Example sentences of "[be] [adj] over a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are unsuccessful over a period of time there 's always a chance you will part company . ’ |
| 2 | ( I am angry over an act of injustice or I wonder at the sight of Niagara Falls or I am pleased with my Christmas present . ) |
| 3 | Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington . |
| 4 | The loans would be repayable over a period of 20 years at 3.5 per cent interest . |
| 5 | Thus in the valuable Brockman Iron Formation of the Hamersley Basin , bands about an inch thick are said to be correlatable over an area of some 20000 square miles and even microscopic varves within those bands can be traced over 185 miles . |
| 6 | The European Community has put in place a range of measures which are capable over a period of time of leading to a solution . |
| 7 | Under the Wedgwood Savings Related Share Option Scheme , options were outstanding over a total of 13,974,414 Ordinary Shares at a price of 14.5p Sterling , exercisable under normal circumstances within the period of six months from 14 December 1995 ; over 2,351,041 Ordinary Shares at a price of 29p Sterling , exercisable under normal circumstances within a period of six months from 1 January 1997 or 1 January 1999 , depending on the savings period ; and over 4,896,200 Ordinary Shares at a price of 12.5p Sterling , exercisable under normal circumstances within a period of six months from 1 November 1997 or 1 November 1999 , depending on the savings period . |
| 8 | When an element can exist in two or more allotropic forms each of which is stable over a range of conditions , it is said to exhibit enantiotropy . |
| 9 | Because the microscope gives an image which is fuzzy over a distance of the size of the wavelength of the light being used , if we want to measure the position more accurately we must decrease the wavelength . |
| 10 | Many players , as it happened , were coming near to the age of retirement , so it was possible over a period of six or seven years to make the orchestra young again . |
| 11 | Thus when endothelium was stripped from rabbit aorta in vivo prostacyclin production at the luminal surface of the vessel was virtually absent and recovery of prostacyclin production was slow over a period of 70 days coinciding with the appearance of neointimal cells ( Eldor et al , 1981 ) . |