19 This explains how the disease can be misdiagnosed over a long period and stresses the need for biopsy specimens whatever the type of gastric lesion .
20 Erm , this is something that I 've spoken with about over a long period and what really has concerned me is that we 've two red signals , both facing the traffic and children and blind people could be crossing thinking the traffic had held up , and when I or detecting we rely on our own engineers maybe going round that way , maybe the police or public reporting it .
21 Given a little thought as to siting the Pentstemons will provide a lot of interest over a long period and should prevent the need for annual replanting , which can be expensive and labour intensive .
22 This is seldom needed for analysis purposes but random access mode is often used where the records are held over a long period and have to be updated with the passage of time .
23 Borrowers are able to use the facility up to 140 per cent of their quota over a four-year period and with much more relaxed repayment conditions than the normal facilities .
24 He says on a 500-acre farm the cost of an innocent error in completing the complicated forms might be a loss of more than £100,000 over a two-year period and assured bankruptcy for the farmer concerned .
25 He claimed that 85,000 people had used the range over a two-year period and that outdoor sport was acceptable on green belt land .
26 A study was carried out in a Bedfordshire village , i.e. a semi-rural environment , of predation by domestic cats over a one-year period and the results were published in a zoological journal in 1987 .
27 Quite apart from these constraints there are more familiar problems associated with compound growth calculations : the weighting of capital and labour is on the crude basis of their respective shares in gross domestic income ; the technique of weighting from year to year is , as always , a compromise between different types of index ; compound rates of change are constant over a given period and , therefore , may not adequately reflect sharp movements within the period .
28 Preferences for large families , which entail childbearing over an extended period and at relatively frequent intervals , is another cultural trait that , when effectuated , burdens the woman , the family and the society with unwanted results .
29 One case which involved the murder of a 3-year-old girl received massive coverage over an eight-day period and then spasmodic coverage over the next seven weeks until a 27-year-old man was arrested and charged with the child 's murder .
30 The closure of the regional offices was phased over an 18-month period and affected 435 staff .
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