Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A The use of sand directly over a sub gravel filter is not recommended . |
| 2 | Try reducing your use of salt slowly over a period of weeks and use flavouring substitutes like herbs , spices and lemon juice . |
| 3 | THE organisation representing rank and file members of the Republic 's army was up in arms today over a new security vetting procedure . |
| 4 | Students and staff at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education , many of them fellow members of the college rugby team , wept during a performance of Elton John 's Yellow Brick Road , the favourite tune of student , Murray Pugh , stabbed to death in Cheltenham just over a month ago . |
| 5 | Iran had boycotted the pilgrimage for the third consecutive year in protest both over a quota system limiting the number of pilgrims ( to an estimated 1,500,000 ) and over the Saudi ban on political protests during the pilgrimage . |
| 6 | We talked to nutters frequently over a period of two years and some were ‘ interviewed ’ in a more structured manner . |
| 7 | The action smacked too much of the grandiose , if futile , gesture of the French nobility at Crécy just over a century earlier . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But his stable revealed that the 10-year-old could be diverted to the Hackett Chase at Cheltenham tomorrow over a distance just over half a mile shorter than the Mackeson . |