Example sentences of "[coord] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This does not add much to the cost of the order , and over a period of time the extra components build up into a useful stock of parts . |
| 32 | The masculine energy is made available , and over a period of time the woman can crystallize that energy into a bond that will hold fast . |
| 33 | The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving . |
| 34 | A programme of restoration back to full working order followed and over a period of 18 months , it was stripped , restored and rebuilt to its present immaculate condition . |
| 35 | In both cases you have to find a deposit , and over a period of time pay off what is , in effect , a loan . |
| 36 | The place was besieged , and over a period of months , including a winter , the English grip tightened . |
| 37 | Also studied were the consistency of performance of individuals within and between topics , between mode of assessment and over a period of time . |
| 38 | The intention here was to allow the interviewer to simulate a conversation and over a period move towards a more symmetrical interactive relationship so that this interviewing style came to resemble participant observation . |
| 39 | They were already used to using signs , and over a period the handlers picked them up . ’ |
| 40 | In Woodrow , it was held that affray is a continuing offence , so that where an indictment charged the defendants with a single offence and particularised several incidents that had occurred at different places and over a period of several hours , the indictment was not bad for duplicity . |
| 41 | This stage is followed by a search for means to implement the desired change and over a period of time a cycle of problems are handled by this method . |
| 42 | Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective . |
| 43 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 44 | ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving . |
| 45 | But over a period of time , two things disturb this equilibrium : evaporation and infiltration . |
| 46 | The third type requires such intervention but over a period of years , usually nearly into adolescence , and often there is never complete resolution . |
| 47 | I want a powder , a potion , one which will not kill immediately but over a period of months , undetected by her or any physician . ’ |
| 48 | But over a period of time , erm , they are not directly equivalent , but very nearly so . |
| 49 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |