Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fingers stirred lazily against her skin , and she clamped her teeth together over a gasp . |
| 2 | Whey-faced and wobbling , she slowly rises to a kneeling position behind the chair and peers out over a rampart of faded chintz , searching the room for the source of my voice . |
| 3 | We talked to nutters frequently over a period of two years and some were ‘ interviewed ’ in a more structured manner . |
| 4 | The action smacked too much of the grandiose , if futile , gesture of the French nobility at Crécy just over a century earlier . |
| 5 | The suspension of the armed struggle just over a month ago was seen as a break-through , but within days , peace seemed as far away as ever . |
| 6 | In the past New Zealand have insisted that the Cup would be at stake only over a Test series , or in a one-off Test . |
| 7 | Instead of retreating instead of going underground instead of accepting that the situation had become extremely difficult and it was necessary to try and rebuild their organization and their influence gradually over a period of time , they committed their shattered forces to further battles and more or less completed er their destruction . |
| 8 | It is perhaps partly for this reason that these models have been largely concerned with the short term economic outlook ie over a horizon of up to three years . |
| 9 | IT 'S DIFFICULT to come up with a definitive explanation as to why , but the music industry is currently going through its worst trough in over a decade . |
| 10 | Now , having beaten West Indies three times in quick succession after not having beaten them for years , outclassing New Zealand 2–0 out there , the first team in over a decade to win a Test rubber there , and of course reaching the World Cup final , England are now a force to be reckoned with . |
| 11 | Aim to alter your diet gradually over a period of six months . |
| 12 | EX-BOXER Danny McAlinden , 44 , got a suspended nine months ' jail yesterday over a pub brawl at Walworth , south London . |
| 13 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 14 | Musicale was blocked for a run in the home straight and it was not until Pat Eddery secured an opening just over a furlong out that the filly looked likely to cut down Lord Huntingdon 's Wiedniu . |
| 15 | THE Manchester United footballer Viv Anderson was given a public apology and undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story in the Daily Star concerning a post-match clash between Anderson and the Wimbledon player John Fashanu . |
| 16 | ALISTAIR Bell , whose wife was found murdered in a sports centre car park , won undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story linking him with her death . |
| 17 | There is no close accounting of who owes what to whom but there is a tacit understanding by all concerned that there is a moral obligation to balance things out over a period . |
| 18 | The cumulative effect , however , of attending to such questions consistently over a period of time is considerable and , as teachers agree , eventually time-saving . |
| 19 | Hong Kong : Surged in the strongest trading volume in over a month . |
| 20 | It was a winter of doubt and uncertainty and the young Provencal only knew he had a ride just over a month before Suzuka . |
| 21 | After rescuing McAllister just over a fortnight ago , he had told himself firmly , This must stop ! and himself had refused to listen . |
| 22 | Goulding 's move leaves Wigan 's £75,000 scrum half Andy Gregory in limbo with the new season just over a fortnight away . |
| 23 | With the new grand prix season just over a month away , Britain 's Nigel Mansell believes ninety two could be his year to win the drivers ' championship . |
| 24 | Sport , and with the new football season just over a month old , Oxford United Football Club probably feels they 've had enough problems to last them for a lifetime . |
| 25 | ‘ People say luck levels out over a season , so hopefully our luck will change . |
| 26 | They are Luddites well over a century before the term was coined . |
| 27 | A medieval visitor to Cambridge would have passed twelve churches as he walked through the town , roughly a hundred yards apart over a stretch of a mile ; and Cambridge was a very modest town . |
| 28 | We had the experience , sometimes agreeable , often traumatic , of meeting with the doctors constantly over a period , usually at the headquarters of BUPA in Essex Street , adjoining my office in Little Essex Street . |
| 29 | Amid some of the tightest security seen in the province in recent years , hundreds of mourners made their way from his Tirkane Road home to St Patrick 's Church just over a mile away . |
| 30 | ESTHER Rantzen 's That 's Life show was rapped by TV watchdogs yesterday over a sketch showing a ‘ blind ’ man falling over a wall . |