Example sentences of "over a distance [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another new type of submarine , the Oscar , can fire its 16 cruise missiles over a distance of 500 km to attack ships . |
| 2 | Never has anyone even considered building an international airport , moving all the necessary supplies over a distance of 13 000 kilometres between hemispheres . |
| 3 | At a constant 75mph on the motorway over a distance of 50 miles , it calculated consumption to be an optimistic 28.4mpg . |
| 4 | It is a 15 inch gauge railway opened in 1990 and connects the two towns of Wroxham and Aylesham over a distance of some nine miles . |
| 5 | THE NORTH coast of Scotland faces the Arctic over a distance of seventy miles and is terminated abruptly by Cape Wrath in the west and Duncansby Head near John o' Groats in the east . |
| 6 | From the crest of this ridge , a comprehensive view of the range unfolds : a magnificent panorama especially when the tops are under snow , the long array of peaks being seen across the deep trench of Loch Fannich which forms the southern boundary of the group over a distance of eight miles . |
| 7 | A low pass carries a narrow road from Kinlochewe to the sea , and ranged along its northern side are the two huge masses of Beinn Eighe and Liathach , together extending in intimidating slopes over a distance of ten miles : Munros both , and among the best . |
| 8 | Morar , like neighbouring Knoydart , is wild and inhospitable , without roads in the interior and similarly featuring a loch that pierces the mountain barrier over a distance of twelve miles . |
| 9 | Examination of the wreckage showed that the pressure dome at the rear of the passenger cabin had ruptured from the bottom where there was substantial evidence of corrosion over a distance of more than 18 inches . |
| 10 | Because the microscope gives an image which is fuzzy over a distance of the size of the wavelength of the light being used , if we want to measure the position more accurately we must decrease the wavelength . |
| 11 | Modern man must remember that in earlier times people washed less frequently and that , however chauvinistic we may find it today , women were usually available to fetch water whenever it was needed , even over a distance of several miles . |
| 12 | I FEEL I must respond to the May 14 letter from R Hagan regarding transferring babies in-utero over a distance of 1,000 miles in Western Australia . |
| 13 | The enormous necropolis is adjacent and contains hundreds of tombs cut down into the tufa over a distance of two miles . |
| 14 | Since the water had to be raised to the top of the acropolis over a distance of a kilometre , this saved the construction of an aqueduct 100 feet high over this long distance . |
| 15 | Detailed seismic evidence indicates that the underthrusting has been at an angle of about 15° over a distance of about 300 km ; perhaps significantly this roughly corresponds to the average width of the Himalayas . |
| 16 | Yet three quarters of all personal car journeys are over a distance of five miles or less . |
| 17 | To confirm that integration had occurred by homologous recombination , the unique BamHI genomic fragments of 5.8 , 7.4 and 8.4kb , which span the junctions of inserted plasmid and genomic sequences , were cloned in lambda EMBL12 , and the regions around the PstI and terminal BamHI sites sequenced over a distance of 2-300 bps . |