Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun pl] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Apart from these four cases — all involving children — the other murders where there was a sexually explicit motive were few and far between , mentioned in perhaps two or three newspapers over a couple of days at most . |
| 3 | Davies v. Sumner is the leading authority on the meaning of the expression ‘ in the course of a business ’ and has been followed in a case under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , R. & B. Customs Brokers v. United Dominion Trust , where it was held that a business 's buying of two or three cars over a period of five years was an insufficient degree of regularity for the latest such purchase to be regarded as made in the course of the business ( see paragraph 10–18 above . ) |
| 4 | Some will remain lone parents , some may have one or more cohabitees over a period of years ; many will remarry after a period of cohabitation and become a step-family . |
| 5 | It is not fanciful ( we have the evidence of the fifteenth-century French lord , Jean de Bueil , to show it ) to see them discussing war , its dangers , its ‘ occasions ’ rather as men today recall political or sporting occasions over a drink . |
| 6 | Finally , ‘ higher doctorates ’ ( such as DSc , DLitt , DD ) are awarded for distinguished contribution to an academic field , actually on the basis of books or other publications over a period of years . |
| 7 | The experiments hit the scientific and popular headlines over a number of years before falling into disrepute when others found it quite hard even to train flatworms reliably on this pairing , let alone repeat the later steps in the procedure . |
| 8 | Figure 8 is an example of such a study which recorded and classified accidents over a period of time . |