Example sentences of "[noun] over a wide area [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Their secret lies in their enormously elongated toes , which spread their weight over a wide area of lily leaf . |
2 | Audible and visual warnings will attract workers ' attention over a wide area to a potential or actual hazard . |
3 | Attention has centred throughout on the releases of radioactive iodine and its subsequent ingestion over a wide area of Britain and Western Europe . |
4 | An accident in France would no have to be as serious as Chernobyl to imperil life and health over a wide area in France and its heavily populated neighbours . |
5 | The balance between the two varied according to economic circumstances , and it is very difficult for us to reconstruct the nature of these services in detail over a wide area before the thirteenth century . |