Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These include such essentials as a preliminary sounding meeting with the head and whoever else is part of the school 's senior management ( i.e. anyone in a position to further the aims of the group ) to secure their sanction and support ; and an introductory meeting with as many of the staff as possible and manageable , for instance over a working lunch , regardless of who will eventually join the group , so that everybody knows what it will be about and interest is generated even in those who may not wish to join it . |
| 2 | It has to do with short-term planning and public accounting systems , which mean that , although money can in theory be voted for projects over a number of years , in practice , it usually arrives in annual dribs and drabs . |
| 3 | The idea of an evening get-together for clients over a couple of drinks in the Branch is obviously a non-Banker concept . |
| 4 | Most funding agencies are , understandably , unwilling to take on a commitment to pay for research over a period of perhaps twenty years or more . |
| 5 | If you mark your weight on a graph or chart this should provide a clear and rewarding sign of progress over a period of weeks and months . |
| 6 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |
| 7 | Chairman can I er suggest to these results of course over a period and I 'd like to see |
| 8 | After that going for gold involves participating in a wide range of activities over a period of at least 18 months . |
| 9 | A number of steps involving work on crystals , yeast cells , thymus cells and mouse cells , in relation to transmissions of patterns over a distance , led to amazing discoveries . |
| 10 | The contrasts sound even more spectacular if the changes are expressed in terms of experience over a lifetime . |
| 11 | This case , in effect , turns on whether the family proceedings court can keep the power of review over a care order by making directions in relation to the care order . |
| 12 | They have an album of photos showing the house at different stages of completion over a period of 18 months . |
| 13 | One can think of laying a graph of words over a graph of lower-level units such as phonemes . |
| 14 | Inserts to b and c show the changes expected in the Pb isotopic composition of a model array of data over a period of 130Myr with μ ( 238 U/ 204 Pb ) values comparable to those found in the erupted basalts . |
| 15 | It created a wide divergence of attitude over a range of policy issues , generated acute mutual suspicion , and prevented either capital from providing a core around which the nation 's business community could coalesce . |
| 16 | If the flat only has one entrance/exit ( which it will because it is not on the ground floor ) , it should have a fire escape , or some means of escape over a balcony or roof . |
| 17 | She waited to see if he would explain anything about himself , but he simply sipped his cold beer in silence , idly watching a group of children playing see-saw with a plank of wood over a tree stump . |
| 18 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 19 | Her whole adult life was a triumph of determination over a body that could have condemned her to permanent invalidism . |
| 20 | ‘ Now all she needs is a bit of work over a mile and a quarter on Tuesday and she 'll be ready for Longchamp . |
| 21 | The proposal is to guarantee a place on ET , or any other training , education , pre-employment course , for those who have been out of work over a set period of time . |
| 22 | But this is surely nitpicking , in what can be viewed as a significant contribution to our knowledge of so many aspects relating to the ordinary citizens of Florence over a period of more than 200 years . |
| 23 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 24 | Five Cabinet ministers resigned on July 26-27 when Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti called a vote of confidence over a media bill . |
| 25 | A period of under-provision over a number of years is likely to be reflected on the shelves in subject gaps or in the poor physical condition of stock . |
| 26 | Bjornbye could then step straight in against Crystal Palace in the Coca-Cola Cup replay on Tuesday despite fears over a head injury suffered a week ago . |
| 27 | The group says that the survival of evidence over a period of years defies expectations and improves the prospects for enforcement of the recently signed international Chemical Weapons Convention ( see Nature 361 , 105 ; 1993 ) . |
| 28 | An innkeeper , as we have seen , is under a duty to provide reasonable refreshment if so required and accommodation to a traveller ; hence , the innkeeper has a right of lien over a traveller 's property as well as over a guests ' to ensure that the traveller 's bill is duly paid . |
| 29 | Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years . |
| 30 | It related to an incident last August in Manchester Road Swindon when Mr Neilsen threw a bucket of water over a prostitute , Rachel Symonds . |