Example sentences of "over many " in BNC.
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| 1 | With very gradual familiarisation training spread over many months of flying , some of these students have been completely cured . |
| 2 | The yard was a product of piecemeal development over many years and found an important role in the air-braked wagonload network ( Speedlink ) from the 1970s onwards . |
| 3 | ‘ We must note that the nations of Europe have evolved their national clearing and depository systems over many years and , for many reasons , they are all different from one another , ’ he says . |
| 4 | Although a skilled fisherman , George Trowark became renowned as a knitter and over many years and many voyages he accumulated detailed notes of designs and patterns . |
| 5 | Very limited entrepreneurial ambitions , conspicuous consumption and a tendency to spread their thin investments over many ventures [ the ‘ group of companies ’ mentality ] , a tendency … to only scratch the surface of innovation , the aversion to teaming up with others , all these and other motivational factors are likely to continue to limit the growth of Nigerian enterprises even in those spheres which are exclusively reserved to them and to postpone the day when they may hope to take over the higher reaches of enterprise . |
| 6 | They resembled whales lined up outside the headmaster 's office — huge humps sprawled over many kilometres . |
| 7 | His thinking over many years lead to his innovative Lotus 78 , the car that pioneered F1 's ground effect era , and his creative energy over the past 10 years has been instrumental in galvanising Lotus , once a car maker with a fragile future , into an engineering consultancy of huge standing worldwide . |
| 8 | However , conversion of more modest manufacturing and storage buildings into individual dwellings has occurred over many years — possibly even centuries . |
| 9 | The letter , when she came to write it-painfully , word by word over many days — was quite different to what she had intended . |
| 10 | It is based on ‘ commonly accepted general principles of good journalistic practice ’ built by council adjudications over many years . |
| 11 | This will bring in reforms of the kind which the Consumers ' Association have been campaigning for over many a long year . |
| 12 | Questions were raised about the power of a shadowy ‘ Government-and-church Council ’ , headed by Mr Mazowiecki and leading members of the episcopate , which had considerable influence over many government decisions . |
| 13 | Pinza was owned by Sir Victor Sassoon ( who had spent a huge amount of money over many years trying to win the Derby ) and trained by Norman Bertie . |
| 14 | Part of it was simple force of personality , buttressed by a Marine uniform ; part of it was expectation , a slow series of teasing appearances and an avalanche of peculiar facts , built up over many months . |
| 15 | I 'd ridden over many jumps before , but never on a racehorse , never fast , never caring so much about the outcome . |
| 16 | According to the society , water voles , otters , redshank , snipe and lapwing and wetland plants such as marsh orchid and bog pimpernel had declined as a result of over-abstraction and drainage over many years . |
| 17 | In addition , the considerable influence of Miss Helen Stocks together with the experience and commitment of Sophie Green had given sustained momentum to the District 's educational provision and , of course , the Cassell Fund had provided invaluable financial support over many years . |
| 18 | The wars with France and Spain during the eighteenth century stretched over many years and disrupted plant exchange as did the American War of Independence in 1775 . |
| 19 | Within the Borough of Brentford and Chiswick there existed Boston House in the Manor of Boston , with a varied history over many hundreds of years ; also Gunnersbury House — the name Gunnersbury is believed to be derived from Gunilda or Gunyld , a niece of King Canute , who had a house or castle there — which led to the Manor of that area being called ‘ Gunnersbury ’ by the seventeenth century . |
| 20 | Dr Paul Altmann of the Kidney Unit at the London Hospital in Whitechapel is reported as saying : ‘ It is when you are absorbing aluminium over many years that it is potentially damaging . |
| 21 | Over many centuries its nations have worked , and frequently fought , side by side . |
| 22 | Its creation represents the energies and commitment of organisations — individuals over many months . |
| 23 | The secretion of a skeleton gave the corals a great advantage over many other coelenterates ; supported thus they could overcome the lack of rigidity of their soft tissues and grow large . |
| 24 | In Australia 's dry soils there are millions of tonnes of salt blown in from the sea over many millions of years . |
| 25 | My experience of these potencies over many years has demonstrated their usefulness in the treatment of serious cases , and deep pathology is rarely wholly eradicated without the aid of fifty millesimal potencies . |
| 26 | Professor Jim Jeffery , who has attempted over many years to disentangle the truth from the official statistics about the AGR series , estimates that the cost overrun on building just four of the stations ( Dungeness B , Hinkley Point B , Hartlepool and Heysham 1 ) amounts to over £6.5 billion ( at 1988 prices ) . |
| 27 | The knowledge which the parents possess will be based on perhaps a superficial understanding built up over many years and based largely on misconceptions . |
| 28 | In fact , the work was never really completed , additions simply being made over many years as the need for extra wards arose . |
| 29 | It provided employment for many hands over many decades , eventually being taken over by Kleeman Ltd , which later became part of the Mobil Chemicals group . |
| 30 | The Golden Lion is said to have had a gallery but nothing now remains , though it has been referred to by word of mouth over many years . |