Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has to do with short-term planning and public accounting systems , which mean that , although money can in theory be voted for projects over a number of years , in practice , it usually arrives in annual dribs and drabs . |
| 2 | The idea of an evening get-together for clients over a couple of drinks in the Branch is obviously a non-Banker concept . |
| 3 | After that going for gold involves participating in a wide range of activities over a period of at least 18 months . |
| 4 | A number of steps involving work on crystals , yeast cells , thymus cells and mouse cells , in relation to transmissions of patterns over a distance , led to amazing discoveries . |
| 5 | One can think of laying a graph of words over a graph of lower-level units such as phonemes . |
| 6 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 7 | Bjornbye could then step straight in against Crystal Palace in the Coca-Cola Cup replay on Tuesday despite fears over a head injury suffered a week ago . |
| 8 | Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years . |
| 9 | Undertake the management of the care of a group of patients over a period of time and organise the appropriate support service . |
| 10 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 11 | The period affects all young people and involves a series of stages over a number of years , which are influenced by social and economic status . |
| 12 | Other studies have surveyed panels of respondents over a period of time — though few have physiological measures of health ( such as changes in blood pressure ) or doctors diagnoses , and most use self-report questionnaires of one sort or another . |
| 13 | This study focuses upon a number of children over a period of up to 40 months beginning early in their final year at school and covering the transitional period that follows . |
| 14 | What is more insidious is the lack of guidance on the levels of accuracy to be expected or , where aggregate data are supplied ( for example , the sum or average of the values at a number of points over an area ) statements about the variability of these values within the area are exceptional . |
| 15 | The star of the Volkswagen adverts , who earns £1,000 a day , has paid only £21.50 of fees over a court case , says the company . |
| 16 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |
| 17 | The project will examine the religious activities of women over an area of Northern Greece . |
| 18 | This seems to be at variance with John Jones where a number of incidents over a period were held to be duplicitously charged as a single count of affray . |
| 19 | In addition , HARPY limited the average number of competitors over a stretch of speech and also constrained their identity , thereby ensuring that the items were easily discriminable as measured by their acoustic match scores . |
| 20 | His leader 's menace and awe was able to transmit itself thousands of miles over a telephone line , such was his presence . |
| 21 | Men crawled over the area like ants over an anthill , and several small handcarts rolled along here and there . |
| 22 | Australian Test umpire Peter McConnell is suing the Daily Telegraph Mirror for damages over an article by Sunil Gavaskar in which the former Indian batsman made comments in some of the umpiring decisions in the Sydney Test , in which McConnell and Steve Randell officiated . |
| 23 | Girls have been seen in Italy , spinning with spindles over a balcony , while their sisters sat knitting below , which lends support to such a theory . |
| 24 | maintaining contact with families over a period of time |
| 25 | Even after living with Apaches over a month and after all the things they must have done to her . |
| 26 | For example , banks grant personal loans to customers to be repaid in instalments over a set number of years ( typically six months to five years ) . |
| 27 | The purchaser of a life assurance contract does not make one payment at the beginning of the contract but pays a premium in instalments over a number of years . |
| 28 | This is a major project which will be introduced in phases over a number of years . |
| 29 | It is of critical importance with respect to the registration of company charges since charges created by a company over its assets are treated differently from charges over a company 's assets arising other than by the creation of the company . |
| 30 | Storage space had to be found for this unusually large collection of books which arrived in batches over a period of weeks . |