Example sentences of "and [adv] over [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 In general if an illness has appeared rapidly and vigorously over a matter of hours then one should look for a cause in the preceding few hours or day at the most .
2 I understood that there was considerable air traffic from the U.S.A. across Canada to Alaska , and thence over the tundra of the Siberian wastes to the land of our ‘ great Russian allies ’ .
3 They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home .
4 Everywhere and all over the vault of heaven is a marvellous blue , and the sun sheds a radiance of pale sulphur , and it is soft and lovely as the combination of heavenly blues and yellows in a Van der Meer of Delft [ sic ] .
5 It is much better to build up endurance levels gradually and gently over a period of weeks and months .
6 No doubt very precise control is exercised over the interfacial adhesion and thus over the propagation of cracks .
7 Foundations for a stone wall , 3–4 m ( 10–13 ft ) wide , lay in front of the rampart and partly over the lip of the filled ditch .
8 The Turkish military was reported to be concerned over the presence of foreign troops on Turkish territory , and also over the prospect of a Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq .
9 Then , with her back to the door , she sprinkled the rest of the contents of the bowl high into the air and out over the edge of the roof .
10 couple of things we saw each other and then over a space of about two months we saw each other probably about three times
11 He dared not move , for fear of starting a slide of loose stones that would carry him down and irresistibly over the edge of the quarry .
12 Because there would n't be the traffic generation , because you could although they argued long and hard over the ability of service vehicles to service the site .
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