Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Company Patrons have committed their organisations to give the association substantial , planned support over a number of years . |
| 2 | On January 3 , 1979 , road transport drivers stopped work over a 25 per cent claim , paralysing dock movements , starving industry of supplies , putting thousands on short time and causing panic buying of food and threats of rationing . |
| 3 | In the years following the Second World War the European colonial powers retained control over a large number of military and naval bases among their colonies . |
| 4 | In many countries in the early stages of industrialization agriculture has been a major source of foodstuffs , exports and labour , but the degree to which agriculture in Japan contributed capital over a sustained period is unusual . |
| 5 | THUGS poured petrol over a schoolboy and tried to set him alight after he refused to go shoplifting . |
| 6 | It was a bit summery for the weather , but had the same small waist as Xanthe 's tailored number , in a kind of light-green figured gauze over a satin underskirt , with a broad belt and wide lighter-coloured lapels , with a big perspex buckle like bottle glass . |
| 7 | ‘ Once when the Yard needed advice over a fraud case , and once over a theft ! ’ |
| 8 | He established territory over a cave roof in the middle of the tank and proceeded to carry out a reign of terror that had the other residents hugging the ends of the tank in various stages of nervous collapse . |
| 9 | On 7 June 1972 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ( OSHA ) issued a standard on asbestos exposure at work which took effect over a four-year period to 1 July 1976 . |
| 10 | Field-work took place over a twelve-month period between 1987 and 1988 , and was sufficiently prolonged to avoid the criticism which brief ‘ smash-andgrab ’ ethnographies often deserve . |
| 11 | The rebuilding of the old manor took place over a period of about five years and was probably finished in about 1727 . |
| 12 | Unlike the 1991 Rugby World Cup , which took place over a whole month , not to mention the three months build-up , thereby allowing the sponsors to develop their marketing strategy over a long period of time , the World Sevens tournament is a three-day event , with the commercial potential of a ‘ Market blink ’ , as he puts it . |
| 13 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 14 | My first little skirmish took place over a film , one about rape . |
| 15 | But the change was n't radical , it took place over a period of er I would suggest er maybe about six or seven years . |
| 16 | Telford 's intensive subject assessment , co-ordinated in college by Fiona Baikie , took place over a fortnight at the end of November 1989 . |
| 17 | In the beginning , the race took place over a course that included three brooks and a five foot stone wall amongst the 29 jumps . |
| 18 | Comparison of the contents of the first two editions of Craig 's ‘ Geology of Scotland ’ , published in 1965 and 1983 , reveals just how completely and all-pervasively this change took place over a very short period of time . |
| 19 | Wickham might have commented that his business took precedence over a vote on the future of the chewing gum industry , but his priorities were not a politician 's priorities . |
| 20 | It reached agreement over a number of issues including selection procedure and the team 's uniform , flag and song . |
| 21 | For instance , I was one of several born in Ipswich you see , and I had advantage over a lot of men who were released from the Guards to come here . |
| 22 | President Andrés Rodríguez calmed speculation over a possible imminent " presidential coup " when on June 22 he swore allegiance to the new Constitution in a solemn ceremony before the Congress . |
| 23 | Ruth went down the stone stairs that curved to the ground floor and followed the archways that led to an inner courtyard that might have been uncomfortably hot but was tempered by a cool fountain that arced water over a frolicking marble dolphin and child below . |
| 24 | After September 1938 the Club had control over a section of Tribune , the weekly paper supporting the Unity Campaign . |
| 25 | ‘ We all used to talk about guaranteed prices and we had stability over a period of 50 years . |
| 26 | Scribblers added oil for this purpose , while spinners held wool over a steaming kettle and could conceal the removal of half a pound in every six this way . |
| 27 | The PDS emphasized concern over a deterioration in the comprehensive social protection currently offered by the East German state . |