Example sentences of "over a large number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relationship between the two concepts of range and amount is perhaps more complex than one might expect , for some local cases get sustained coverage in local newspapers but not get a mention in he nationals , while , on the other hand , some events get a mention over a large number of newspapers on one particular day but never get featured again . |
| 2 | In the years following the Second World War the European colonial powers retained control over a large number of military and naval bases among their colonies . |
| 3 | Accumulation of observations would allow one to specify statistical properties of the motion , such as the average kinetic and potential energy of the pendulum over a large number of periods ( cf. the statistical specification of turbulent motion , Section 19.2 ) . |
| 4 | I have high hopes that , over a large number of generations , the wild insects will actually cause the evolution , in the computer , of flowers . |
| 5 | Many times more people have moved out of the big state hospitals over a larger number of years and a great deal more research on outcomes has been done . |