Example sentences of "were [vb pp] over a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sickness absence records of 9072 participants ( 88% of the total sample ) were examined over a mean period of 20 ( range 0.3–39.6 ) months . |
| 2 | But that was generally the practice of settled people : Zuwaya were scattered over a vast territory , and although they owned land they were not permanently resident on it . |
| 3 | When dawn broke , the jeeps and trucks were scattered over a wide area , camouflaged under bushes and in the lee of rocks . |
| 4 | The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks . |
| 5 | All windows were blown out and large pieces of metal and wood were scattered over a wide area . |
| 6 | Windows were shattered over a wide area and a number of persons had to be treated for injuries from flying glass and shock . |
| 7 | THE essays included in the collection Women , Art and Power were written over a twenty-year period . |
| 8 | I would imagine that the site had at one time been occupied by a large merchant 's house as four of the houses were built over a medieval cellar . |
| 9 | In order to quantify relevant costs , it identified a number of cost categories , for which costs were collected over a ten-month period . |
| 10 | As anticipated melting curves for duplexes 1-4 showed a single transition ( Figure 2 ) and T m values were measured over a 14-fold concentration range in order to determine thermodynamic parameters ( Table 1 ) . |
| 11 | Four ml were distributed over a fixed amount of filter paper in a faecal collection container . |
| 12 | Christmas puddings , jars of mincemeat , bunches of holly , fruit , nuts , table-mats , serviette-rings and dozens of other useful little articles they had made carefully and patiently were spread over a long trestle table in the hall . |
| 13 | They were spread over a wide expanse of riverbank , back at the twisting curling Shannon river once more . |
| 14 | Even within London the operations were spread over a wide area with , for example , designers at Greenford , south-east London , fittings in Battersea and pattern-cutting in Kilburn . |
| 15 | At Eton the different houses and classrooms were spread over a large area , and in the next day or two I had somehow to find out where and when which masters were teaching me what subjects . |
| 16 | Two elderly men were crouched over a naked girl who was strapped face down to some form of wooden rack . |
| 17 | The worst day for bomb scares was the Wednesday before Christmas , when many hours of trading were lost over a wide area of the centre of town . |
| 18 | In a study I undertook , five clients from each of five surgeries , a total of 25 , were studied over a six-month period . |