Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , it is desirable that they should meet and get to know each other for a day or two over a safe fence ( possibly a mesh that a horse ca n't kick a leg through ) before they are put in with each other . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Fact : whenever the NME staff get all babyish and gooey over a band , I get suspicious because it happens every other week . |
| 4 | So they will need to look for a company that is reliable and responsible over a long term , and offers a variety of ancillary services . ’ |
| 5 | The definitive work on sleep norms at different ages is by Robert Williams , Ismet Karacan and Carolyn Hursch from the Florida Sleep Laboratory who recorded the normal sleep patterns of over 200 subjects between three and seventy years of age and older over a period of fifteen years . |
| 6 | BBC1 have got children 's TV presenter Phillip Schofield , soon to rejoin the cast of the stage show Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat , to introduce clips from programmes between 1962 and 1987 over a 12-week run , starting on Monday . |
| 7 | They were illiterate , mainly shamanist in religion and dominant over a number of other tribes in south-west Siberia . |
| 8 | He would turn up at the Gloucester and Cheltenham festivals , eager to discuss writing projects and agonising over a contracting market . |
| 9 | An alternative is the coefficient of colligation ( Yule statistic ) , which is mathematically similar to κ but stable over a wider range of base rates . |