Example sentences of "widely [vb pp] over the " in BNC.

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1 Terry McLaughlin , the deputy editor of the Irish News , said some of the material shown to him was marked ‘ top secret ’ , the highest security classification , and went beyond the type of photo-montage material that has been widely leaked over the past month .
2 A decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma has been widely reported over the last three decades .
3 We all agree to the need for more rational use of insecticides than hitherto , especially in agriculture ; yet insecticides to control mosquitoes are normally applied to the inside walls and roofs of buildings so that , unlike agricultural pesticides , they are not widely dispersed over the landscape but confined within houses .
4 One of these , the Common Zebra , is widely distributed over the grassland savannah in eastern and southern Africa in different forms , each with a slightly different stripe pattern .
5 By 1086 , Droitwich salt was being widely distributed over the Midlands ; King William himself had eighty-five salt pans here .
6 Bronze Age tagged and barbed arrow heads have been found in at least eight places widely distributed over the island and three more of the leaf shape , and it is probable that others found have not been reported .
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