Example sentences of "[noun] over a large [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 The relationship between the two concepts of range and amount is perhaps more complex than one might expect , for some local cases get sustained coverage in local newspapers but not get a mention in he nationals , while , on the other hand , some events get a mention over a large number of newspapers on one particular day but never get featured again .
2 As M. W. Eysenck ( 1982 ) points out , unless studies collect data over a large range of different arousal levels , there are relatively few patterns of results which are actually inconsistent with an inverted-U relationship .
3 He was able to extend his sphere of influence over a large area of south-eastern Britain .
4 Again these are fully supplemented by maps , photographs and charts and make an interesting source of reference over a large variety of subject matter .
5 This decline was partly masked in 1920 by an increase in deliveries , but this was because requisitioning was by then taking place over a larger area of the country as a result of the defeat of the White Guard armies .
6 In the succeeding months it became plain that the determination of American leaders to play the key role in shaping the new world order was to clash with the equally determined insistence of the Russians that their interests were of paramount importance over a large part of the globe .
7 Accumulation of observations would allow one to specify statistical properties of the motion , such as the average kinetic and potential energy of the pendulum over a large number of periods ( cf. the statistical specification of turbulent motion , Section 19.2 ) .
8 On the ground Husayn worked to maintain the loyalty of the municipal structure , which remained in place after Israel 's occupation , through subsidies and through Israel 's open bridge policy , which in addition to relieving the pressures on the West Bank population , gave him considerable control over a large proportion of that population .
9 In the years following the Second World War the European colonial powers retained control over a large number of military and naval bases among their colonies .
10 Many times more people have moved out of the big state hospitals over a larger number of years and a great deal more research on outcomes has been done .
11 A large area , part wooded and part a rocky summit , situated just north of Broombriggs on B.591 , providing a fine viewpoint over a large part of the Midlands .
12 Traffic experts are predicting jams and misery over a large part of the region because of a bridge which is suffering from structural corrosion .
13 This dispersive approach is different from that pursued in France where the nuclear industry has been maintained as an integrated entity with mixed government/private ownership but with Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique , AEA 's equivalent , in a commanding position over a large part of it .
14 From up here he had a panoramic view over a large part of the course and as he was in the last row could see behind as well as forward .
15 On the centre pages I found a huge black and white photograph of a Hercules aircraft disgorging paratroopers over a large expanse of grassland somewhere in Africa .
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