Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 2 | Barclays Bank would not divulge its figures despite repeated requests over a period of three weeks . |
| 3 | He said it would change and tone a man in three five-minute sessions over a period of a week . |
| 4 | As an example of the use to which these options were put in deciding the future lines of investigation in the project , it quickly became apparent by computing improved pictures over a range of plant ages and displaying the changes , that the measure of the changes was never likely to be large , and that the changes were not all in one direction . |
| 5 | People have made wonderful toys in a lot of different places over a period of time . |
| 6 | Now the Col des Cavales is an important pass to the Pave hut beside its deep blue , ice-infested lake , but it 's loose and nasty in the late afternoon : rusty cables hang from broken bolts over a parody of a path , so without axes we kicked down steep slush and bucket-stepped , slippery ice . |
| 7 | Grassland option : Grass cover of different lengths over a field . |
| 8 | They would shake their empty hands over a barrel lined with tinfoil , from which he could at a later date draw out benison . |
| 9 | He draped his wet clothes over a chair in front of the stove and ladled rice and beans on to two plates . |
| 10 | Through the creation and use of databases in a number of different contexts over a period of time , pupils develop an awareness of the microcomputer as an information handling tool rather than a games machine or programming instrument , while , at the same time , developing valuable learning skills . |
| 11 | The experiments hit the scientific and popular headlines over a number of years before falling into disrepute when others found it quite hard even to train flatworms reliably on this pairing , let alone repeat the later steps in the procedure . |
| 12 | It ran for four separate days over a period of weeks , followed by an exam when all managed to pass . |
| 13 | Rachaela walked through into the doctor 's room , which was quite large , with netted windows over a garden . |
| 14 | Figure 8 is an example of such a study which recorded and classified accidents over a period of time . |
| 15 | I began to fear that he would fire , and a small sober part of my brain registered just how foolish this confrontation was ; a contest caused solely by two male egos over a girl sworn to celibacy . |
| 16 | What you should look for is evidence of good , consistent results over a period of 10 to 20 years . |
| 17 | JAGUAR and General Motors were last night locked in crucial talks over a deal which would safeguard the luxury car maker from being taken over by the rival US motor giant Ford . |
| 18 | When she and Sir John were married in 1937 , they inherited a large Victorian house with fine views over a park framed by forest trees and the rolling Devon hills beyond . |
| 19 | Twelve hares were roasting on forked twigs over a charcoal fire . |
| 20 | The Medical Correspondent of the UK Sunday Times reported in May 1990 that the anti-oestrogen drug , tamoxifen , used for several years to treat women actually suffering from breast-cancer , is now to be tested on 30,000 human subjects over a period of five years to assess its potential as a preventative of the disease in healthy women . |
| 21 | Hanson has been built up into one of Britain 's leading companies over a period of twenty years based on an acquisition philosophy which involves a reduction in the acquired company 's bureaucracy , devolution of responsibility to local managers , a tight control of capital expenditure and a disposal of some of the peripheral assets which are not part of the company 's ‘ core activities ’ . |
| 22 | But the main idea in the Green Paper was to replace domestic rates over a period of years by a community charge . |
| 23 | Any body left in this room will be digested by fungal enzymes over a period of D4+1 days , depending on size , and organic equipment left here — leather , sacking , cloth , etc. — will likewise be digested in 24 hours . |
| 24 | It is only after the Glorious Revolution — with the emergence of regular sessions of Parliament , when much of the ordinary business of government ( as opposed to just crisis situations ) came to be conducted along party lines , when Parliamentary divisions over a range of issues allow us to see the consistency of party allegiance amongst MPs , and when the parties came to develop fairly sophisticated organisational structures for the pursuit of their political goals — that it is possible to talk of a two-party system . |
| 25 | She wore a long black jacket dotted with outsize white buttons over a skirt of broad black and white stripes last night . |
| 26 | Roy Coyle , who watched two of his first team squad sustain fractured legs over a five-day period last week , made a bold move into the transfer market on Thursday and signed former Sunderland midfielder , Paul Lemon for an initial period of a month . |
| 27 | The usual procedure is for a sample , which is then referred to as the ‘ panel ’ , to be selected in the usual way , as described on pp. 35–9 above , and for data about this sample to be collected at regular intervals over a period of years . |
| 28 | Indeed , the reaction is frequently performed by passing the reacting gases over a bed of the catalyst supported on some inert material . |
| 29 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 30 | To place a detailed analysis in context it is necessary to look at trends in key figures over a number of years and to make comparisons with other firms in the same industry . |