Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] over [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calculating the expected yield from a new machine , however , is not easy because yields are spread over a number of years in the future . |
| 2 | The teacher in charge is flustered over the number of boys who sloped off to buy food . ’ |
| 3 | As a result , drawings are phased over a number of years and are granted in accordance with the successful attainment of the agreed programme . |
| 4 | Assuming no overall change in the CAA 's activities , no cross-subsidy , and a policy of full cost recovery of actual work done , we estimate that the additional cost to our sector of the industry would mean an increase in all AOC charges and C o A charges of more than 1,000 per cent — clearly a preposterous situation which would effectively kill off our AOC sector even if the increase was spread over a number of years , and would thus be self-defeating since it would leave the airlines to pay more of the CAA 's overheads than they do now . |
| 5 | Enthusiasm was sustained over a number of weeks , read out in instalments to the class and eventually produced as a book . |