Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] over a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be recommended that independent psychiatric or psychological assessment is made or that the sufferer is admitted for prolonged assessment over a period of time ( ten days or so ) in daily contact with the group of patients already in treatment . |
| 2 | no , not directly , each regional office would have a regional M D , managing director , who would actually be on the board , the divisional board with me , each regional M D would then have his own regional board on which there would be er finance er finance director , sales and marketing director , construction director , land director , not all of them , all seven had that board immediately , some developed that board , grew that board over a couple of years |
| 3 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 4 | We have confirmed this finding over a mean of 69 months follow up , with left ventricular ejection fraction ranging from 42 to 83% . |
| 5 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 6 | Court was wearing a light robe over a pair of pale blue pyjamas . |
| 7 | Ten a.m. , 24th July ; just finished breakfast with the mortar team and relaxing for a few minutes over a mug of hot tea discussing the number of casualties after the heavy shelling last night . |
| 8 | Barclays Bank would not divulge its figures despite repeated requests over a period of three weeks . |
| 9 | He said it would change and tone a man in three five-minute sessions over a period of a week . |
| 10 | These have taken the form of protest meetings , marches and other types of direct action over a variety of issues . |
| 11 | Both the Listening Test and the Grammar Test have been the subject of rigorous research over a number of years , with up to forty different nationalities of students . |
| 12 | As an example of the use to which these options were put in deciding the future lines of investigation in the project , it quickly became apparent by computing improved pictures over a range of plant ages and displaying the changes , that the measure of the changes was never likely to be large , and that the changes were not all in one direction . |
| 13 | An agreement would normally embrace a number of interest rate renewal periods of three , six , nine or 12 months over a total of two years . |
| 14 | In this thesis he describes a meticulous dietary study over a period of several years at the Juliana Children 's Hospital in a patient with coeliac disease , which started in 1936 ! |
| 15 | And I believe er , at this meeting it was revealed that Scottish Homes had received a tender from the West Lothian District Council for this work over a period of ten years for a figure which comes to four hundred thousand pound which , apparently , was the cheapest tender ! |
| 16 | Captive-bred Pretty Tetras , have a much more brighter colouration than wild-caught specimens , the latter of which tend to lose this brightness over a period of time when kept in an aquarium . |
| 17 | People have made wonderful toys in a lot of different places over a period of time . |
| 18 | Now the Col des Cavales is an important pass to the Pave hut beside its deep blue , ice-infested lake , but it 's loose and nasty in the late afternoon : rusty cables hang from broken bolts over a parody of a path , so without axes we kicked down steep slush and bucket-stepped , slippery ice . |
| 19 | Moreover , even those studies where there does seem to be a clear relationship over a number of data points at different arousal levels ( e.g. Courts , 1942 ; Stennett , 1957 ; Bolanger & Feldman , described in Malmo 1959 ) can often be criticized for the possibility that the task used to induce arousal actually requires greater levels of attention at higher levels of arousal itself . |
| 20 | In Tameside the central department and the local authority were in direct conflict over a matter of administrative feasibility . |
| 21 | This 11-year series combined with earlier observations of the pulsar gives us a fairly complete account of the rotational behaviour of this pulsar over a period of 23 years , including the glitches of 1969 , 1975 and 1986 ( refs 4–6 ) . |
| 22 | Roebuck , moved a famous and extremely detailed vote of censure on Palmerston 's foreign policy over a period of two decades , 2,000 – 3,000 volumes of manuscript correspondence were consulted by officials in the government 's attempt to produce a convincing rebuttal . |
| 23 | One result of this constant paradox is that while the police make statements welcoming research and applaud intellectual debate , they strive to impose rigid control over a system of preferred rules and regulations to negate open enquiry , so that systems are quietly but firmly deployed to deny the critical approach — as we shall see . |
| 24 | As always , it was difficult to judge the uphill putt over a kind of step . |
| 25 | social choice over a set of alternatives must depend on the orderings of the individuals only over these alternatives and not on ‘ irrelevant alternatives ’ ; |
| 26 | We have recently shown that significant portal and systemic endotoxaemia occurs in this model over a period of three weeks . |
| 27 | Similarly , Pw ai3 ORF has an identity of 30 % over a stretch of 260 amino acids with Sc ai4 ORF . |
| 28 | Last year 's summer play scheme was the first in the Dyfi Valley and attracted more than 800 children over a period of four weeks to Ysgol Bro Ddyfi . |
| 29 | They approached me one by one with invitations : some drinks over a game of cards ; a night out at the theatre … |
| 30 | This latter is a longitudinal survey over a period of two and a half years following a structured sample of some 4,000 persons who registered as unemployed in May 1980 . |