Example sentences of "[verb] over [art] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 Travel agents and tour operators often make back to back reservations which means that certain accommodation is booked over a period of time and as one group of guests depart another group takes their place .
2 Allowance will be made for the early payment of a lump sum to the employer which he would have earned over a period of time .
3 Such a selection policy is clearly professionally and publicly unacceptable , from any political grouping , and if pursued over a period of time , will surely replace education with propaganda as one of the purposes of the public library service .
4 Where , well where er disruptive selection i i i is very huge differences between men , male and female and this was then accentuated over a period of time
5 Each of these assets has over the fullness of time authored its own particular problems and dilemmas .
6 Furthermore measurement has usually to be made over a period of time .
7 Police believe the tape was made over a period of time .
8 The consequences of entry and exit will be felt over the course of time in the relevant markets , and it is proposed to trace entry and exit induced developments in market structure and performance over time .
9 Ironically , very often it is conservation policies , successfully applied over a period of time , that have made the centre a more attractive investment to owners and increased the value of properties .
10 Where information , particularly of a detailed nature , is to be collected over a period of time the panel has clear attractions .
11 He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time .
12 Answer guide : To provide a guide to the way in which a business has performed over a period of time .
13 As the mass media evolved over the course of time , certain professional ‘ rules ’ were developed .
14 In addition to exploring the influences upon arrears , this approach will allow the course of arrears to be traced over a period of time .
15 Doubts arose over the length of time which might elapse before the child ceased to be regarded as ‘ newly born ’ , and the Infanticide Act 1938 extended the definition to the killing of a child within twelve months of its birth by a mother whose mind is disturbed either by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child .
16 In practice , low potencies are usually prescribed over a period of time , whereas high potencies are classically administered as the single dose .
17 sustained over a period of time .
18 Precedent 3 is a framework agreement governing the continuous supply of goods under a number of orders placed over a period of time .
19 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 .
20 Another way in which the question of balance arises concerns the direction in which support flows and whether this changes over the course of time .
21 The first is that being spread over a period of time which began before the Armada , included the civil war and Commonwealth , and finished only after the accession of William of Orange , they are an unrivalled source of information on the changing status of many local families .
22 Because of the size of block used , laying is an easy job which can be spread over a period of time .
23 In the case of production contracts , which will be repeated over a period of time , pricing is sometimes based on historical rates with the learning curve applied to reduce them year by year .
24 Er improvement schemes and measures were identified and have been implemented over a period of time .
25 In fact , there were four distinct varieties , which he regarded as separate races , of subspecies , which had over a period of time become cut off from each other and ceased to interbreed .
26 Such mixture of affective psychosis and schizophrenia may be revealed in changes in the symptom profile that are observed when the person is studied over a period of time , or it may be evident within a single episode of illness .
27 This name was changed over a period of time to the name we know today , Rottweil .
28 To what extent have ideas , movements and institutions changed over a period of time ( a ) in form ( b ) in substance ?
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