Example sentences of "[noun sg] over a number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also cited his disappointment over a number of recent appointments made by the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | Both the Listening Test and the Grammar Test have been the subject of rigorous research over a number of years , with up to forty different nationalities of students . |
| 3 | Commonly claims range over a number of " points of claim " resulting in a large number of " heads of damage " under which the contractor claims to have suffered loss . |
| 4 | ‘ This is a continuation of the policy adopted by the business over a number of years . |
| 5 | Instead , a number of small changes in status and recognitions of the progress towards adult status takes place over a number of years . |
| 6 | A period of under-provision over a number of years is likely to be reflected on the shelves in subject gaps or in the poor physical condition of stock . |
| 7 | You know , on er , sort of long process over a number of years . |
| 8 | But this ignores the effect of new accounting rules set out in SSAP 24 , which require companies to spread a surplus over a number of years . |
| 9 | Another method is to take a sample of titles or subject areas and follow the progress of the sample over a number of years . |
| 10 | But this implies that a single random increase in aggregate demand in the current period can set up a serially correlated movement or boom in real output over a number of subsequent periods . |
| 11 | Moreover , even those studies where there does seem to be a clear relationship over a number of data points at different arousal levels ( e.g. Courts , 1942 ; Stennett , 1957 ; Bolanger & Feldman , described in Malmo 1959 ) can often be criticized for the possibility that the task used to induce arousal actually requires greater levels of attention at higher levels of arousal itself . |
| 12 | We can not do this overnight , but it can be achieved with gradual development over a number of years . |
| 13 | The Administration , moreover , while having the greatest influence in both judicial and church appointments , had sole control over a number of academic posts , which were also attractive to some of the freeholders , several of whom succeeded in obtaining university chairs . |
| 14 | You borrow at a fixed rate of interest and repay the loan over a number of years . |
| 15 | The improvements have come not in a dramatic way but week by week over a number of months . |
| 16 | Mr Grant said that his association and its members had contributed quite a lot of money for advice over a number of years . |
| 17 | It was a confusing hotch-potch , bought on impulse over a number of years without considering how it would all fit together . |
| 18 | This figure will be inflated by those who have attended more than once on a Sunday , but , provided that church-going habits do not change , you will still have an accurate trend measure over a number of years , which is our primary interest . |
| 19 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 20 | The Company Patrons have committed their organisations to give the association substantial , planned support over a number of years . |
| 21 | Examination of the school 's practices takes place in a planned approach over a number of years . |
| 22 | There is , however , concern over a number of points , particularly that sensationalised reporting of cases would damage the Institute and its members . |
| 23 | As we saw earlier , the fact that the producing units of an industry increase in size over a number of years may be explained by the functional relation between their size and the cost of production . |
| 24 | Rasmussen and Milner ( 1975 ) summarise data collected in their clinic over a number of years ' use of the Amytal test ( see Wada and Rasmussen , 1960 ; Branch , Milner and Rasmussen , 1964 ) . |
| 25 | This committee working party with a small budget has nonetheless through sharing funding with these other agencies has had it prum pump priming achievement of er creating a very successful project throughout the city over a number of years . |
| 26 | Caldwell and Spinks ( 1988 ) describe an Australian school which established such a model over a number of years . |
| 27 | If so , they would be prepared to supply further evidence of use of the path over a number of years . |
| 28 | These results come from a wide variety of sources , ranging from laboratory experiments using electric shocks to analyses of one person 's memory over a number of years , from experimental subjects ’ memories of autopsy slides to normal people 's memory for hearing about Kennedy 's assassination . |
| 29 | His expertise as a children 's bookseller was highly valued by his colleagues , and he made a great contribution over a number of years to the work of the BA 's Children 's Executive , as a member and , more recently , as a vice-chairman . |
| 30 | And it is possible to help by a low-key , unthreatening , gradual approach , building trust over a number of months . |