Example sentences of "[adv] over a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some bank loans are provided in the form of a standby-credit or commitment which means a bank will provide funds if required to do so over a stated period , either on a fixed or floating rate basis . |
| 2 | Advisers say the change — aimed at meeting European Community moves towards equality for the sexes — should be phased in over a 15-year period . |
| 3 | The tax will be phased in over a three-year period from July 1994 . |
| 4 | Given that this reform will hit hardest those firms with most part-time workers , it is suggested that this change is phased in over a five-year period . |
| 5 | Bush did not indicate how the changes , which were to be phased in over a five-year period at a cost of up to $100,000 million , would be financed . |
| 6 | He did this willingly and without complaint , often coming in over a complete weekend in order to have all the new cards out by the end of August which was largely achieved . ’ |
| 7 | This level of pay was never conceived of as being a realizable objective for a statutory minimum wage that would be brought in over a short period of time . |
| 8 | The Special Advisory Board for the Army Medical Service had laid down as a basis for treatment ‘ a more or less continuous course of mercury by mouth for 1½ to 2 years ’ combined with mercurial ointment rubbed into the skin for 20 to 30 minutes daily over a six-week period . |
| 9 | Add the chopped pepper and the cumin seeds to the saucepan and bubble gently over a medium heat for 8–10 minutes until the pepper is soft . |
| 10 | Add the chopped pepper and the cumin seeds to the saucepan and bubble gently over a medium heat for 8–10 minutes until the pepper is soft . |
| 11 | Fry gently over a low heat for about 10 minutes . |
| 12 | When I came on deck to take my watch I found Viking swaying gently over a smooth swell , the cloud-wreathed Torridon mountains to port , and South Rona lighthouse fine on the starboard bow . |
| 13 | This has nothing to do with how policemen look nor even of never having heard of a bunch called James , who are apparently big stars , have their name emblazoned all over a chic t-shirt and of whom one had never heard till yesterday . |
| 14 | Chinese students sent to university in Russia demonstrated noisily on their cross-country train journeys and , on one occasion that shocked Khrushchev deeply , defecated all over a Mongolian station platform . |
| 15 | It was all over a Brazilian boy who looked after the props . |
| 16 | At the back there is a horizontal belt sleeve which allows it to be attached to a belt up to 70mm wide and there is also a vertical sleeve 50mm wide which permits it to be worn on its side or slid down over a vertical post for use as a permanent fixture at a centre or clubhouse . |
| 17 | In a gap in the trees I can now look down over a green vegetable pointillism of tree-tops , falling away down to the town . |
| 18 | To give or receive help , perhaps over a long period , which inevitably involves some self-sacrifice on the one hand and some loss of independence on the other , is a very big step . |
| 19 | Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time . |
| 20 | And the two of them working together over a long time , they would work |
| 21 | Make syrup by heating 225g ( 8oz ) caster sugar and 600ml ( 1 pint ) water together over a low heat , stir until sugar dissolves . |
| 22 | They were sitting together over a rough table in a room in a farmhouse outside Abergavenny . |
| 23 | Indy is a one-off ; to be a world champion in FI it takes putting all the marbles together over a whole season . |
| 24 | Remarkably , Kieslowski shot and edited the ten films back-to-back over a 21-month period using different cinematographers on each production . |
| 25 | Descent is made southwards over a pathless moor to a depression containing a small tarn and a wall that rises to the next height , Swarth Fell . |
| 26 | Goldman 's push had sent Helen backwards over a low wall , hips and legs one side , torso on the other . |
| 27 | The two square yards of broadloom devoted to the open hallway were almost blocked by a large bamboo plant , made of plastic , which waved majestically over a little fountain cascading water over two plastic shell-shaped basins which miraculously never overflowed . |
| 28 | These dimensions will offer just over a square metre or 11 sq ft of sail , more than enough for a kilobear . |
| 29 | It hit the green and finished down in the rough with the flag just over a little rise ( he was down in Duncan 's Hollow ) . |
| 30 | Lost John 's Cave is found very easily by rounding the end of the wall on the right and walking back alongside for 180 yards to a hollow where a small stream enters a black cavity in a low cliff ; a few yards further over a small rise is another less obvious orifice . |