Example sentences of "the [noun pl] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the fund of damages is likely to be substantial , including future nursing costs and the like as well as loss of earnings , an accountant 's evidence can help the court to decide the multiplier , as well as the multiplicand , for example in the case of a one-man business where the accountant has been concerned with the accounts over a number of years and is in a position to give an expert opinion as to the future prospects of the business . |
| 2 | It was then Gedanken realized that all along she had been hearing the voices of the beetles over a loudspeaker . |
| 3 | The Manor was an important landmark during the annual and ancient custom called the ‘ perambulation of Purton ’ , during Rogation Tide in May , when a large procession , headed by the clergyman , would beat the bounds over a period of two days . |
| 4 | Tower Hamlets , acting under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act of 1967 , required Chetnik to pay rates on the buildings over a period of some years during which they were unoccupied because tenants could not be found . |
| 5 | These courses are run over several months , giving participants time to try out the suggestions over a period of time . |
| 6 | Observing a heated argument among the players over a game of cards , Chapman thought that if they put as much consideration and earnestness into their football , their game could only improve . |
| 7 | The sample , placed in a dialyser bag , is suspended in distilled or deionized water , circulation of which encourages osmotic exchange of the salts over a period of several days . |
| 8 | It should be remembered that it is the consistency of the results over a number of items and not isolated examples which suggest that the context favours girls . |
| 9 | Ten of the other holes are 400 yards or less , some appreciably so , and if your irons are on-song , you 'll be whistling for birdies and thinking of doubling the bets over a lunchtime pint . |
| 10 | Used to moving fast on jobs , Fitzgerald took to his heels and outran the bees over a couple of hundred yards . |
| 11 | The Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth , chaired by Lord Diamond and originally set up by the Wilson government in 1974 to appease the unions over a wealth tax , made a series of oracular judgements which confirmed the progress which was generally assumed . |
| 12 | Further on , a hundred yards off-shore , as if he were walking on the water , his companion disturbed the glass-still lagoon as he strode through the shallows over a sand bar . |
| 13 | On July 10 the Országgyülés ( National Assembly ) passed by 194 to 95 votes , with 23 abstentions , a law for the return of property to the churches over a period of 10 years . |