Example sentences of "[vb -s] place over " in BNC.

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1 Centrepiece of the design is the tall , rectangular flat diaphragm , which , produces all the treble information , and the midband area above 200Hz ( in fact there 's a slow handover which takes place over a matter of octaves ) .
2 Once a year , usually in September , the BKA holds its convention and A.G.M. which takes place over a weekend .
3 It now takes place over the weekend of April 24 and 25 .
4 Instead , a number of small changes in status and recognitions of the progress towards adult status takes place over a number of years .
5 Because as recognized a century ago by Ravenstein ( 1885 , 1889 ) most movement takes place over shorter distances , migration 's role in population change becomes more important as the spatial scale of analysis descends .
6 It is possible that the entire text is a combination of description and recollection from the perspective of a single flight , in which case it takes place over the course of a few hours , the time it takes to read it .
7 The ballot is organised by an independent teller — usually the Electoral Reform Society — and takes place over several weeks .
8 During the fluent phase , planning takes place over a larger unit than the clause .
9 In the U.S. , trading takes place over the counter on the basis of prices quoted on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation ( NASDAQ ) system .
10 It is a function of family breakdown , which takes place over generations and whose consequences the Government will have to tackle .
11 If we were just gon na bolt together the two unions then that may be able to be done in a couple of years or so , but if we 're trying to build something better , then we 're talking about a project that takes place over several years .
12 The result is that melting takes place over a range of temperatures , and this range is a useful indication of sample crystallinity .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 The action takes place over one disastrous weekend full of rain , fights and missing room service .
16 ‘ Villette ’ starts in the narrator 's girlhood , and takes place over several years ; ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ is over a period of three or four days .
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