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

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1 To reach the sixteenth green from the championship tee required a full driver over a lake of 230 yards .
2 If so , this piece of Leicestershire landscape is the product of various forces over a space of four hundred years .
3 The accretion process spins up the neutron star to millisecond periods over a timescale of 10 7 –10 8 yr , and , when mass transfer ceases , the system consists of a millisecond pulsar in a circular orbit with a low-mass companion .
4 One grenade was not found and was lobbed over a wall from one yard to another , injuring 40 prisoners .
5 Manufacturing productivity rose by over a half between 1981 and 1991 .
6 After 48h and over a range of FGF-4 concentrations ( 10 , 50 , 100 or 500ngml -1 , about 0.8–40nM ) , the average length of -AER forelimbs is 50% greater than that of contralateral+AER forelimbs or forelimbs cultured without FGF-4 .
7 Speed of response can be set over a range of five steps , and may well have to be reset because , particularly in graphics mode , if it is too sensitive , loading up several movement commands into the buffer will require having to wait for them to clear .
8 The weights of 66 species of mammalian primary consumers in Gabon are nearly uniformly spread over a range of five orders of magnitude , the 11 shrew species alone covering three .
9 Now although this is a small error , it does amount to 14 metres over a range of 17.57 kilometres , the distance from Bishops Cannings church to the Ogbourne St Andrew circle centre .
10 The LF control raises or lowers the level below around 160Hz over a range of +4 to -6dB , making the sound correspondingly fuller or thinner ; the HF offers a similar shaping above 1kHz to help compensate for dull ( overly absorptive ) or bright ( highly reflective ) rooms .
11 Locator systems are very accurate indeed over a range of 6 to 7 feet ( 2 metres ) .
12 Values of ΔH vary slowly over a range from 20 to 120 kJ mol -1 .
13 An agreement would normally embrace a number of interest rate renewal periods of three , six , nine or 12 months over a total of two years .
14 Under the Wedgwood Savings Related Share Option Scheme , options were outstanding over a total of 13,974,414 Ordinary Shares at a price of 14.5p Sterling , exercisable under normal circumstances within the period of six months from 14 December 1995 ; over 2,351,041 Ordinary Shares at a price of 29p Sterling , exercisable under normal circumstances within a period of six months from 1 January 1997 or 1 January 1999 , depending on the savings period ; and over 4,896,200 Ordinary Shares at a price of 12.5p Sterling , exercisable under normal circumstances within a period of six months from 1 November 1997 or 1 November 1999 , depending on the savings period .
15 Some observer data on incidental catches on four vessels of the red squid fleet , over a total of 67 days ' fishing through the 1980s , showed that 105 marine mammals died in 2870 k ( 2000 miles ) of drift-net - one death for each 27 kind of net .
16 Options are exercisable by the Directors and the Company Secretary over a total of 1,398,330 Ordinary Shares as set out above at prices ranging from IR59.25p to IR£1.28 and from 73pStg to £1.19Stg .
17 The linen canvas was stretched over a chassis with two vertical crossbars and a chamfer bead used to lift the canvas off the chassis .
18 In more recent times it was important for over a century for one reason : it was supported by Sir Isaac Newton .
19 Like Nicholle , Nicholle 's over a couple of thousand saved for a car .
20 Used to moving fast on jobs , Fitzgerald took to his heels and outran the bees over a couple of hundred yards .
21 We operated from fixed points with the vessels motoring or drifting as near to the centre of the basin as possible between Foyers and Urquhart Bay , normally scanning the beam over a sector of 120 o in the direction of travel at a tilt of 30 o to 40 o , to give an effective search to a depth of 160 m .
22 Yet three quarters of all personal car journeys are over a distance of five miles or less .
23 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 .
24 Never has anyone even considered building an international airport , moving all the necessary supplies over a distance of 13 000 kilometres between hemispheres .
25 To confirm that integration had occurred by homologous recombination , the unique BamHI genomic fragments of 5.8 , 7.4 and 8.4kb , which span the junctions of inserted plasmid and genomic sequences , were cloned in lambda EMBL12 , and the regions around the PstI and terminal BamHI sites sequenced over a distance of 2-300 bps .
26 The enormous necropolis is adjacent and contains hundreds of tombs cut down into the tufa over a distance of two miles .
27 From the crest of this ridge , a comprehensive view of the range unfolds : a magnificent panorama especially when the tops are under snow , the long array of peaks being seen across the deep trench of Loch Fannich which forms the southern boundary of the group over a distance of eight miles .
28 Morar , like neighbouring Knoydart , is wild and inhospitable , without roads in the interior and similarly featuring a loch that pierces the mountain barrier over a distance of twelve miles .
29 Another new type of submarine , the Oscar , can fire its 16 cruise missiles over a distance of 500 km to attack ships .
30 At a constant 75mph on the motorway over a distance of 50 miles , it calculated consumption to be an optimistic 28.4mpg .
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