Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suspension of the armed struggle just over a month ago was seen as a break-through , but within days , peace seemed as far away as ever . |
| 2 | In the past New Zealand have insisted that the Cup would be at stake only over a Test series , or in a one-off Test . |
| 3 | Instead of retreating instead of going underground instead of accepting that the situation had become extremely difficult and it was necessary to try and rebuild their organization and their influence gradually over a period of time , they committed their shattered forces to further battles and more or less completed er their destruction . |
| 4 | It is perhaps partly for this reason that these models have been largely concerned with the short term economic outlook ie over a horizon of up to three years . |
| 5 | IT 'S DIFFICULT to come up with a definitive explanation as to why , but the music industry is currently going through its worst trough in over a decade . |
| 6 | Now , having beaten West Indies three times in quick succession after not having beaten them for years , outclassing New Zealand 2–0 out there , the first team in over a decade to win a Test rubber there , and of course reaching the World Cup final , England are now a force to be reckoned with . |
| 7 | Aim to alter your diet gradually over a period of six months . |
| 8 | EX-BOXER Danny McAlinden , 44 , got a suspended nine months ' jail yesterday over a pub brawl at Walworth , south London . |
| 9 | Musicale was blocked for a run in the home straight and it was not until Pat Eddery secured an opening just over a furlong out that the filly looked likely to cut down Lord Huntingdon 's Wiedniu . |
| 10 | THE Manchester United footballer Viv Anderson was given a public apology and undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story in the Daily Star concerning a post-match clash between Anderson and the Wimbledon player John Fashanu . |
| 11 | ALISTAIR Bell , whose wife was found murdered in a sports centre car park , won undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story linking him with her death . |
| 12 | Hong Kong : Surged in the strongest trading volume in over a month . |
| 13 | It was a winter of doubt and uncertainty and the young Provencal only knew he had a ride just over a month before Suzuka . |
| 14 | Goulding 's move leaves Wigan 's £75,000 scrum half Andy Gregory in limbo with the new season just over a fortnight away . |
| 15 | With the new grand prix season just over a month away , Britain 's Nigel Mansell believes ninety two could be his year to win the drivers ' championship . |
| 16 | Sport , and with the new football season just over a month old , Oxford United Football Club probably feels they 've had enough problems to last them for a lifetime . |
| 17 | Amid some of the tightest security seen in the province in recent years , hundreds of mourners made their way from his Tirkane Road home to St Patrick 's Church just over a mile away . |
| 18 | Ben , aged 3 years , started to refuse food gradually over a period of months . |
| 19 | Together they support multiple authors working on different aspects of an application simultaneously over a network . |
| 20 | Leaving aside those equity partners who , exceptionally , are never obliged to put cash into the firm , as mentioned in Chapter 4 , the choice lies between : ( 1 ) seeking capital contributions when the new partner joins the firm , he borrowing the amount required as necessary ; or ( 2 ) allowing the new member of the firm to buy his way in over a period out of his profit share , appropriate restrictions on his drawings being imposed as " security " for the agreed payments . |
| 21 | The clerk touched each elector on the head , and counted each poll aloud over a megaphone . |
| 22 | In the 1890s the Central Station was constructed , and in 1905 two more branch lines extended among the factories and workshops of the Lower City , and a third snaked its way out over a drawbridge and a railway ferry to the island of Ostrów . |
| 23 | Sweden recognised the problem well over a decade ago and began legislation to limit the allowed dose ; it has the most advanced testing programme in Europe with well over 70000 homes measured and over 2000 remedied . |
| 24 | Try reducing your use of salt slowly over a period of weeks and use flavouring substitutes like herbs , spices and lemon juice . |
| 25 | Now , for the first time in over a decade there is uncertainty over the Chelsea veteran 's inclusion . |
| 26 | The new synthetic pitch at the Jordanstown campus has attracted the prestigious tournament to Northern Ireland for the first time in over a decade , and the impressive facilities at the campus will be used together with the new pitch at Valley Leisure Centre . |
| 27 | An exhibition that brings together ( for the first time in over a century ) the Pre-Raphaelites ' paintings , sculpture and decorative arts that decorated the houses of the region 's Victorian industrialists and entrepreneurs . |
| 28 | These two documents provided , for the first time in over a century , a summary of the various arguments on the subject of a national audit office . |
| 29 | Large areas of western Scotland , mid- and North Wales and the upland zones of the North and South West of England have exhibited population gains , in some cases for the first time in over a century . |
| 30 | The old man , propped in his chair for the first time in over a month , laid a trembling hand on the babe 's head . |