Example sentences of "[det] [noun] over a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | no , not directly , each regional office would have a regional M D , managing director , who would actually be on the board , the divisional board with me , each regional M D would then have his own regional board on which there would be er finance er finance director , sales and marketing director , construction director , land director , not all of them , all seven had that board immediately , some developed that board , grew that board over a couple of years |
| 2 | We have confirmed this finding over a mean of 69 months follow up , with left ventricular ejection fraction ranging from 42 to 83% . |
| 3 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 4 | Ten a.m. , 24th July ; just finished breakfast with the mortar team and relaxing for a few minutes over a mug of hot tea discussing the number of casualties after the heavy shelling last night . |
| 5 | And I believe er , at this meeting it was revealed that Scottish Homes had received a tender from the West Lothian District Council for this work over a period of ten years for a figure which comes to four hundred thousand pound which , apparently , was the cheapest tender ! |
| 6 | Captive-bred Pretty Tetras , have a much more brighter colouration than wild-caught specimens , the latter of which tend to lose this brightness over a period of time when kept in an aquarium . |
| 7 | This 11-year series combined with earlier observations of the pulsar gives us a fairly complete account of the rotational behaviour of this pulsar over a period of 23 years , including the glitches of 1969 , 1975 and 1986 ( refs 4–6 ) . |
| 8 | We have recently shown that significant portal and systemic endotoxaemia occurs in this model over a period of three weeks . |
| 9 | They approached me one by one with invitations : some drinks over a game of cards ; a night out at the theatre … |
| 10 | Norwich ca n't afford to spend so much , but we 've bought wisely , nurtured this squad over a couple of seasons now , and we 're all maturing nicely together . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , heat the distilled water in another basin over a pan of simmering water until it has warmed . |
| 12 | The results of these labours over a period of fifty years were many papers and five influential books , the last two of which were completed by his son . |
| 13 | And it maybe about a relationship that will build up with these people over a period of time and I know it 's expensive as negotiation . |
| 14 | It would be useful to chart these trends over a number of years for each of these firms , rather like the analysis offered for Horizon in Table 11.4 . |
| 15 | Thus , while Piaget emphasised the importance of the child 's actions upon the world , other researchers have focused upon the child 's reactions to other people and the interactions which occur when adult and infant act and react towards each other over a period of time . |
| 16 | Like two regiments facing each other over a stretch of muddy field . |
| 17 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
| 18 | It should he pointed out , however , that high quality preparations of M1 human eggs in which reliable chiasma counts could be made , have never really been obtained despite numerous attempts on the part of many workers over a number of years . |
| 19 | It is generally agreed that students/trainees are observed performing on many occasions over a period of time as a natural part of the learning process . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He must have a computerised brain to have absorbed all that information over a period of years without having compiled a ‘ silly tick list ’ himself . |
| 22 | The same effect can be obtained by filling the pool with water and emptying it several times over a period of two or three weeks . |
| 23 | There is no obligation to buy any books over a period of time . |
| 24 | Stoats , weasels and polecats were the more obvious of these and man , being the innovator that he is , may well have captured , tamed and adapted some of these animals for his own purposes over a period of centuries . |
| 25 | If it is practicable to make repeated visits to the same site over a period of months or years a programme of capture/mark/release and recapture will add a further dimension to the whole range of topics available . |
| 26 | relationship , I mean do set up , I mean , if you get into , if you establish relations with me then it 's an ongoing thing , it can be , and it ought to be , so you actually do see the same people over a period of time , and you do establish a modicum of trust , not entire trust , because it 's asking too much for entire trust in all circumstances , but at least there is a certain understanding , particularly with the , on the , on the local basis . |
| 27 | Minns brought a broad range of expertise to bear on a field extending from eastern Europe to China , while at the same time paying close attention to the antiquities and books of his own college , where he occupied the same rooms over a period of fifty-five years as undergraduate , fellow , president ( 1928–49 ) , and senior fellow . |
| 28 | Cameron first worked for Catherine at the palace of Tsarskoe Selo , to which he made several additions over a period of fifteen years , notably the Agate Pavilion and the Cameron Gallery , an elegant building based on the neo-classical style developed in England by Robert Adam , about which Cameron had probably learned from Clérisseau . |
| 29 | Then work out a way that you can attain that goal over a period of time . |