Example sentences of "[adv] over a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the slow ones — the young , the old and the sick — that are caught , simply because they are not quick enough over a long enough distance . |
| 2 | Without these provisions , the collapse of the structure perhaps over a much wider area must be anticipated . |
| 3 | At Raigmore , near Inverness , a stone circle almost 60 feet in diameter was raised around 1600 BC over a much earlier Stone Age settlement . |
| 4 | In so doing the newcomers have contributed to the sense of urban encroachment on rural political affairs among farmers and landowners which goes back over a much longer period , and which has been associated with changes in the institutions of political control in the countryside : the gradual decline in the personalized and autocratic power of the locally resident squirearchy and the transfer of public administration to a more formal and impersonal framework of local government since local politics were first placed on a democratic footing in 1888 . |
| 5 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 6 | Return the custard to the pan and heat gently , stirring continuously over a very low heat until it thickens . |
| 7 | Now it could be said of course that we do n't offer the same kind of very intense opportunities that are on offer to undergraduates , but in some senses , and many adults have testified to this , this is an advantage , because it enables people in their own time , and sometimes over a fairly prolonged period , to explore with a tutor , a scholar , the kind of interests that they have in the issues that have concerned them in society . |
| 8 | This of course was not the main part of the work , but a pilot study used to test and refine some hypotheses about the wider sociolinguistic situation , which was then investigated more fully over a much longer period of time . |