Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 2 | Two veiled female figures leaned in exaggerated mourning over an urn in the Grecian taste of the 1810s . |
| 3 | In Tameside the central department and the local authority were in direct conflict over a matter of administrative feasibility . |
| 4 | There was a major outcry in early February over a decision by officials of the Foreign Affairs and Interior ministries to allow George Habash , the leader of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) , to enter France on Jan. 29 for medical treatment . |
| 5 | JAGUAR and General Motors were last night locked in crucial talks over a deal which would safeguard the luxury car maker from being taken over by the rival US motor giant Ford . |
| 6 | But this implies that a single random increase in aggregate demand in the current period can set up a serially correlated movement or boom in real output over a number of subsequent periods . |
| 7 | In general this rule should only be used as a last resort in legal proceedings over a contract where the parties have failed to make an express provision as to the status of implied terms . |
| 8 | To place a detailed analysis in context it is necessary to look at trends in key figures over a number of years and to make comparisons with other firms in the same industry . |
| 9 | The entire collection will be shown in chronological order over a period of five years and each display will involve the restoration of the objects involved and their addition to a technical catalogue covering every object . |
| 10 | A low pass carries a narrow road from Kinlochewe to the sea , and ranged along its northern side are the two huge masses of Beinn Eighe and Liathach , together extending in intimidating slopes over a distance of ten miles : Munros both , and among the best . |
| 11 | At the Elysee , a spokesman said there could be ‘ modulations ’ in presidential commitments over a period of years , and indicated that the president could take Fabius 's advice in the area of research spending . |
| 12 | It 's just that Mary Connon and Arthur Evans were seen in close confabulation over a drink the Friday before she died . ’ |
| 13 | They are more interested in the search process than in the goal of the search , and record the rise and fall of activity in competing units over a number of processing cycles . |
| 14 | In the case of bulk packages from which the product is likely to be removed in successive quantities over a period of time , separate tests should be carried out to assess the effect of storage in partly filled containers . |
| 15 | Several of both kinds are needed , depending on the student , and are presented either simultaneously or in alternate sequence over a period of time . |
| 16 | Given the existence of a European community , there is no good reason , in equity or commonsense , why a fisherman from Fleetwood or Grimsby should have precedence in Hebridean waters over a fisherman from Hamburg or Brest . |
| 17 | Like many of the other city churches it was destroyed by fire in the eleventh-century , being totally rebuilt ( on the same foundations ) in Romanesque style over a period of two hundred years . |