Example sentences of "over a [noun] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.

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1 And yet , over a century after Jack The Ripper 's grisly murders — so foul that simple descriptions would make you puke — no-one is any the wiser about his identity …
2 This success lies behind his translation to Canterbury in the following year ; thereafter , until his death in 1381 , he presided over a period of taxation the scale of which exceeded even that of the early years of the reign .
3 By using examples taken at random over a period of years the following list has been assembled :
4 Where information , particularly of a detailed nature , is to be collected over a period of time the panel has clear attractions .
5 Over a period of time the effects of changes in personal circumstances and company policy mean that a viable partnership will need to recruit new partners and plan for effective induction .
6 This does not add much to the cost of the order , and over a period of time the extra components build up into a useful stock of parts .
7 The masculine energy is made available , and over a period of time the woman can crystallize that energy into a bond that will hold fast .
8 Over a period of time the system can deteriorate , suffer interference , misalignments , and indifferent maintenance .
9 Over a period of time the particles settle .
10 Over a period of weeks the different teams meet to review and plan ahead .
11 Over a number of sessions the proportion of subjects showing a right-ear preference for verbal stimuli tends to increase due to the greater probability of change among subjects showing an initial left ear advantage ( Blumstein , Goodglass and Tartter , 1975 ; Shankweiler and Studdert-Kennedy , 1975 ) .
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