Example sentences of "over [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lorestan has equipped his son , over painstaking months , with tools for the journey — maps , languages , portraits of individuals to be assimilated . |
| 2 | Over some months … a year or two … |
| 3 | Some courses are also offered on a part-time basis over 24–36 months . |
| 4 | Those for the MSc , MBA , LLM , MMus , MEd and MTH are generally of 12 months full-time duration ( and may be offered on a part-time basis over 24–36 months ) . |
| 5 | Stereo broadcasting started a little over six months ago when ITV and Channel 4 officially launched Stereo TV using a new digital sound transmission system , called Nicam . |
| 6 | The auction raised £780 for the fund set up by 23-year-old Beverley a little over six months ago and was the first fund-raising event since her death on February 24 . |
| 7 | As an established Cardmember you may have two further options , beyond simply paying with the Card , that allow you to spread the payments over future months . |
| 8 | Going back over previous months ' editions , I found the following : |
| 9 | It ended over three months later when the emigrant ship Jerusalem completed its run from Plymouth Sound and docked at Sydney Harbour . |
| 10 | But from my observation of Mr Farraday over these months , he is not one of those gentlemen prone to that most irritating of traits in an employer — inconsistency . |
| 11 | Indeed , to put things into a proper perspective , I should point out that just such bantering on my new employer 's part has characterized much of our relationship over these months — though I must confess , I remain rather unsure as to how I should respond . |
| 12 | This last possibility is one that has given me some concern over these months , and is something about which I still feel undecided . |
| 13 | In fact , I was only going to stay a couple of years and move on , but … but I met you and I knew right from the beginning what was going to happen to me ; and it 's grown over these months during our supposedly accidental meetings here . |
| 14 | Indeed one characteristic of British democracy is that the country is normally ruled by the party that lies second or third in the opinion polls ( if we take averages over all months since polls began , giving each month equal weight ) . |
| 15 | ‘ In a bear market you normally expect shares to drop 15 to 25 per cent over 18 months . |
| 16 | She challenged the opposition leader to join her in urging them to accept the ‘ generous ’ pay offer ranging from 9 to 16.3 per cent over 18 months ‘ or at least to have a truce over Christmas ’ . |
| 17 | Computer Sciences Corp , El Segundo , California entered a joint sales and marketing agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc to market client-server systems in the global aerospace manufacturing industry and the two are looking for combined revenues from the partnership to total about $80m over 18 months . |
| 18 | With very gradual familiarisation training spread over many months of flying , some of these students have been completely cured . |
| 19 | Part of it was simple force of personality , buttressed by a Marine uniform ; part of it was expectation , a slow series of teasing appearances and an avalanche of peculiar facts , built up over many months . |
| 20 | Its creation represents the energies and commitment of organisations — individuals over many months . |
| 21 | American studies on skin health have indicated that the over-use of steam treatments ( more than twice a week over many months ) can cause ‘ jungle acne ’ — a disorder brought about by the presence of excess moisture in the skin . |
| 22 | These studies provide substantial evidence that , at least in the case of the keyboard concertos K449 , K488 , and K595 and the string quarter K458 , the process of composition was spread out over many months . |
| 23 | The foreground software used ; Smart , Cardbox and Multiplan have all been found to work fine with memory resident software over many months of use . |
| 24 | This was the place where he had almost bowled Anna over many months before and where he enjoyed riding the horse at breakneck speed , disregarding anyone else who might chance to be on the path . |
| 25 | As the House knows , there was strong pressure over many months for all aspects of co-operation to come within European Community competence . |
| 26 | Endoscopic surveillance of treated and untreated asymptomatic ulcers has indicated that 75% persist unhealed over many months , and so it is unlikely that an endoscopy every four months would have missed many . |
| 27 | This suggests that EATCL may behave in an apparently indolent fashion with a very slow change in pathological state over many months as measured by clinical state , serial upper gastrointestinal biopsy , radiography , haematology , and biochemistry results . |
| 28 | It is not surprising then , if over several months , this oversight should reveal itself in these small but telling ways . |
| 29 | You thus end up with a whole batch of specific tasks to carry out , some over several months , even years . |
| 30 | Those over forty should build up slowly over several months before arriving at a suggested target of half an hour three times a week of vigorous exercise , which can include dancing , squash , tennis , running , or energetic swimming . |