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

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1 Other changes in structure developed more slowly , but although the pattern looked different over a period of a few years , analogues of the basic groups seem to have been present ever since the phenomenon of the contemporary football fan arose in the middle to late 1960s .
2 Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington .
3 It 's been like this over a number of issues ever since the children were small , but it 's got worse since they 've been teenagers .
4 It catalogued ‘ positively dangerous ’ work practices , poor management , inadequate training and supervision and inherent weakness in the safety culture of BR in a list of 16 separate ‘ relevant errors ’ where things had gone wrong over a number of years .
5 Graphical treatment suggests that this effect is linear over an interval between the blackout and whiteout points , or possibly a curve with a fairly large radius of curvature .
6 Too much sunlight might impress upon me the idea of how much more agreeable it would be out of doors rather than hunched over a sheet of almost blank paper .
7 A particular scene appeared before her eyes : her father is sitting hunched over a pile of torn photographs , and Agnes 's sister is shouting at him : ‘ Why have you torn up Mother 's pictures ?
8 Later , the project was able to borrow a more advanced flux-gate magnetometer and the preliminary conclusions from Rodney Hale , an experienced electronics engineer , as a result of further work , are that there is a magnetic field within the circle which fluctuates relative to that outside over a period of hours .
9 But drinking too much over a period of months or years damages far more than the nervous system .
10 If you are unsuccessful over a period of time there 's always a chance you will part company . ’
11 The Test of Professional Competence , for building surveyors , first introduced in 1973 , has remained unchanged over a period during which many other changes both technological and sociological have taken place within the Division .
12 The loans would be repayable over a period of 20 years at 3.5 per cent interest .
13 Rudolph Ackermann issued some fifty books with coloured plates , including the well-known Repository of Arts , Literature , Commerce , Manufacture , and Politics , which appeared monthly over a period of nearly twenty years .
14 The cause of deterioration is mainly due to the covering becoming thin and brittle because of weathering i.e. the action of heat and cold over a period of time .
15 This proved difficult and Josef Vissarionovich had to be blown up little by little over a period of two weeks .
16 The position of the Central Authority was strong : they were responsible for the Boards as a whole breaking-even over a period of years ; their approval was required for capital and current expenditure ; and they raised the capital and controlled the reserves and bank-balances of the Boards .
17 so erm I do n't er I would n't see the point in being too confrontational over an issue like that .
18 By using examples taken at random over a period of years the following list has been assembled :
19 We may explain the fact that the production units of a particular industry have grown larger over a period of time by appealing to the economies this yields , and in doing so claim that a cause ( increase in scale ) occurred because of its propensity to have a certain effect ( economies of scale ) .
20 And so I wake in the night panic stricken over a lack of fuel .
21 Here , however , we write it as an integral over a portion of the 3N-dimensional configuration space represented by the N vectors rj and the 3 coordinates required for the specification of each one .
22 Because the microscope gives an image which is fuzzy over a distance of the size of the wavelength of the light being used , if we want to measure the position more accurately we must decrease the wavelength .
23 ( I am angry over an act of injustice or I wonder at the sight of Niagara Falls or I am pleased with my Christmas present . )
24 The definitive work on sleep norms at different ages is by Robert Williams , Ismet Karacan and Carolyn Hursch from the Florida Sleep Laboratory who recorded the normal sleep patterns of over 200 subjects between three and seventy years of age and older over a period of fifteen years .
25 From a pulpit tee at the fourth , there 's a splendid view of the Mournes and Crossgar 's top two eating houses , and of the four good short holes , the eighth over a pond to a wickedly sloping green is certainly the most intimidating .
26 Scenting the strength of Coleby 's desire for the knife , he had beaten him up from two shillings to ten over a period of three days .
27 THE NORTH coast of Scotland faces the Arctic over a distance of seventy miles and is terminated abruptly by Cape Wrath in the west and Duncansby Head near John o' Groats in the east .
28 Resolution 706 dealt with a partial export resumption , up to a total value of $1.6 billion over a period of six months , to enable Baghdad to import medical supplies and foodstuffs .
29 One MP was sued for alleged libel in June 1978 over a jibe in the supporters .
30 You can work out that over a period of time you would have somewhere in the region of fifteen assignments during the year guaranteed .
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