Example sentences of "[vb past] place over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Field-work took place over a twelve-month period between 1987 and 1988 , and was sufficiently prolonged to avoid the criticism which brief ‘ smash-andgrab ’ ethnographies often deserve . |
| 2 | The rebuilding of the old manor took place over a period of about five years and was probably finished in about 1727 . |
| 3 | The biggest event organised by the Trust this year took place over the weekend of 23 and 24 June when the countryside was brought to Salford in Greater Manchester . |
| 4 | In the women 's movement , too , a significant revolution took place over the same decade . |
| 5 | But most of the changes that did occur took place over 1950–70 ; since the latter year there appears to have been little change in the relative positions of the different republics and provinces in social product per head . |
| 6 | Considerable discussion then took place over the remainder of the report , resulting in three divisions and the wording suggested by Elcho being adopted in every case . |
| 7 | Few interceptions took place over the next few days as the R.A.F. licked its wounds . |
| 8 | Unlike the 1991 Rugby World Cup , which took place over a whole month , not to mention the three months build-up , thereby allowing the sponsors to develop their marketing strategy over a long period of time , the World Sevens tournament is a three-day event , with the commercial potential of a ‘ Market blink ’ , as he puts it . |
| 9 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 10 | My first little skirmish took place over a film , one about rape . |
| 11 | THE FIRST steam gala that the Birmingham Railway Museum at Tyseley has organised in several years , took place over the weekend of Saturday-Sunday November 28/29th , and was acclaimed as an outstanding success in every respect . |
| 12 | In the end , the main argument took place over an amendment from Italy that would limit the single assembly to the EEC , WEU and the Council of Europe . |
| 13 | ZEPPELINS of World War One by Wilbur Cross , tells of the little-known aerial battles that took place over England during the Great War , when Germany attempted to paralyse the British by dropping tons of bombs from a fleet of super-Zeppelins . |
| 14 | It was at Montreuil in Ponthieu that a series of Anglo-French meetings took place over the issues of sovereignty and homage in 1306 . |
| 15 | Discussion took place over Korea and it was agreed that trusteeship was the appropriate policy to adopt . |
| 16 | In July 1973 , after months of preliminary exchanges , a meeting of foreign ministers agreed to proceed with such talks which took place over the next two years . |
| 17 | The details of the story of this major theory change , a change that took place over one and a half centuries , do not lend support to the methodologies advocated by the inductivists and falsificationists , and indicate a need for a different , more complexly structured account of science and its growth . |
| 18 | On 5–7 May , as Tito 's forces neared the Slovene capital Ljubljana , the mass exodus referred to earlier , which included many civilians , took place over the nearby Austria border to the north . |
| 19 | There is no doubt that the transformation in style and approach which took place with Out in 1964 represents a fundamental reconception of the novel on Brooke-Rose 's part , but the technical and conceptual development which took place over the course of her early fiction points the way to the change to come . |
| 20 | My first — secretly arranged — meeting with Harrison Ngau took place over early morning tea . |
| 21 | The Chinese attack on Vietnam in March 1979 gave the USSR the leverage to activate this agreement ; a gradual extension of Soviet facilities in Cam Ranh Bay took place over the following years . |
| 22 | But the change was n't radical , it took place over a period of er I would suggest er maybe about six or seven years . |
| 23 | The Customs and Excise , with all its ancillary departments , were forced to re-structure their systems to bring them into line with European countries and this reorganisation took place over the next few years . |
| 24 | Telford 's intensive subject assessment , co-ordinated in college by Fiona Baikie , took place over a fortnight at the end of November 1989 . |
| 25 | In the beginning , the race took place over a course that included three brooks and a five foot stone wall amongst the 29 jumps . |
| 26 | The negotiations took place over the course of a year between autumn 1990 and summer 1991 , and could be characterized as the centre progressively conceding to the demands of the republics for more independence . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Well-planned and executed night attacks on machinery and factories took place over wide districts and a long time span by men who , having set governmental authority at defiance , disappeared back into the community by day . |
| 29 | To give details of the internal organisation of each of the foreign offices of Europe , and of the endless changes in detail which took place over more than a century , would be wearisome and repetitive . |
| 30 | A number of important changes took place over the 18 months . |