Example sentences of "[verb] over such a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The idea is to test the hardware and software associated with high-speed communications and investigate the kind of services that could be supplied over such a network .
2 Equally , an area on a graphics tablet can form an extremely flexible form of control ; for example , a diagram could be laid over such a tablet — the user could then see clearly all the control possibilities and by touching the correct part of the diagram he could control the program with ease .
3 In a matter as fundamental as that of the constitution of the church , God could not have allowed that error should have persisted over such a period of time .
4 Your son has suffered a terrible loss — six months is not a long period of time to get over such a trauma .
5 Wars were never cheap , but they were fought over such a span that they became progressively more costly .
6 Westinghouse Electric Corp , Pittsburgh has asked 15 cellular and wireless companies for proposals to build a nationwide wireless data network , the Wall Street Journal reported : the company 's idea is to spur the wireless carriers , individually or as part of a consortium , to develop a network that would make it easier and cheaper for users of laptop and palm-top computers and other devices to send and receive information over the air — and in return , Westinghouse promised to buy a substantial amount of transmission capacity for turn-key communications services that it wants to offer over such a network for various types of companies , such as those that manage large fleets of vehicles and security concerns doing remote monitoring — ‘ We 're trying to get a national packet data network that covers , at a minimum , the 30 largest metropolitan areas , ’ the company declared .
7 Finding locomotives of this scale which will operate over such a distance is not easy .
8 More surprising , to me , about the present sorry situation , is how the old regimes managed to get away for so long with presiding over such a ragbag and still getting all that advertising !
9 Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each .
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