Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jason jumped out of the passenger seat and over a hedge to escape . |
| 2 | Steep paths lead down through the landscaped gardens and over a foot-bridge to the main building directly across the road . |
| 3 | A path leads from the car park through the brambles and over a rock slap stile to enter open fields and descent to a lesser ruined mine building . |
| 4 | Also studied were the consistency of performance of individuals within and between topics , between mode of assessment and over a period of time . |
| 5 | This stage is followed by a search for means to implement the desired change and over a period of time a cycle of problems are handled by this method . |
| 6 | From here you cross the road and go through an iron gate following the path west to pass a cottage and over a bridge . |
| 7 | This may be in a particular meeting or over a period of time . |
| 8 | In Woodrow , it was held that affray is a continuing offence , so that where an indictment charged the defendants with a single offence and particularised several incidents that had occurred at different places and over a period of several hours , the indictment was not bad for duplicity . |
| 9 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 10 | The third type requires such intervention but over a period of years , usually nearly into adolescence , and often there is never complete resolution . |
| 11 | According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies . |
| 12 | And we had to do it over a week and over a month because some weeks you do things that do n't do |
| 13 | He is sure to outspeed his rivals in the St Modwen Novices ' Hurdle ( 12.30 ) on ideal ground and over a trip that is certain to suit . |
| 14 | The news media learned of the arrests next morning and over a number of days outraged protests went up from loyalist spokesmen , including leaders of loyalist political parties and Andrew Beattie 's colleagues on the Constitutional Stoppage Central Co-ordinating Committee . |
| 15 | Most of these businesses were on such a small scale that over a half of them built no more than six houses during these three years and nearly three-quarters built no more than twelve ; the bankruptcy rate was high . |
| 16 | The inhalation of iodine-131 could cause thyroid cancer in people as far away as 24 km , and there is a 20 per cent probability that over a period of 10–20 years between 1000 and 10,000 people could develop thyroid cancer ( less than 10 per cent of these would be fatal cancers ) . |
| 17 | He has an impressive command of the literature of both art and optical science across much of Europe and over a span of four centuries . |
| 18 | A small road ran across the bridge , through the fields and over a hill . |
| 19 | Swirling in an army Chinook helicopter through wind and fog and over a sea of smouldering lava yesterday , it was easy to see why earlier plans to bomb or mine it off course and up on to the surface have been shelved . |
| 20 | The intention here was to allow the interviewer to simulate a conversation and over a period move towards a more symmetrical interactive relationship so that this interviewing style came to resemble participant observation . |