Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] [adj] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appearance of the new form was an abrupt event and the product was quite stable over a period of years . |
| 2 | But the transformation was quite extraordinary over the festive season , and the team deserved to be in that position by the end of their campaign . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the French boasted they could make a neutron bomb , the US was still anguished over the spy story of Cheltenham as Prime got 35 years ' rumours of Brezhnev 's death proved true . |
| 4 | Les Worthington was so distressed over the disappearance of his Border Collie , Ben , that he enlisted the help of clairvoyant Pam Malkin — and found him ! |
| 5 | He found first that ROI was remarkably stable over time at the company level , but that it showed considerable variation over time for individual businesses ( i.e. the SBUs ) . |
| 6 | And in spite of considerable growth the composition of residential settlement was remarkably stable over time . |
| 7 | They estimated y ( the extra term that appears in the no-arbitrage condition of a geometric index discussed in Section 5.2.9 ) , using the returns for the most recent 20 days , and found the resulting estimate was reasonably stable over time at an annual rate of 5.77% . |
| 8 | Under the Kettering Scheme , the sequence of these and other similar developments was remarkable and the combination of the unflagging effort by Miss Green and the guiding influence of Miss Stocks was demonstrably successful over several years . |
| 9 | The chief argument for putting the Callovian in the Upper Jurassic was that this stage was markedly transgressive Over a large part of the Soviet Union and that , therefore , this was a natural break such as one might expect at a major stratigraphical boundary . |