Example sentences of "place over a " in BNC.

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31 Comparison of the contents of the first two editions of Craig 's ‘ Geology of Scotland ’ , published in 1965 and 1983 , reveals just how completely and all-pervasively this change took place over a very short period of time .
32 In the United States , a complex wrangle is taking place over a range of possible standards .
33 The result is that melting takes place over a range of temperatures , and this range is a useful indication of sample crystallinity .
34 As weak springs can only stored a fraction of the potential energy that a strong spring can hold , the remainder is lost as heat and if the change from a strong to a weak spring takes place over a period of time , equivalent to the observation time , then the energy loss is detected as mechanical damping .
35 On average , a body is injected with approximately 12–16 pints of the one and a half per cent or two per cent solution and this takes place over a time period of approximately one to two hours .
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