Example sentences of "over a period of three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a period of three weeks they were shunted back and forth between Germany , London and Cairo until the Home Office granted them temporary admission . |
| 2 | A large travelling version of the exhibition was later prepared by SAVE , and shown in major museums and galleries all round the country over a period of three years . |
| 3 | A survey of all reviews appearing in British daily and Sunday newspapers over a period of three months in 1973 reported coverage as follows : fiction ( 873 reviews ) ; biography ( 621 ) ; children 's books ( 449 ) ; art ( 246 ) ; history ( 242 ) ; natural science ( 129 ) ; literature ( 126 ) ; poetry ( 1 19 ) ; humour ( 113 ) ; politics and economics ( 102 ) . |
| 4 | Like many earnest campaigns , the society raised moral indignation over a period of three years when a ‘ naked ’ papier mâché horse was put on display in a Manhattan airline office ; the horse was quickly removed and an apology was sent as speedily . |
| 5 | For instance , in a group of patients with rheumatoid and osteoarthritis who were treated with an elimination diet followed by a wheat-free diet , cervical reintegration and the green-lipped mussel preparation , Seatone , significant and often dramatic improvements were obtained in a fortnight of an order similar to , or better than , those obtained by either homoeopathy or Seatone alone over a period of three to six months . |
| 6 | Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years . |
| 7 | We tested six tents over a period of three months in weather ranging from sunshine to horizontal rain . |
| 8 | Scenting the strength of Coleby 's desire for the knife , he had beaten him up from two shillings to ten over a period of three days . |
| 9 | The donation is to be paid in full by the company over a period of three years . |
| 10 | Over a period of three hundred years , black people have achieved a growing presence in sport in Britain yet it seems pathetic that we have no account for it apart from reference to the mysterious attribute called natural ability . |
| 11 | The ensuing campaign , generally known as the Battle of Lemberg , was fought over a period of three weeks ( 23 August–12 September ) along a front of some 322kms/200mls between the rivers Vistula and Bug . |
| 12 | The league consisted of four leading competitions held over a period of three months at various venues in North Yorkshire on a 10 metres high Enterprises panel wall . |
| 13 | But levied over a period of three years it brought in about £80,000 and became the prototype for later subsidies . |
| 14 | She pestered the appropriate officer , several times a day over a period of three weeks . |
| 15 | manifested itself perhaps , over a period of three , four years . |
| 16 | Barclays Bank would not divulge its figures despite repeated requests over a period of three weeks . |
| 17 | Similarly , slow learners are allowed to continue their foreign language study over a period of three or four years in order to master one or two levels . |
| 18 | The hon. Member for Blackburn produces wholly fictitious figures which compare the new building costs for new schools or for the conversion of schools to CTCs over a period of three years with the capital expenditure borrowing guidelines for 14 authorities in one year . |
| 19 | This project will monitor the development of contracting between three Age Concern Groups and both their local Social Service Department and Health Authorities over a period of three years , with special attention to the effects of the new ‘ contracting culture ’ on |
| 20 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |
| 21 | We have recently shown that significant portal and systemic endotoxaemia occurs in this model over a period of three weeks . |
| 22 | Enteral administration of kaopectate and terra fullonica over a period of three days produced a significant reduction in systemic endotoxaemia when compared with control therapy ( Table III ) . |
| 23 | Thus he favoured co-operation with other major industrial states in the hope that sterling might be restored to health over a period of three or four years . |
| 24 | In particular , the number of stopping places available to them has been drastically reduced over a period of three or four decades during which the travelling population has been on the increase , although I have not been able to discover the measure of it . |
| 25 | ‘ A prisoner , who it was alleged had recently been refused Compassionate Home Leave to visit a dangerously ill relative , had already been allowed three visits over a period of three weeks . |
| 26 | Over a period of three consecutive years , between 1 April 1969 and 31 March 1972 , the Library measured the number of foreign-language titles consulted by readers , and recorded the relative frequency with which particular overseas languages were read . |
| 27 | ‘ Villette ’ starts in the narrator 's girlhood , and takes place over several years ; ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ is over a period of three or four days . |