Example sentences of "but over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But over a period of time , two things disturb this equilibrium : evaporation and infiltration . |
| 2 | Conventional stereo , reproduced from a pair of loudspeakers in front of the listener , produces a less dramatic effect but over a much wider listening area . |
| 3 | ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving . |
| 4 | The third type requires such intervention but over a period of years , usually nearly into adolescence , and often there is never complete resolution . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This group of species lives near rocks , but over a sandy substrate , and all its members utilise the empty shells of the snail Lanistes nyassanus as shelter to some extent . |
| 7 | But over a much wider range than we usually recognize , the signal works without question , because it is a conventional way of answering what would otherwise be ( and may still really be ) difficult or impossibly difficult questions , about the nature of the work and about the appropriate kind of response . |
| 8 | The Andokides Painter experimented with a ‘ white-figure ’ vase : red-figure technique but over a white slip , choosing purely feminine scenes for both sides . |
| 9 | Elsewhere ( as along the western seaboard of North America ) plates were converging and being subducted , but over a great part of the earth 's surface , and my part of it in particular , the plates were gently moving apart as the Atlantic formed from its median ridge . |
| 10 | As with other aspects of the landscape , it was the slow , largely undocumented social and economic changes that spelt the death of such settlements , not at a single stroke but over a long period . |
| 11 | I want a powder , a potion , one which will not kill immediately but over a period of months , undetected by her or any physician . ’ |
| 12 | Development of all major new weapons programmes would nevertheless continue but over a longer time span . |
| 13 | Erm looking interestingly enough , at the Hambleton figures of I understand these are new purchases , which is a bit surprising perhaps , but over a two year period there erm this is table three in Hambleton 's submission , there 's a reference to the number of erm the origin of house purchases from Cleveland in Hambleton , and it would be seen from there that Cleveland erm produced a hundred and fourteen dwellings , that 's purchases of Cleveland residents in the Hambleton area erm in nineteen ninety one to ninety three . |
| 14 | But over a substantial fraction of the wake width , turbulent and non-turbulent motion alternate . |
| 15 | But over a period of time , erm , they are not directly equivalent , but very nearly so . |
| 16 | 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 . |