Example sentences of "[prep] over a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After over a decade of fighting , Basil defeated Samuilo at the battle of Kleidon in 1014 . |
| 2 | Most of them are not able to manage the walk of over a mile to the A6 to catch the Lancaster- Preston bus |
| 3 | The walk of over a mile to the nearest bus stop on the A6 can be very off-putting in bad weather . |
| 4 | Like her earlier Stand We At Last , which told the story of over a century of Western feminism , Daddy 's Girls shows Zoë Fairbairns to be adept at recreating detail and charting the changes in character 's lives as years pass . |
| 5 | The cornerstone of over a century of Russian diplomacy was laid with the signing of a formal alliance with Austria in 1726 . |
| 6 | The poor girl had gone off to her camp before she had formulated any hypotheses ; she had no idea as to what theory or concepts her work was to throw new light on , and so , to be on the safe side , she had recorded everything she could think of over a period of about six weeks and her notebooks practically filled a medium-sized suitcase . |
| 7 | The coats were ornately if not fabulously stitched with over a mile of gold thread . |
| 8 | Might this , one wonders , be one of the names that Albert Gunther so helpfully supplied Gould with over a chop at the British Museum ? |
| 9 | Moran 's commitment was legendary in over a decade at Old Trafford and nothing has changed . |
| 10 | In more recent times it was important for over a century for one reason : it was supported by Sir Isaac Newton . |
| 11 | Be that as it may , Arnold 's and Van Praagh 's schools laid the foundations for over a century of controversy and the beginning of the end of sign-language-dominated educational systems . |
| 12 | Trade with Russia might survive if the Muscovy Company went out of business , but it was not easy to imagine that trade with Hudson Bay ( with all that it did for London furriers and re-exporters ) could continue if the Company lost its trading rights , and the Royal African Company was believed to be necessary for the slave trade until the 1690s , and the East India Company kept its position in trade with India for over a century after that . |
| 13 | Her iconography remained more or less constant for over a century until the period of the Napoleonic Wars , at the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | The reef , described by the World Conservation Union as more diverse than Australia 's Great Barrier reef , has been threatened for over a decade by the proposed building of a second airport for the island . |
| 15 | Railway No. 3 was to run for over a mile across the open space known as Mitcham Common and was intended as a link between Mitcham and Croydon , with little expectation of intermediate traffic . |
| 16 | The ‘ wanted to sell ’ ads stretched for pages , and one main street consisted of wall-to-wall car lots for over a mile on both sides ! |
| 17 | Evans , missing for over a season after failing to agree a contract with Saints , has been caught playing for Grenoble against Toulon . |
| 18 | The measure was primarily designed to raise an additional US$500,000,000 to finance pay increases for 260,000 teachers ( on strike for over a month for an 800 per cent pay rise ) and 85,000 health workers ( on strike for three months for a minimum wage increase of 200 per cent ) . |
| 19 | Woodland , 26 , watched by rugby league clubs Bradford Northern and Hull early in the season , has been out for over a month with a broken right hand . |
| 20 | Most importantly the Chardonnay in the grand cru sector has risen from nearly a third to over a half of the vines cultivated , while in the premiers crus it has dropped from just under a half to less than 40% . |
| 21 | You may be amazed that such an obvious shortcoming to a staff plan should have continued to escape my notice , but then you will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time ; one is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event . |
| 22 | so they 've all we 've all been vetted over over a number of years . |
| 23 | And she 'd I think she had about eight , over over a period of years you know . |