Example sentences of "[noun] over the period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 6.1 shows the distribution of PNP Scale l/MPG roles revealed by the survey of all schools over the period 1986–9 . |
| 2 | On Oct. 3 the EC Commission announced , in response to US demands for radical cuts in subsidies paid out to farmers , that it had proposed a 30 per cent cut in its farm-support programme over the period 1986 to 1996 . |
| 3 | Figure 9.1 shows the movements in real exchange rates of the major currencies over the period 1974 — 88 . |
| 4 | On Nov. 7 the Joint European Torus ( JET ) , based near Oxford in the UK ( see p. 36052 ) , had issued an appeal for an additional 400,000,000 ECU over the period to 1996 , to enable it to continue its research into nuclear fusion . |
| 5 | The value of the shares in a hypothetical portfolio of acquired banks rose by 420% over the period studied , against a 160% increase for a portfolio of wallflower banks . |
| 6 | It also shows women are over-represented in education , languages and literature and music/drama/art/design , whereas men are over-represented in engineering and technology and science , and that this pattern has not changed a great deal over the period , despite attempts to even out the balance , and in particular to attract more women on to science and technology courses . |
| 7 | By combining such indicators , a quantitative picture can be presented of what has happened in British central government administration over the period both corporately and in individual departments ; and the question of whether changes in one dimension are related to changes in others can be examined . |
| 8 | The difficulties are obvious : lack of adequate data over the period and , more importantly , the thorny issue of cause and effect . |
| 9 | Lucas 's study used data from 18 countries , and the regression equation ( 6.5 ) was estimated for each of them using annual data over the period 1952–67 . |
| 10 | British industry 's rates of growth were markedly below those of its European counterparts and as a result an absolute advantage was transformed into an absolute disadvantage over the period . |
| 11 | According to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) , more than 280,000 people had left their homes over the period of the fighting . |
| 12 | It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) . |
| 13 | As Table 4 indicates , substantial changes took place in the structure of residential services in Nottinghamshire over the period of the study . |
| 14 | He considered his notes ; what he needed from this interview was to confirm that Angela Morgan had not been in the office on Saturday , and a statement of Peter Yeo 's movements over the period within which Angela Morgan had probably been killed . |
| 15 | I said I 'd let him know the total number of , of contact days or whatever with Sherburn over the period so that is something I need to get from you Bill . |
| 16 | More 's study ( 1980 ) of skill levels among engineering workers in England over the period 1870–1914 comes to the conclusion that it is not possible to sustain a definite ‘ deskilling ’ thesis on the evidence available . |
| 17 | The project aims to rectify this omission for England over the period 1650-1914 by the construction of national rent index , and then to investigate two further problems : a regional breakdown of the index to see of there was a space-related differentiated land market ; and secondly to focus attention on three periods of outstanding agricultural depression within the long run to see whether there was a time-related differentiation . |
| 18 | Demographic and migration trends indicated that the rate of new household formation over the period of the structure plan ( i.e. until the mid-1990s ) was expected to be half of the post-war average levels and total population was likely to fall . |
| 19 | Last year , turnover was £174 million and profits £33 million , a compound profit growth rate of 82 per cent ( making it Britain 's 93rd-best profit performer over the period ) . |
| 20 | The growth areas over the period 1971–84 were financial services , with an increase of 11 000 jobs ( more than twice the 1971 figures ) , and distribution , etc. , with an increase of 12000 jobs , or an increase of a third . |
| 21 | According to CIA estimates , Latin America ( excluding Cuba ) was allocated only 5.6 per cent of the aid extended by the Soviet Union to all non-Communist developing countries over the period 1954–78 , and received less than 2.5 per cent of Soviet military deliveries to the Third World . |
| 22 | Nordhaus has looked at the evidence in nine countries over the period 1947–72 . |
| 23 | the price range over the period of interest denoted , ( Segall , 1956 ; Garcia , Leuthold and Zapata , 1986 ; Martell and Wolf , 1987 ; Board and Sutcliffe , 1990 ) ; |
| 24 | This applies most readily to a partnership , for example , where the financial statements are concerned with showing wealth and the change in wealth over the period . |
| 25 | A team at the university 's dermatology department examined all the 1,354 men and 2,459 women diagnosed with melanoma in Scotland over the period . |
| 26 | Since 1985 profits growth in the division has been restricted to an average of less than 5 per cent a year and as 40 per cent of revenues come from the US the one third fall in the dollar over the period obviously affected the outcome as have rising R&D costs . |
| 27 | In a series of analyses , we vary the climate sensitivity and a scaling factor linking changes in solar cycle length to radiative forcing , and determine the best fit between annual modelled and observed global-mean ( land-plus-marine ) temperature by maximizing the explained variance over the period 1861–1985 ( following ref. 11 ) . |
| 28 | Of these , only two , the chaffinch and the greenfinch , registered a slight increase in population over the period . |
| 29 | Dilnot and Kell felt that any ‘ incentive ’ effect which may have been present could only account , at most , for 1.2bn or 3% of the total increase in tax revenues over the period studied . |
| 30 | The objective of the [ draft ] FRS is to ensure that financial statements provide a clear , coherent and consistent treatment of capital instruments , in particular as regards the classification of instruments either as debt or as equity ; that costs associated with capital instruments are allocated to accounting periods on a fair basis over the period the instrument is in issue ; and that financial statements provide relevant information concerning the nature and amount of the entity 's sources of finance and the associated costs , commitments and potential commitments . |