Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | In total , over the six month period , 59 per cent of the referrals commenced during week days and 41 per cent after 5 p.m. or at weekends , two commencing after 11 p.m . |
| 2 | However , it was still felt that a comparison between action and control samples might be interesting , merely to see whether there was any clear difference between the two samples over the six month period . |
| 3 | This can also be expressed in terms of arrest rates — the numbers arrested over the six month period per 100 in the resident population . |
| 4 | We recorded the address of each person arrested over the six month period — a total of over 5,000 people — and , using maps , we ascertained the enumeration district or ward in which the arrestee lived . |
| 5 | Interest received from the borrower over the six months might not be sufficient to cover the bank 's own interest costs on deposits . |
| 6 | The immediate industrial crisis had been resolved , but inflation , which had been substantially boosted by the rise in world oil prices , continued to accelerate , and the discrepancy between price rises of 8 per cent and wage rises of 16 per cent over the six months stored up an acute problem of squeezed profitability . |
| 7 | The brothers found that on average over the six months they had incurred costs for advertising , petrol etc. which amounted to £10 for each bed sold . |
| 8 | House sales over the six months went up from 357 units for the previous comparable period to 409 . |
| 9 | Outside , radioactive iodine was regularly released into the atmosphere over the following month . |
| 10 | Over the following months , they pushed through Congress a five-year multidisciplinary research project , one of the world 's most intense examinations of marine pollution , to diagnose the ills of the bay . |
| 11 | OSF/1 was ACE 's primary Unix focus when the initiative was launched amidst much fanfare last year , but over the following months it became clear that DEC was the only major ACE member committed to using the operating system . |
| 12 | This system would be duplicated ad infinitum over the following months . |
| 13 | A beginner starts with about 25 push-ups and then gradually over the following months builds the count up to 100 . |
| 14 | In February 1989 inflation was down to a monthly rate of 3.6 per cent compared with 28.8 per cent in December 1988 and 37 per cent in January 1989 , but accelerated sharply over the following months , reaching a monthly rate of 53.55 per cent by December . |
| 15 | Despite evident internal disagreements on the pace of economic reform , the government on May 14 announced that it had agreed on a programme of unified reforms to be implemented over the following months . |
| 16 | Over the following months , de Gaulle assumed total control over political affairs and substantially reduced Giraud 's authority as Commander-in-Chief . |
| 17 | Over the following months , Jo and her mother received several blows for relatively small offences , and they began to feel afraid of him , always humouring him to prevent trouble . |
| 18 | Influenced by the lower pound , earnings jumped by 22 per cent during the period and over the nine months . |
| 19 | Sales of polymers , healthcare products and agrochemicals improved over the nine months , while sales of organic and industrial products and imaging technologies fell . |
| 20 | But Sealink did admit that their numbers had fallen over the nine months from January 1 to Monday of this week , by 20,755 passengers and 9,644 cars . |
| 21 | On Dec. 2 , as a result of the first all-German general election since November 1932 , Helmut Kohl of CDU , who over the preceding months had presided over the unification of Germany [ see pp. 37761-63 ] , was returned to office as Federal Chancellor . |
| 22 | The Guardian of April 3 reported that over the preceding months Treuhand had become the " focus of growing public anger " and was viewed as the " embodiment of eastern Germany 's economic misery " . |
| 23 | There had been intensive campaigning by the proponents of each city over the preceding months . |
| 24 | More often than not you get a refund cos of course you have personal allowances for a whole year but you 've not er not er lived a whole year as often as not and therefore there usually spaced over the twelve months and you 've paid a bit too much tax if you 've died in the course of the twelve months . |
| 25 | Over the eighteen months I have had the multifasciatus they have showed signs of wanting to breed but have failed to do so . |
| 26 | When the LI% was analysed before and after the trial ( Table II ) it was found that the total LI% or compartmental LI% did not change over the one month period in the absence of supplementation ( Figs 1 and 3 ) . |
| 27 | This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle . |
| 28 | The travelling chaos of a modern party leader 's election entourage had carried Major within a few miles of the home of the founder of the profession , a few of whose more troublesome contemporary practitioners are said to have caused him much irritation over the 16 months of his premiership . |
| 29 | This was repeated for 10 portfolios over the 420 months between 1931 and 1965 . |
| 30 | Over the 11 months to mid-November 1989 more than 35 concession agreements for oil exploration in the Gulf of Suez , Sinai , the Western Desert , the Delta and the Mediterranean Sea , were signed making 1989 a record year for new agreements ; on June 13 the People 's Assembly ratified 14 concession agreements . |