Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The idea of an evening get-together for clients over a couple of drinks in the Branch is obviously a non-Banker concept . |
| 3 | After that going for gold involves participating in a wide range of activities over a period of at least 18 months . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One can think of laying a graph of words over a graph of lower-level units such as phonemes . |
| 6 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Undertake the management of the care of a group of patients over a period of time and organise the appropriate support service . |
| 10 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 11 | The period affects all young people and involves a series of stages over a number of years , which are influenced by social and economic status . |
| 12 | Other studies have surveyed panels of respondents over a period of time — though few have physiological measures of health ( such as changes in blood pressure ) or doctors diagnoses , and most use self-report questionnaires of one sort or another . |
| 13 | This study focuses upon a number of children over a period of up to 40 months beginning early in their final year at school and covering the transitional period that follows . |
| 14 | The star of the Volkswagen adverts , who earns £1,000 a day , has paid only £21.50 of fees over a court case , says the company . |
| 15 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |
| 16 | This seems to be at variance with John Jones where a number of incidents over a period were held to be duplicitously charged as a single count of affray . |
| 17 | In addition , HARPY limited the average number of competitors over a stretch of speech and also constrained their identity , thereby ensuring that the items were easily discriminable as measured by their acoustic match scores . |
| 18 | His leader 's menace and awe was able to transmit itself thousands of miles over a telephone line , such was his presence . |
| 19 | Girls have been seen in Italy , spinning with spindles over a balcony , while their sisters sat knitting below , which lends support to such a theory . |
| 20 | maintaining contact with families over a period of time |
| 21 | Even after living with Apaches over a month and after all the things they must have done to her . |
| 22 | For example , banks grant personal loans to customers to be repaid in instalments over a set number of years ( typically six months to five years ) . |
| 23 | The purchaser of a life assurance contract does not make one payment at the beginning of the contract but pays a premium in instalments over a number of years . |
| 24 | This is a major project which will be introduced in phases over a number of years . |
| 25 | It is of critical importance with respect to the registration of company charges since charges created by a company over its assets are treated differently from charges over a company 's assets arising other than by the creation of the company . |
| 26 | Storage space had to be found for this unusually large collection of books which arrived in batches over a period of weeks . |
| 27 | Even so — its a bit rough to judge him on performances over a couple of weeks against the same side/player . |
| 28 | The Secretary of State for the Environment told the House of Commons that ‘ after taking legal advice ’ he had decided that ‘ the term ‘ maximum admissible concentration ’ in the European Community Drinking Water Directive should relate to individual samples and not to averages over a period ’ . |
| 29 | Since females in these species become available to males over a period of weeks or months , the possibility exists for some males to mate with several females during the course of a breeding season . |
| 30 | The hon. Member for Blackburn produces wholly fictitious figures which compare the new building costs for new schools or for the conversion of schools to CTCs over a period of three years with the capital expenditure borrowing guidelines for 14 authorities in one year . |