Example sentences of "[adj] over a [noun sg] of " 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 loans would be repayable over a period of 20 years at 3.5 per cent interest . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This proved difficult and Josef Vissarionovich had to be blown up little by little over a period of two weeks . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | By using examples taken at random over a period of years the following list has been assembled : |
| 14 | And so I wake in the night panic stricken over a lack of fuel . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The appearance of the new form was an abrupt event and the product was quite stable over a period of years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The European Community has put in place a range of measures which are capable over a period of time of leading to a solution . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | They were illiterate , mainly shamanist in religion and dominant over a number of other tribes in south-west Siberia . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was not surprising that the amount spent on exploration sank from $760 million in the still relatively fat year of 1979 to between $120 and $150 million at the end of the 1980s and the size of known reserves remained static over a period of at least four years . |
| 29 | The main provisions of the existing Acts covering health and safety , and regulations made under them , will be retained but will be amended , revised or repealed as necessary over a period of years . |
| 30 | When established during the 1940s , nationalised industries were instructed to operate in the ‘ public interest ’ and to break even over a period of years . |