Example sentences of "over a [adj] period in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been a doughty fighter over a long period in favour of the use of democracy and dialogue and in condemnation of the use of violence . |
| 2 | Figure 18.4 shows , by means of five-year moving averages of deaths per million in England and Wales , how the disease has behaved over a long period in relation to other serious illnesses . |
| 3 | The other major case , which later separated into two , involved the murders of two boys aged 14 and 6 , which obtained fairly intensive coverage over a five-day period in the popular dailies . |
| 4 | Second , to make possible a detailed account of specific changes in villages , over a 35-year period in which Turkey virtually accomplished the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society ; population up by a factor of 2.5 , GNP per capital up by a factor of around 3 ; more than 20 million people recruited into non-agricultural occupations . |
| 5 | In the decade 's final timetable , there is an express every 15 minutes ( plus one extra ) between Swindon and Paddington over a two-and-a-half-hour period in the morning rush . |
| 6 | It was reported in Parliament , for example , that of thirty-two reported instances of ‘ highway theft ’ over a six-month period in South Kensington in 1932 , only one of these was treated as ‘ robbery with violence ’ . |