Example sentences of "[verb] on over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 2 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 3 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 4 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 5 | The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process . |
| 6 | In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time . |
| 7 | I 've put on over a stone |