Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] over a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been like this over a number of issues ever since the children were small , but it 's got worse since they 've been teenagers . |
| 2 | Scenting the strength of Coleby 's desire for the knife , he had beaten him up from two shillings to ten over a period of three days . |
| 3 | By using examples taken at random over a period of years the following list has been assembled : |
| 4 | These long-term priming effects are explained , within the logogen model , by assuming that after threshold has been reached activation dies down rapidly at first over a period of a second or so , but does not quite reach the normal resting level : there follows a long period during which there is very slow decay of residual activation — a period measured in hours or even days . |
| 5 | Like a camera my restless mind followed the rabid mongrels of Puno as they roamed down the narrow streets , through the tight patchwork of market stalls , over the rubble-lined railway track , to fight at last over a pair of cow 's horns I had seen earlier topping a pile of refuse . |
| 6 | This proved difficult and Josef Vissarionovich had to be blown up little by little over a period of two weeks . |