Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] over a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Bush did not indicate how the changes , which were to be phased in over a five-year period at a cost of up to $100,000 million , would be financed . |
| 32 | Advisers say the change — aimed at meeting European Community moves towards equality for the sexes — should be phased in over a 15-year period . |
| 33 | The tax will be phased in over a three-year period from July 1994 . |
| 34 | SCOTVEC 's new system of Advanced Courses will be phased in over a three year period . |
| 35 | The duty , which was to have been phased out over a nine-month period to March 1991 , was dismissed as ineffective because shoppers would be able to circumvent it by buying in the West after July 1 . |
| 36 | The last pitch was a real sting in the tail , but the perplexing moves up a short crack in a wall soon succumbed to brute force and determination and I swung exultantly over a final bulge on the monstrous , weathered holds to sit satiated on the plateau , soaking up the sun until Alec pulled over , grinning with triumph . |
| 37 | On the other hand , they do favour a horizontal row of dots moving horizontally over a vertical row of dots moving vertically . |
| 38 | The cheapest and most practical method was for the shikari to sit out over a tethered bait in a tree hide or machan waiting for the tiger to appear . |
| 39 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 40 | Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time . |
| 41 | This level of pay was never conceived of as being a realizable objective for a statutory minimum wage that would be brought in over a short period of time . |
| 42 | He did this willingly and without complaint , often coming in over a complete weekend in order to have all the new cards out by the end of August which was largely achieved . ’ |
| 43 | The two square yards of broadloom devoted to the open hallway were almost blocked by a large bamboo plant , made of plastic , which waved majestically over a little fountain cascading water over two plastic shell-shaped basins which miraculously never overflowed . |
| 44 | We broke up over a personal misunderstanding . |
| 45 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 46 | The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process . |
| 47 | For Constantine , in short , the Messiah was precisely what the Messiah had been for Jews in Palestine at the dawn of the Christian era — a ruler , a sovereign , a warrior leader like David and Solomon , who reigned wisely over a temporal realm , established unity in his domains , consolidated a nation and people with divine sanction to support him . |
| 48 | More than 100 jobs have been axed , a For Sale sign has gone up over a large slice of its assets and chief executive Andros Stakis has been ousted . |
| 49 | People would not welcome a move from their home and if closure went ahead over a long period of time staff would inevitably leave . |
| 50 | In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time . |
| 51 | They were sitting together over a rough table in a room in a farmhouse outside Abergavenny . |
| 52 | Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical . |
| 53 | There is no , if you like , no mileage to be gained in two important Local Authorities falling out over a particular issue . |
| 54 | ‘ But poisons that would only kill if taken regularly over a long period of time , do they exist ? ’ |
| 55 | To his surprise , when they got to the pub , he found Valerie Cass sitting there over a large gin . |
| 56 | Lear 's birds fill the page , stalking warily or glowering protectively over a half-dead prey ; his eagle owl , perhaps the most famous of all , glares menacingly from the shadows of twilight , its great yellow eyes mirrored by a lull moon . |
| 57 | ‘ The commitment to fund a rolling programme in County Durham is also very good news as this will enable us to plan ahead over a three-year period rather than on a year to year basis as has been the case . |
| 58 | These dimensions will offer just over a square metre or 11 sq ft of sail , more than enough for a kilobear . |
| 59 | The first fairway extends up over a gentle rise and into a forest of huge , native trees . |
| 60 | There are , however , instances where fixed term contracts are renewed automatically over a considerable period of time and can reasonably be described as ‘ rolling ’ contracts . |