Example sentences of "[coord] over a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often this is to do with the fact that the current bereavement has driven the person into emotional overload because of everything else that is happening in their life either currently or over a period of time . |
| 2 | This may be in a particular meeting or over a period of time . |
| 3 | There is an attractive walled garden , fifty acres of tranquil woods , farmland , and over a mile of brook and riverside for guests to enjoy at their leisure . |
| 4 | This version had provision for the hot gases of combustion to be passed round and over a layer of slurry spread upon a drying floor . |
| 5 | The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats . |
| 6 | Greece also lodged strong protests over nationalist attacks on Greeks and their property in Albania , and over a series of raids on villages on the Greek side of the Greek-Albanian border . |
| 7 | The news media learned of the arrests next morning and over a number of days outraged protests went up from loyalist spokesmen , including leaders of loyalist political parties and Andrew Beattie 's colleagues on the Constitutional Stoppage Central Co-ordinating Committee . |
| 8 | Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective . |
| 9 | The everyday lives of ordinary people are not the basis for good television unless the characters and events are portrayed in a consistently entertaining fashion , and over a period of time ; hence the great success of television soap operas . |
| 10 | This does not add much to the cost of the order , and over a period of time the extra components build up into a useful stock of parts . |
| 11 | The masculine energy is made available , and over a period of time the woman can crystallize that energy into a bond that will hold fast . |
| 12 | The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving . |
| 13 | In both cases you have to find a deposit , and over a period of time pay off what is , in effect , a loan . |
| 14 | Also studied were the consistency of performance of individuals within and between topics , between mode of assessment and over a period of time . |
| 15 | This stage is followed by a search for means to implement the desired change and over a period of time a cycle of problems are handled by this method . |
| 16 | The place was besieged , and over a period of months , including a winter , the English grip tightened . |
| 17 | ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving . |
| 18 | But over a period of time , two things disturb this equilibrium : evaporation and infiltration . |
| 19 | But over a period of time , erm , they are not directly equivalent , but very nearly so . |
| 20 | The third type requires such intervention but over a period of years , usually nearly into adolescence , and often there is never complete resolution . |
| 21 | I want a powder , a potion , one which will not kill immediately but over a period of months , undetected by her or any physician . ’ |