Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example there were 367 recorded deaths of buzzards over a ten year period , although according to the RSPB the real figure is likely to be ten times that number . |
| 2 | Several were in groups of four , three standing slabs of stone over which a fourth lay as a roof , others lay tumbled in meaningless heaps , but still others seemed to be set in distinguishable lines and circles . |
| 3 | The Congress ( I ) Chief Minister of Karnataka , S. Bangarappa , resigned on Nov. 11 following allegations of corruption over several months ; he was replaced on Nov. 20 by the former state Education Minister Veerappa Moily . |
| 4 | On Mars how many craters greater than 10 km diameter are likely to be produced on a typical 10 6 square kilometre of surface over the next 10 6 years by ( i ) asteroids , ( ii ) comet debris ? |
| 5 | One distinct advantage of metformin over the sulphonylureas in obese Type 2 patients is that it does tend to suppress appetite and certainly therapy is usually associated with weight loss ( Taylor et al , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | One great advantage of asphalt over other forms of sheet roof covering is its tolerance to being ‘ patched ’ in situ . |
| 7 | Moreover , one important advantage of Raman over IR spectroscopy is that water has very weak Raman scattering , and vibrational spectra of aqueous solutions are almost always studied most readily using Raman techniques . |
| 8 | One big piece of deregulation over the past ten years will be hard to reverse : the freeing of interest rates . |
| 9 | It is not about the promotion of one particular kind of experience over another , for this only creates the kinds of divisions so obvious in the political and religious systems of today . |
| 10 | Because there is no oxygen in the tips , methane forms , and each tonne of rubbish can produce up to 250 cubic metres of gas over a ten year period . |
| 11 | Coal , West Germany 's only significant indigenous resource , has enjoyed two drastic changes of fortune over the past twenty years or so . |