Example sentences of "[adj] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A LONDONDERRY school head has called ‘ foul ’ over dog owners who allow their pets to run free over a play area . |
| 2 | Huge lakes of oil , some over a mile square and up to a metre deep , are persisting in the Kuwaiti desert , taking over from the oil fires as the most serious threat to the country 's environment . |
| 3 | Other changes in structure developed more slowly , but although the pattern looked different over a period of a few years , analogues of the basic groups seem to have been present ever since the phenomenon of the contemporary football fan arose in the middle to late 1960s . |
| 4 | Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington . |
| 5 | If you choose to abandon formality ( 'Why do n't we discuss this over a drink ? ' ) then you are playing high status in that you 're taking this decision , and allowing the other person perhaps to rise above their station . |
| 6 | It 's been like this over a number of issues ever since the children were small , but it 's got worse since they 've been teenagers . |
| 7 | When you can get choice of them , if they 're going for forty over a piece ! |
| 8 | It catalogued ‘ positively dangerous ’ work practices , poor management , inadequate training and supervision and inherent weakness in the safety culture of BR in a list of 16 separate ‘ relevant errors ’ where things had gone wrong over a number of years . |
| 9 | Too much sunlight might impress upon me the idea of how much more agreeable it would be out of doors rather than hunched over a sheet of almost blank paper . |
| 10 | A particular scene appeared before her eyes : her father is sitting hunched over a pile of torn photographs , and Agnes 's sister is shouting at him : ‘ Why have you torn up Mother 's pictures ? |
| 11 | There is , for example , no Annie 's Bar where we may gossip with the mighty over a vodka — although we do have access to a well-stocked cafeteria , where the waitresses are uncommonly polite . |
| 12 | Later , the project was able to borrow a more advanced flux-gate magnetometer and the preliminary conclusions from Rodney Hale , an experienced electronics engineer , as a result of further work , are that there is a magnetic field within the circle which fluctuates relative to that outside over a period of hours . |
| 13 | But drinking too much over a period of months or years damages far more than the nervous system . |
| 14 | If you are unsuccessful over a period of time there 's always a chance you will part company . ’ |
| 15 | Security becomes important when files are accessible over a network . |
| 16 | Making the bend in a bamboo stick is surprisingly easy over a candle flame or similar , but be careful not to burn it at this vital centre point of the kite ! |
| 17 | The Test of Professional Competence , for building surveyors , first introduced in 1973 , has remained unchanged over a period during which many other changes both technological and sociological have taken place within the Division . |
| 18 | The loans would be repayable over a period of 20 years at 3.5 per cent interest . |
| 19 | Rudolph Ackermann issued some fifty books with coloured plates , including the well-known Repository of Arts , Literature , Commerce , Manufacture , and Politics , which appeared monthly over a period of nearly twenty years . |
| 20 | We passed giant slabs of ice which had buckled up into a cracked swelling over a rock and saw ice discs spinning on the surface of the water like root-less lily pads . |
| 21 | The cause of deterioration is mainly due to the covering becoming thin and brittle because of weathering i.e. the action of heat and cold over a period of time . |
| 22 | This proved difficult and Josef Vissarionovich had to be blown up little by little over a period of two weeks . |
| 23 | The position of the Central Authority was strong : they were responsible for the Boards as a whole breaking-even over a period of years ; their approval was required for capital and current expenditure ; and they raised the capital and controlled the reserves and bank-balances of the Boards . |
| 24 | By using examples taken at random over a period of years the following list has been assembled : |
| 25 | We may explain the fact that the production units of a particular industry have grown larger over a period of time by appealing to the economies this yields , and in doing so claim that a cause ( increase in scale ) occurred because of its propensity to have a certain effect ( economies of scale ) . |
| 26 | That 's well over a second quicker than the Integrale , just under a second in front of Ford 's Sapphire Cosworth 4x4 and neck and neck with BMW 's masterful M5 . |
| 27 | IT 'S well over a decade since the B-52s played their only Scottish show at Tiffany 's discotheque , Edinburgh . |
| 28 | Four hundred years ( 15:13 ) … the fourth generation ( 15:16 ) : the word " generation " may also mean " lifetime " , and the lifetime of Abram was well over a century . |
| 29 | Social democratic parties have existed in Europe for a century or more ; the Democratic and Republican parties in the US are well over a century old , and indeed have a certain continuity with earlier parties dating from the time of the American Revolution ; conservative parties on a mass basis were created soon after the emergence of social democracy in Europe ; and communist parties were formed on a world scale after the Russian Revolution . |
| 30 | It 's well over a week since the last patch of ground was cleared and a spider turning up is pure chance . ’ |