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

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1 Here are the Angerholme Pots , all lined up for inspection over a straight half-mile .
2 These include such essentials as a preliminary sounding meeting with the head and whoever else is part of the school 's senior management ( i.e. anyone in a position to further the aims of the group ) to secure their sanction and support ; and an introductory meeting with as many of the staff as possible and manageable , for instance over a working lunch , regardless of who will eventually join the group , so that everybody knows what it will be about and interest is generated even in those who may not wish to join it .
3 Most funding agencies are , understandably , unwilling to take on a commitment to pay for research over a period of perhaps twenty years or more .
4 However , the ‘ special relationship ’ that marked the Reagan and Bush years has gone and there is plenty of scope for disagreement over a packed agenda .
5 Records may have to be kept for reference over a long period of time and therefore they must be adequately protected .
6 After breakfast we left the inn and got on the track , which , with care , need not be lost sight of in good weather , except in haze or severe rain , when there is danger at one or two places , where a ceaseless flow of moisture over a rich soil keeps the grass so green and the ground so soft , no path is traceable now and again .
7 If you mark your weight on a graph or chart this should provide a clear and rewarding sign of progress over a period of weeks and months .
8 He was plastering wet threads of hair over a balding pate , and there was a look of alarm in those magnified eyes .
9 While a cannon ball may plough through a line of troops and kill two or three victims , a mortar shell explodes with a tremendous bang , scattering mud , dirt , and bits of shell over a wide area .
10 Equally , it is not unknown for a partner gradually to lose interest in mundane administrative matters : often enough the problems that this can cause are exacerbated by his co-partners allowing him to escape his share of responsibility over a long period .
11 Each compartment can be used to hold a particular type of component over a limited range of values .
12 I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial
13 Chairman can I er suggest to these results of course over a period and I 'd like to see
14 The contrasts sound even more spectacular if the changes are expressed in terms of experience over a lifetime .
15 What we 've done tonight , is spread that amount of money over a tremendous number of people tonight
16 First , the payment of this sum of money over a short period would have a considerable inflationary effect .
17 It may also be possible to argue that where the party has failed to respond to a notice of assignment from the purchaser , such lack of action over a long period is an implied consent where that party has dealt with the purchaser after completion .
18 This consists of a layer of gravel over a raised grid at the bottom of the tank .
19 Harmonic schemes on a larger scale , spanning large movements or in successions of movements , also require planning , for some change of key over a large area is needed to create contrast and relief .
20 This case , in effect , turns on whether the family proceedings court can keep the power of review over a care order by making directions in relation to the care order .
21 They have an album of photos showing the house at different stages of completion over a period of 18 months .
22 I thought of him as the rhino : myopic , short-legged , thick-skinned , not too bright but with a mean temper , a surprising turn of speed over a short course , and , above all , a keen sense of smell .
23 For example , take a company which displays a doubling of turnover over a five-year period using a column graph ( vertical bar chart ) .
24 By interviewing a subsample of women from the original study it will be possible to plot the stability of self-esteem over a 7 to 8 year period and its relationship to changing social circumstances .
25 In the circumstances , a construction of fabric over a wire-braced framework of wood or bamboo was logical and efficient , and sometimes , nothing else would have got off the ground with the power available .
26 It created a wide divergence of attitude over a range of policy issues , generated acute mutual suspicion , and prevented either capital from providing a core around which the nation 's business community could coalesce .
27 Again these are fully supplemented by maps , photographs and charts and make an interesting source of reference over a large variety of subject matter .
28 He was able to extend his sphere of influence over a large area of south-eastern Britain .
29 In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the fabric of mid-Victorian hegemony was shattered by a series of structural contradictions , from economic retardation and industrial unrest , to growing socialist and feminist political militancy and intensification of anxiety over a whole range of social issues .
30 If the flat only has one entrance/exit ( which it will because it is not on the ground floor ) , it should have a fire escape , or some means of escape over a balcony or roof .
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