Example sentences of "over [adj] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 2 | My point of order is that , if the Government are having a difference with someone as important as a European Commissioner over such a substantial sum of European and public money , and with the charges that the British Treasury is laundering that money , surely a Minister should have been at the Dispatch Box today to make a statement . |
| 3 | This five-fold ( pentameral ) symmetry seems a peculiar number to be present over such a wide range of organisms . |
| 4 | Over such a wide range of forms of mining and manufacturing , the experience of labour was inevitably varied . |
| 5 | No-one has enjoyed such popularity over such a wide range of colleagues from the very junior to the very senior . |
| 6 | Once again , the intensity of contact spread over such a long time in the field makes this form of self-monitoring difficult to maintain , and there was also a general resistance from below to the management 's instruction . |
| 7 | But the broad package of interventions and centralization over such a long period of time surely outstrips that carried out by any previous government . |
| 8 | It is doubtful that auctioneer John Marion had ever presided over such a disastrous start to an auction . |