Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] over a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 2 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 3 | The chicken , which she next drew from the fridge , had , so the label proclaimed , ranged freely over a district of France before being hygienically and humanely slaughtered and packed . |
| 4 | You are able to collect the information detailed below over a number of informal visits , and are now required to present your preliminary conclusions and recommendations for Davenport 's consideration . |
| 5 | There are still a quarter of a million unemployed people in Scotland who are testimony to the dreadful human misery caused by over a decade of Tory rule and the terminal decline of the UK economy , ’ he said . |
| 6 | She saw sacks of meal and gleaming dates , boxes of over-ripe figs with the seeds oozing out , and she stepped carefully over a stream of something unthinkable that ran down the centre of the street . |
| 7 | ‘ As soon as you stepped out of the car I knew something was wrong , ’ her friend confided later over a cup of tea . |
| 8 | And that , of course , she decided ruefully over a cup of coffee at the kitchen breakfast-bar , would have played right into his hands , seeming to justify his opinion of her . |
| 9 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 10 | The seasons , if they are important enough , can grab people 's attention in the way that you would n't if the programmes just went out over a period of 16 or 20 weeks . |
| 11 | The trouble which a political interest could encounter , however , came when friends of the political interest fell out over a choice of minister , and in a country which took its religion seriously that was all too easy to do , and that in turn opened the road to intrigue by political enemies . |
| 12 | They emerged gradually over a period of half a century , culminating in his book Two New Sciences , which was first published in 1638 , almost a century after the publication of Copernicus 's major work . |
| 13 | Le Dimanche — Sunday afternoon whiled away over a game of cards . |