Example sentences of "[vb pp] out over a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other advantages proposed for speech are that the hands are free to perform other tasks and that communication may be carried out over a standard telephone line without the requirement for additional hardware . |
| 2 | Let us take the example of a debt owed to Swannson-on-Wheels for haulage carried out over a four-week period ( throughout the United Kingdom ) on behalf of a computer manufacturer called Computex Ltd . |
| 3 | For maximum usefulness , these measurements must be carried out over a wide range of temperature . |
| 4 | This was carried out over a three-week period using a mixture of interviews and questionnaires covering a representative sample of persons from the CSSU and the departments . |
| 5 | A single one-off move may be disruptive to overall business activities but at least the process is carried out over a short time . |
| 6 | Since it was carried out over a four-month summer period ( May-August ) , the practices of these industries with summer peaks will have been better captured than the practices of those with peaks at other times of the year . |
| 7 | The counterfeit cheques , for sums between £20 and £60 , were made out over a five-month period from March last year . |
| 8 | To anyone raising the argument that perpetual servitude is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel , I will reply that , adding up all the moments of unhappiness of servitude , it may well be even more cruel ; but these are drawn out over an entire lifetime , while the pain of death exerts its whole force in a moment . |
| 9 | The duty , which was to have been phased out over a nine-month period to March 1991 , was dismissed as ineffective because shoppers would be able to circumvent it by buying in the West after July 1 . |
| 10 | Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical . |
| 11 | The light waves emitted from the surface of the star between 10:59:59 and 11:00 , by the astronaut 's watch , would be spread out over an infinite period of time , as seen from the spaceship . |