Example sentences of "[adj] over a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Other changes in structure developed more slowly , but although the pattern looked different over a period of a few years , analogues of the basic groups seem to have been present ever since the phenomenon of the contemporary football fan arose in the middle to late 1960s .
2 Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington .
3 It catalogued ‘ positively dangerous ’ work practices , poor management , inadequate training and supervision and inherent weakness in the safety culture of BR in a list of 16 separate ‘ relevant errors ’ where things had gone wrong over a number of years .
4 Too much sunlight might impress upon me the idea of how much more agreeable it would be out of doors rather than hunched over a sheet of almost blank paper .
5 A particular scene appeared before her eyes : her father is sitting hunched over a pile of torn photographs , and Agnes 's sister is shouting at him : ‘ Why have you torn up Mother 's pictures ?
6 Later , the project was able to borrow a more advanced flux-gate magnetometer and the preliminary conclusions from Rodney Hale , an experienced electronics engineer , as a result of further work , are that there is a magnetic field within the circle which fluctuates relative to that outside over a period of hours .
7 If you are unsuccessful over a period of time there 's always a chance you will part company . ’
8 The Test of Professional Competence , for building surveyors , first introduced in 1973 , has remained unchanged over a period during which many other changes both technological and sociological have taken place within the Division .
9 The loans would be repayable over a period of 20 years at 3.5 per cent interest .
10 Rudolph Ackermann issued some fifty books with coloured plates , including the well-known Repository of Arts , Literature , Commerce , Manufacture , and Politics , which appeared monthly over a period of nearly twenty years .
11 The cause of deterioration is mainly due to the covering becoming thin and brittle because of weathering i.e. the action of heat and cold over a period of time .
12 This proved difficult and Josef Vissarionovich had to be blown up little by little over a period of two weeks .
13 The position of the Central Authority was strong : they were responsible for the Boards as a whole breaking-even over a period of years ; their approval was required for capital and current expenditure ; and they raised the capital and controlled the reserves and bank-balances of the Boards .
14 By using examples taken at random over a period of years the following list has been assembled :
15 And so I wake in the night panic stricken over a lack of fuel .
16 Here , however , we write it as an integral over a portion of the 3N-dimensional configuration space represented by the N vectors rj and the 3 coordinates required for the specification of each one .
17 Because the microscope gives an image which is fuzzy over a distance of the size of the wavelength of the light being used , if we want to measure the position more accurately we must decrease the wavelength .
18 THE NORTH coast of Scotland faces the Arctic over a distance of seventy miles and is terminated abruptly by Cape Wrath in the west and Duncansby Head near John o' Groats in the east .
19 When an element can exist in two or more allotropic forms each of which is stable over a range of conditions , it is said to exhibit enantiotropy .
20 The appearance of the new form was an abrupt event and the product was quite stable over a period of years .
21 Many players , as it happened , were coming near to the age of retirement , so it was possible over a period of six or seven years to make the orchestra young again .
22 Under the Wedgwood Savings Related Share Option Scheme , options were outstanding over a total of 13,974,414 Ordinary Shares at a price of 14.5p Sterling , exercisable under normal circumstances within the period of six months from 14 December 1995 ; over 2,351,041 Ordinary Shares at a price of 29p Sterling , exercisable under normal circumstances within a period of six months from 1 January 1997 or 1 January 1999 , depending on the savings period ; and over 4,896,200 Ordinary Shares at a price of 12.5p Sterling , exercisable under normal circumstances within a period of six months from 1 November 1997 or 1 November 1999 , depending on the savings period .
23 The design aim at the beginning of this project was to have a power supply adjustable over a range of about 5V to 15V which regulated well with a maximum current output of about 5A .
24 Mr Elliot Bernerd , head of Chesfield commented , ‘ We are one of a group of shareholders and have never agreed to make capital available over a period of years .
25 The European Community has put in place a range of measures which are capable over a period of time of leading to a solution .
26 Resting his weight on his bended knee , he was staring motionless over a precipice towards the lake .
27 Thus when endothelium was stripped from rabbit aorta in vivo prostacyclin production at the luminal surface of the vessel was virtually absent and recovery of prostacyclin production was slow over a period of 70 days coinciding with the appearance of neointimal cells ( Eldor et al , 1981 ) .
28 They were illiterate , mainly shamanist in religion and dominant over a number of other tribes in south-west Siberia .
29 There is also an a la carte restaurant , a popular bar , a sunbathing terrace , a small TV lounge and a cafe terrace which is ideal for lingering over a drink in the sunshine .
30 Jezrael swung herself breathless over a bar of rock and down into the wind-shadow of a huge erratic that faced the sharp-cut sunrise .
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