Example sentences of "build up [adv] over " in BNC.

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1 A deep depression with a centre varying between 968 and 978 millibars moved from the Faroes to the mouth of the Elbe , while behind it a ridge of high pressure built up strongly over the Atlantic .
2 I suppose it built up slowly over the years … ’
3 Begin by exercising moderately for 5–10 minutes per day , and build up gradually over a period of a month .
4 It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing .
5 Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia .
6 erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years .
7 Those over forty should build up slowly over several months before arriving at a suggested target of half an hour three times a week of vigorous exercise , which can include dancing , squash , tennis , running , or energetic swimming .
8 Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation .
9 Always exercise gently to begin with , building up gradually over a period of time and remembering that there is never any need to strain yourself .
10 Whilst the earliest phase lasted only a few minutes after the training trial , and the intermediate ones declined within the hour , long-term memory seemed to build up slowly over the first hour after training , and protein synthesis inhibitors would no longer disrupt it if they were administered more than an hour after the training ( Figure 10.1 )
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