Example sentences of "and over a [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There is an attractive walled garden , fifty acres of tranquil woods , farmland , and over a mile of brook and riverside for guests to enjoy at their leisure .
2 This version had provision for the hot gases of combustion to be passed round and over a layer of slurry spread upon a drying floor .
3 The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats .
4 Greece also lodged strong protests over nationalist attacks on Greeks and their property in Albania , and over a series of raids on villages on the Greek side of the Greek-Albanian border .
5 The news media learned of the arrests next morning and over a number of days outraged protests went up from loyalist spokesmen , including leaders of loyalist political parties and Andrew Beattie 's colleagues on the Constitutional Stoppage Central Co-ordinating Committee .
6 Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective .
7 The everyday lives of ordinary people are not the basis for good television unless the characters and events are portrayed in a consistently entertaining fashion , and over a period of time ; hence the great success of television soap operas .
8 This does not add much to the cost of the order , and over a period of time the extra components build up into a useful stock of parts .
9 The masculine energy is made available , and over a period of time the woman can crystallize that energy into a bond that will hold fast .
10 The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving .
11 In both cases you have to find a deposit , and over a period of time pay off what is , in effect , a loan .
12 Also studied were the consistency of performance of individuals within and between topics , between mode of assessment and over a period of time .
13 This stage is followed by a search for means to implement the desired change and over a period of time a cycle of problems are handled by this method .
14 The place was besieged , and over a period of months , including a winter , the English grip tightened .
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