Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] over a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 200,000 RETs were issued over a very busy summer period . |
| 2 | Amiens is the latest of the group and was built over a comparatively short period ( 1220–88 ) . |
| 3 | As a medley of ‘ traditional British music ’ including Rule Britannia , Greensleeves and The Lincolnshire Poacher was played over a crackly PA , Diana was forced to walk past a tacky display of plastic policemen 's helmets and twee musical boxes shaped like Shakespeare 's cottage . |
| 4 | A glance at the sketch map above will show the general limits of the Byzantine Empire ( which fluctuated greatly during this long period ) , but the influence of the style was exerted over a much greater area : north to Russia , north-west to southern France , east to Armenia and Georgia . |
| 5 | These were ‘ asymmetrical cyclical troughs ’ because recovery of output was spread over a much longer period than its initial loss , and because many factories closed for good in the second recession . |