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

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1 Formol saline fixed , paraffin embedded Crosby capsule jejunal biopsy specimens were collected by reviewing the archives of the Royal Infirmary Pathology Department over a five year period .
2 There are a large number of research projects over a wide range of topics in health and health care : what health is and how it is to be valued , what influences health , the demand for and supply of health care , market equilibria and micro evaluation of treatments to system evaluation and the efficacy of planning , budgeting and monitoring mechanisms available to policy makers .
3 In our own tests we found that the Grizzled Skipper with 512K RAM fitted showed little speed advantage over a Super VGA card with 1MB RAM which is commonly fitted in many high-end machines .
4 The Government did however put in a £200 million investment programme over a four-year period ( the previous annual average , apart from one missile development programme , had been £5 million ) .
5 On the 10th , Mme Jacqueline Auriol took the Class C-1g speed record over a 1,000 km closed circuit to 534 mph , and on the 15th also broke the 2,000 km record at 509 mph .
6 If that 's the case , then we could argue , an and will do , that now is a good time to borrow on a fixed term basis over a long period .
7 EXPLORER Robert Swann is helping people in the North-East turn over a new leaf and help the environment .
8 When she returned , some twenty minutes later , she was wearing a lilac pintucked pinafore dress over a flower-sprigged blouse with a white collar .
9 What we are clearly seeing in some areas is roughly the same group of people exploiting the same local landscape for their subsistence requirements over a long period , but with successive generations living on different sites at different times .
10 In all 3,200 middle-aged men were given either beta blockers or diuretics for their blood pressure over a 10-year period .
11 Using this definition at King 's College Hospital , surgical intervention was necessary in 12 of 252 children ( 4.4% ) and 25 of 540 of adults ( 4.6% ) with bleeding oesophageal varices treated by injection sclerotherapy over a five year period .
12 These round beans , one from each berry , give a more even roast than the usual split beans and may be roasted in a single layer in a heavy frying pan over a moderate heat .
13 Melt the 75g/oz unsalted butter in a large frying pan over a moderate heat .
14 The study contributes towards a comprehensive view of the working of the labour market over a long period and of the sources of shocks disturbing the economy .
15 It is now possible for mature students to study to general degree level over a wide range of subjects entirely in the part-time evening mode .
16 Mr Kinnock has taken High Court libel action over a front page story , A Man For All Reasons , in the Sun on April 3 .
17 In October the government told the Soviet Union that it wanted to put their mutual trade relationship on a US dollar basis over a two-year period .
18 Amphoterics : They have excellent detergent properties over a wide pH range .
19 MR TREVOR Clay , retired general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing , was yesterday awarded £8,000 High Court libel damages over a Daily Mirror story , which he claimed accused him of working ‘ with an eye on getting a plum job with the Government ’ .
20 PRINCESS Stephanie of Monaco ( right ) has accepted undisclosed libel damages over a Daily Mirror article which suggested she demanded a 100,000-dollar fee ( £65,360 ) to attend a charity gala in Dublin .
21 Our business correspondent Alan Saunby says the deal puts a question mark over a similar turbo prop planned to be built at the Ayrshire plant .
22 They also destroyed roads , power lines , and sugar and cotton mills over a wide area .
23 If one can spread a core cost over a larger operation one can offer cheaper fares .
24 Carlo is wearing a large , double-breasted linen jacket and non-matching royal blue linen trousers over a slate-grey T-shirt and stone shirt .
25 Payment of social security contributions over a given period ‘ entitles ’ the payer to a benefit , ( though only until the law is changed ! ) .
26 Each Europartenariat to date has generated an average of around 3,000 pre-arranged business appointments over a two-day period .
27 Evaluation of the Trust 's activities was undertaken principally via a questionnaire of a sample of past clients ( n=78 , a response rate of 39 percent ) , supplementing this with a systematic monitoring of enquiries at the Powys Self Help office ( using self record diaries over a two week period ) and conducting interviews with individuals associated with the organisation .
28 Above , Slater sported a well-worn hacking jacket over a black shirt and a black bow tie which appeared to have lots of small , dull red stones set in it .
29 Simulation has been used to predict population changes over a long period of time and for charting space-satellite trajectories .
30 Simulation tends to be used in problems where mathematical solutions are not possible , or where long time scales are involved ( eg predicting — population changes over a 30 year period ) , or where there is no other way of tackling the problem ( eg charting space-satellite trajectories ) .
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