Example sentences of "over [det] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is one day 's debate on an extremely serious matter , compared to what could be done by a Select Committee over many weeks of sitting , bringing evidence before it , questioning people involved , looking at the matter in depth . |
| 2 | He had , over many weeks , been siphoning petrol from a garage owner 's tank and lorries ; and the owner had , on this particular weekend , diluted the tank with water . |
| 3 | This is detailed in three phases over many weeks of treatment as follows : |
| 4 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that this is not something that has arisen in the past few days , but has been carefully negotiated by the Government over many weeks ? |
| 5 | Over several weeks of confrontation between thousands of demonstrators and police , who were backed by armoured cars with water cannons , the site was occupied , reclaimed by the police and then reoccupied . |
| 6 | Interviewing skills can be acquired and developed by placing individual trainees under the supervision of an experienced therapist who , over several weeks , monitors the trainee 's progress . |
| 7 | Instruction manuals , tape-recordings of assessment interviews , and interviews carried out under the supervision of experienced therapists over several weeks could be used for the training of new therapists . |
| 8 | Once the young plants are about 4ins ( 10cms ) tall , they should be planted in a separate tank , where the water-level can be gradually increased over several weeks until the plant is fully submerged . |
| 9 | Illness develops slowly over several weeks ( or more ) and treatment is more successful in the early stages , so it is essential not to put off seeing a doctor . |
| 10 | The children carrying out the work about evaporation were given the opportunity to watch the tank of water over several weeks , noting their thoughts and observations in a class log book . |
| 11 | The ballot is organised by an independent teller — usually the Electoral Reform Society — and takes place over several weeks . |
| 12 | The visit followed accusations by Egyptian officials over several weeks that gunmen who attacked foreign tourists in Egypt , damaging the lucrative tourism industry [ see pp. 39168 ; 39214-15 ] , had been trained in Iranian-run camps in Sudan . |