Example sentences of "over a [adj] period [conj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 There 's really no chance of getting bitten if your ferrets have been properly handled over a long period and are never scared .
5 If it 's a professional job they will have been observed over a long period and their habits and financial status will be known . ’
6 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 .
7 They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help .
8 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 .
9 It is a stone building , constructed over a long period and one of the richest Czech Gothic ecclesiastical structures .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 People who drink very heavily on the other hand , either over a prolonged period or in a single drinking session , do run the risk of damaging their health .
15 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 .
16 Warnock had admitted stealing the money over a two-year period while she was the toy library 's treasurer .
17 It was at least the sixth time over a two-year period that the unveiling had been postponed .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 A child who is not feeling well will stop eating temporarily and rapidly lose weight over a short period but this will be regained equally quickly once the child has recovered .
21 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 .
22 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 .
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