Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] over a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outer layer of the skin ( epidermis ) is made up of cells which are shed over a cycle of 28 days . |
| 2 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 3 | Thousands of pounds have been collected over a number of years , resulting in items of new equipment that have each been featured in previous issues of Glenpatrick News . |
| 4 | A few months later , Harry Goodman responded with a full frontal attack , claiming that 9000 children in the care of the RCM had ‘ practically no Jewish contacts and that no effort had been made over a period of years to give these children some religious education ’ . |
| 5 | The sailors are timed over a course of 500m , which needs to be flat water with an optimum sailing angle of 120–130 degrees to the wind . |
| 6 | As a result , drawings are phased over a number of years and are granted in accordance with the successful attainment of the agreed programme . |
| 7 | In addition to exploring the influences upon arrears , this approach will allow the course of arrears to be traced over a period of time . |
| 8 | If you think of it the other way when , what happens when a price , when a price falls , alright , if farmers er , assume that price fall will be sustained over a number of periods , then they think , right well in order to achieve the same level of income , right , as I did previously , if prices have fallen , I 'm going to have to increase my output . |
| 9 | The single.step response can be examined over a range of forcing resistance values ( with appropriate changes of supply voltage to maintain constant phase current ) until a suitable response is obtained . |
| 10 | However , the emphasis has shifted in that the business is now controlled by the purchaser rather than the vendor and the earn out will be calculated over a period of perhaps several years following completion . |
| 11 | Text can be aligned over a range of columns by selecting the WYSI-WYG menu options : Text , Align , Centre and highlighting the relevant range of columns . |
| 12 | The centre frequency can be adjusted over a range of 400kHz to 250MHz , with direct frequency readout on a large 0.5in. liquid crystal display . |
| 13 | At the meeting Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , proposed the " decoupling " of the internal and external aspects of unification so that the former could be completed swiftly while allowing a unified Germany 's security status to be resolved over a number of years . |
| 14 | Thus , whereas in the relational model information about the object customer would be scattered over a number of relations ( which could be : customer , holding customer name and address information ; sales ledger , holding details about the debts of the customer ; invoice , holding details of payments due ) , in the object-oriented model there would be one object , customer , reflecting all this information . |
| 15 | This is allowed for in each instrument and in addition , measurements can be made over a range of temperatures ( 278 to 373 K ) . |
| 16 | Furthermore measurement has usually to be made over a period of time . |
| 17 | Doing it manually , it had to be done over a period of two or three days , fitting it in after work . ’ |
| 18 | It 's typical of the states I get in here I suddenly told myself that the digging would have to be done over a number of days , the only stupid thing was to expect to do it all in one . |
| 19 | Where information , particularly of a detailed nature , is to be collected over a period of time the panel has clear attractions . |
| 20 | In March of the following year Mr Henderson was appointed treasurer of the Building Fund and the cost of the building scheme was estimated at £18,000 a sum which could be met over a period of 7 years . |
| 21 | One problem for small businesses is that capital needs to be reinvested over a number of years yet there are no special allowances provided by the government for doing so . |
| 22 | Discrimination and parental choice have come to be linked over a number of issues of current importance . |
| 23 | Although the liability will be settled over a number of years , the future payments represent a contingent loss at the balance sheet date . |
| 24 | Speed of response can be set over a range of five steps , and may well have to be reset because , particularly in graphics mode , if it is too sensitive , loading up several movement commands into the buffer will require having to wait for them to clear . |
| 25 | If an open-loop stepping motor control is to operate at speeds in excess of the start/ top rate the instantaneous stepping rate must be increased over a number of steps , until the maximum speed is attained . |
| 26 | Overtaking behaviour at a number of locations will be monitored over a period of several months using video-recording equipment . |
| 27 | As stated above , the samples of dementia sufferers were to be generated over a period of one year ( 1 April 1984–31 March 1985 ) ; and the development officers were to continue to provide their service for one further year ( until 31 March 1986 ) though no further sample members ( project clients in the case of the action sample ) were to be generated during the second year . |
| 28 | The range of flavours expected in a Thai meal should be spread over a choice of textures , too . |
| 29 | Broadly speaking , transformation into a common market was to be spread over a period of between 12 and 15 years , with a stepwise progression through stages of four years each . |
| 30 | Because of the size of block used , laying is an easy job which can be spread over a period of time . |