Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Special Advisory Board for the Army Medical Service had laid down as a basis for treatment ‘ a more or less continuous course of mercury by mouth for 1½ to 2 years ’ combined with mercurial ointment rubbed into the skin for 20 to 30 minutes daily over a six-week period . |
| 2 | His fingers stirred lazily against her skin , and she clamped her teeth together over a gasp . |
| 3 | Whey-faced and wobbling , she slowly rises to a kneeling position behind the chair and peers out over a rampart of faded chintz , searching the room for the source of my voice . |
| 4 | We talked to nutters frequently over a period of two years and some were ‘ interviewed ’ in a more structured manner . |
| 5 | The action smacked too much of the grandiose , if futile , gesture of the French nobility at Crécy just over a century earlier . |
| 6 | The suspension of the armed struggle just over a month ago was seen as a break-through , but within days , peace seemed as far away as ever . |
| 7 | In the past New Zealand have insisted that the Cup would be at stake only over a Test series , or in a one-off Test . |
| 8 | It hit the green and finished down in the rough with the flag just over a little rise ( he was down in Duncan 's Hollow ) . |
| 9 | After the ingestion of the lactulose drink or the rice flour meal end expiratory breath samples were collected in 50 ml polyethylene syringes at time 0 and 15 minute intervals thereafter over a 5.5 or seven hour period for the lactulose or the rice flour test respectively . |
| 10 | Instead of retreating instead of going underground instead of accepting that the situation had become extremely difficult and it was necessary to try and rebuild their organization and their influence gradually over a period of time , they committed their shattered forces to further battles and more or less completed er their destruction . |
| 11 | A The use of sand directly over a sub gravel filter is not recommended . |
| 12 | It is perhaps partly for this reason that these models have been largely concerned with the short term economic outlook ie over a horizon of up to three years . |
| 13 | Remarkably , Kieslowski shot and edited the ten films back-to-back over a 21-month period using different cinematographers on each production . |
| 14 | IT 'S DIFFICULT to come up with a definitive explanation as to why , but the music industry is currently going through its worst trough in over a decade . |
| 15 | Now , having beaten West Indies three times in quick succession after not having beaten them for years , outclassing New Zealand 2–0 out there , the first team in over a decade to win a Test rubber there , and of course reaching the World Cup final , England are now a force to be reckoned with . |
| 16 | Goldman 's push had sent Helen backwards over a low wall , hips and legs one side , torso on the other . |
| 17 | THE GEMS dealer turned fraudster , Darius Guppy , the best man to the Princess of Wales 's brother , Earl Spencer , was jailed for five years yesterday over a bogus robbery and false insurance claim . |
| 18 | Aim to alter your diet gradually over a period of six months . |
| 19 | EX-BOXER Danny McAlinden , 44 , got a suspended nine months ' jail yesterday over a pub brawl at Walworth , south London . |
| 20 | Two hundred soldiers , assisted by thousands of transmigrasi , were to round the elephants up over a 390 sq . |
| 21 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 22 | Or has it been a build up over a ye number of years |
| 23 | Make syrup by heating 225g ( 8oz ) caster sugar and 600ml ( 1 pint ) water together over a low heat , stir until sugar dissolves . |
| 24 | Indy is a one-off ; to be a world champion in FI it takes putting all the marbles together over a whole season . |
| 25 | Musicale was blocked for a run in the home straight and it was not until Pat Eddery secured an opening just over a furlong out that the filly looked likely to cut down Lord Huntingdon 's Wiedniu . |
| 26 | THE Manchester United footballer Viv Anderson was given a public apology and undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story in the Daily Star concerning a post-match clash between Anderson and the Wimbledon player John Fashanu . |
| 27 | ALISTAIR Bell , whose wife was found murdered in a sports centre car park , won undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story linking him with her death . |
| 28 | There is no close accounting of who owes what to whom but there is a tacit understanding by all concerned that there is a moral obligation to balance things out over a period . |
| 29 | The cumulative effect , however , of attending to such questions consistently over a period of time is considerable and , as teachers agree , eventually time-saving . |
| 30 | Much of the glen is owned by NTS and there has been increasing adverse publicity recently over a vast upsurge in visitor numbers , the centre 's failure to stop indiscriminate car parking up and down the glen and increased mountain erosion . |