Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider then this year 's winner , the Mayan Indian peace-worker , Rigoberta Menchu , who has campaigned for the rights of Guatemala 's oppressed indigenous majority for over a decade . |
| 2 | The poll-tax , a fixed annual levy placed on all tax-paying males regardless of age , together with the rent imposed on state peasants , formed the basis of state revenue for over a century . |
| 3 | Earlier Mr Justice Holland told her she was ‘ fundamentally wicked for plotting murder for over a month . |
| 4 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 5 | Brown remained her adviser for over a decade , although she also sought occasional assistance from the painter ( Sir ) Edward Burne-Jones [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | Like her earlier Stand We At Last , which told the story of over a century of Western feminism , Daddy 's Girls shows Zoë Fairbairns to be adept at recreating detail and charting the changes in character 's lives as years pass . |
| 7 | For years , neglected in the centre of Oxford , it 's been a rest-spot for the weary taxi-driver for over a century and now 's lovingly restored and converted into a shop . |
| 8 | One in 12 people who took part in the survey was without the use of their machine for over a fortnight . |
| 9 | The mill also housed a bakehouse on the lower floor , several bake-ovens set in the rear wall being largely intact , surviving as a reminder of what was once an important local trade , carried on at Aston mill for over a century . |
| 10 | After about forty minutes Van Gelder moved up into the bows with a portable six-inch searchlight which , on such a clear night , had an effective range of over a mile . |
| 11 | The conference , the first general feminist-socialist conference for over a decade , attracted over 400 women from across the country . |
| 12 | Because the company has been on its present site for over a century it recognises its responsibilities to the environment and to the local community . |
| 13 | The deputy commander of the first artillery battalion reported that all its cell members had been so busily engaged on operations amongst the civilian population that there had been no meeting for over a month ( they were probably occupied in some of the unsavoury tasks noted earlier by our peasant soldier and his mother ) . |
| 14 | The subjects to be covered were diverse , scanning a period of over a century , but they could be arranged in an approximately chronological order . |
| 15 | She had been working every day for over a month , and had not received a penny for her labour . |
| 16 | The snowdrops at Painswick have been a popular attraction for over a century . |
| 17 | Beccaria 's offer of a less radical alternative , says Jenkins , had the effect of postponing the positivist revolution for over a century . |
| 18 | The measure was primarily designed to raise an additional US$500,000,000 to finance pay increases for 260,000 teachers ( on strike for over a month for an 800 per cent pay rise ) and 85,000 health workers ( on strike for three months for a minimum wage increase of 200 per cent ) . |
| 19 | They can smell the bombykol released by a single female , at a distance of over a mile . |
| 20 | From the river 's edge it stretched back on to the plain for a distance of over a kilometre , and he thought that it must contain well over three thousand men . |
| 21 | With this sensitivity it could easily detect a shrimp from over a metre away for these crustaceans generate tiny electrical fields of up to one thousandth of a volt ( 0.2–1 millivolt ) per centimetre each time they flick their tails . |
| 22 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 23 | The exceptions were in four main areas : in the west during the first onslaughts when the khanate of Kuchum was being eliminated ; in the far north-east against the Chukchis and Karnchatkan Itelmens ( here Russian losses may not have been very severe , but the effects on the aboriginal population were catastrophic ) ; in the south-east in the struggle with the Manchus for domination of the Amur , where the Russians were beaten ; and finally in the south-west against the nomadic horsemen of the steppes who were a thorn in the Russians ' flesh for over a century . |
| 24 | But it appears to me that the whole trend of authority for over a century is clearly against permitting any such investigation . |
| 25 | The Reconciled Dominions had been under the control of Yzordderrex 's Autarch for over a century , and every time Godolphin returned from a trip he had new signs of unrest to report . |
| 26 | Now that the shouting is over and the most homophobic piece of legislation for over a century is on the statute books , lesbians and gays are picking themselves up and asking if our involvement with local government was really worth the effort . |
| 27 | Indeed , there has been widespread belief that management is not really feasible despite the fact that , in terms of producing a naturally-regenerating stand of timber trees without any sign of soil deterioration , there has been success for over a century , beginning with teak in southern Asia . |
| 28 | Often the outfall will be off-site and it may be necessary to provide a storm water sewer of over a mile to achieve an outfall acceptable to the water authority . |
| 29 | You may be amazed that such an obvious shortcoming to a staff plan should have continued to escape my notice , but then you will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time ; one is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event . |
| 30 | ‘ It will be a disaster if the current team is maintained , ’ said the former India captain , whose left-arm spin mesmerised batsmen around the world for over a decade . |