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Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands ; his journeys including trips to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance surpassing threefold his near-contemporary Marco Polo.
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Over a temperature range from 25 to 200 Af and at pressures up to 250 atm, an overload of 300 psi, applied for a period of one day, results in an uncertainty in the pressure of, at most, one millimeter of mercury.
Over a relatively short period of time, usually about four to twelve weeks, the worker must be able to shift the focus, back and forth, between immediate external stressful exigencies ( `` precipitating stress '' ) and the key, emotionally relevant issues ( `` underlying problem '' ) which are, often in a dramatic preconscious breakthrough, reactivated by the crisis situation, and hence once again amenable to resolution.
Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).
Over a 40 years period there would be a difference greater than 780, 000 miles.
Over the period 1858 to 1861, John McDouall Stuart led six expeditions north from Adelaide into the outback, culminating in successfully reaching the north coast of Australia and returning, without the loss of any of the party's members ' lives.
Over a long period of time, the slightly denser regions of the nearly uniformly distributed matter gravitationally attracted nearby matter and thus grew even denser, forming gas clouds, stars, galaxies, and the other astronomical structures observable today.
Over the course of the Classical period, " symphonies " and concertos developed and were presented independently of vocal music.
Over a period of 332 days it reaches a maximum apparent magnitude of 3-visible to the naked eye-and dips to a minimum magnitude of 10, invisible to the unaided eye.
Over the intervening period much trade had been lost overseas.
Over the same period, the proportion of chief editor positions held by women increased from 22 % to 70 %.
Over this period, the other directors speeded up, but so did Griffith.
Over this period, February 29 falls on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday 13 times each ; 14 times each on Friday and Saturday ; and 15 times each on Monday and Wednesday.
Over this period, except for the war years, during which he served with the United States Air Force, he developed British Guiana Airways Ltd. ( registered 27 May, 1938 ) and operating regular internal services since 1939.
Over the same period that Hellenism was spreading through the Mediterranean world, northern and western Europe were dominated by the La Tène culture, a precursor to the Celts that would populate the same area during the Roman age.
Over a 75 year period the Ottoman Turks provided 33 governors and Libya remained part of the empire — although at times virtually autonomous — until Italy invaded it in 1911 in the Italo-Turkish War, as the Ottoman Empire was collapsing.
Over a period of months the wall was rebuilt using concrete, and buildings were demolished to create a " death zone " in view of East German guards armed with machine guns.
Some major works composed during this period include Wavemaker ( 1977 ), Phrygian Gates for solo piano ( 1977 ), Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), Common Tones in Simple Time ( 1979 ), Harmonium ( 1980 – 81 ), Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ), Light Over Water ( 1983 ), Harmonielehre ( 1984 – 85 ), The Chairman Dances ( 1985 ), Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), and Nixon in China ( 1985 – 87 ).
Over the same general period, some 500 or more non-ecclesiastical labyrinths were constructed in Scandinavia.
Over the period 2001-2004 the mean GDP real growth was 0. 4 %
Over 1, 000 Huguenots were transported to Martinique during this period, usually under miserable and crowded ship conditions that caused many of them to die en route.
Over $ 14 billion was spent or loaned during the postwar period through the end of 1947, and is not counted as part of the Marshall Plan.
Over the colonial period, cheese making was modified to suit the mixed European-indigenous tastes of Mexicans, varying by region.
Over a period of about 30 years, from 1880 to 1910, the nail-making process was almost completely automated.
Over a two-year period, students participate in six component areas ( Fall Retreat, Mentors, Leadership Theory and Practice Course, Skill Builders!
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Over the next thirty years, the population rose to 18, 000.
Over the subsequent thirty years several new games based on the Tékumel setting were published, but to date none have met with commercial success.
Over thirty elementary and primary schools and over ten high schools make up the educational base of Toruń.
Over 200 Hall thrusters have been flown on Soviet / Russian satellites in the past thirty years.
Over thirty of the bricks were stamped with the cartouche of Menkheperre, the pre-nomen of Thutmose III.
Over thirty different minerals were extracted from this site, although gold was the primary source of profit.
Over the next thirty years the building was enlarged with a north and south wing.
Over thirty buildings in downtown Yates Center, centering on Courthouse Square, are included in the Yates Center Courthouse Square Historic District.
Over the last thirty or so years, West Newbury has developed from a rural farming town into an affluent community.
Over the past thirty years, a large number of immigrants from the Middle East ( especially Yemen ) and South Asia ( especially Bangladesh ) have moved to the city.
Over thirty had been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, including Vincent Capodanno a Navy chaplain in Vietnam and, more recently, Jared Monti and Salvatore Giunta for service in Afghanistan.
Over the first thirty years, more than 250 houses and stables were built in Tuxedo Park, as well as over 100 homes, retail stores, and service establishments in the so-called hamlet.
Over thirty still stand and many are on the National Register of Historic Places.
Over the past thirty years or so, however, as a new generation has appeared, there has been an increasing amount of revisionist criticism directed at Toscanini.
Over a period of thirty years from 1586, Nurhaci, a chieftain of the Jianzhou Jurchens, united the Jurchen tribes, which was later renamed Manchu by his son Hung Taiji.
Over the next few years, The Vines gigged infrequently and remained relatively unknown, even in their hometown, yet by the beginning of 2001 they had amassed a repertoire of over thirty songs.
Over sixty percent of the population is under the age of thirty and the average age is twenty two years.
Over the next thirty years, he expanded Bechtel into a huge and successful engineering company with operations all over the world.
Over the past thirty years, with the popularity of varietal labeling, semi-generic names have largely fallen out of use.
Over the course of the thirty years or so related in the novel, the family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town of Jefferson, and many of them die tragically.
Over the next thirty years, he covered eleven conflicts and reported from eighty countries, making his name with reports from wars and conflicts in Vietnam, Middle East, Nigeria, Angola, and in Northern Ireland ( during the " Troubles ").
Over the following thirty years many climbs were made using this method before the ladder fell into disrepair.
Over thirty years after Angelou began writing her life story, she completed the sixth and final autobiography in her series of six, A Song Flung Up to Heaven, in 2002.
Over time, Riblet raised more tramways in the booming mining district, building thirty aerial tramways in the next ten years.
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