Example sentences of "of [noun pl] over a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that going for gold involves participating in a wide range of activities over a period of at least 18 months . |
| 2 | One can think of laying a graph of words over a graph of lower-level units such as phonemes . |
| 3 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 4 | Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years . |
| 5 | Undertake the management of the care of a group of patients over a period of time and organise the appropriate support service . |
| 6 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 7 | The period affects all young people and involves a series of stages over a number of years , which are influenced by social and economic status . |
| 8 | Other studies have surveyed panels of respondents over a period of time — though few have physiological measures of health ( such as changes in blood pressure ) or doctors diagnoses , and most use self-report questionnaires of one sort or another . |
| 9 | This study focuses upon a number of children over a period of up to 40 months beginning early in their final year at school and covering the transitional period that follows . |
| 10 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |
| 11 | The project will examine the religious activities of women over an area of Northern Greece . |
| 12 | In addition , HARPY limited the average number of competitors over a stretch of speech and also constrained their identity , thereby ensuring that the items were easily discriminable as measured by their acoustic match scores . |