Example sentences of "[noun prp] over a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Itzhak Shamir , the Prime Minister and Likud leader , announced at the end of a Cabinet meeting on Dec. 31 that he was dismissing Weizmann from the Cabinet , claiming that Weizmann had maintained contacts with the PLO over a period of time . |
| 2 | Einstein learnt the mathematical techniques he needed from his friend Marcel Grossman over a number of years when they both lived in Zurich and regarded the techniques primarily as useful tools . |
| 3 | The stardom sort of crept up on Nicholson over a period of weeks . |
| 4 | But this is surely nitpicking , in what can be viewed as a significant contribution to our knowledge of so many aspects relating to the ordinary citizens of Florence over a period of more than 200 years . |
| 5 | Will the Prime Minister confirm that he personally was informed about British Steel 's decision to close Ravenscraig over a fortnight before the official announcement last week and that instead of trying to reverse the decision , he and the Secretary of State for Scotland took part in a conspiracy of silence ? |
| 6 | ‘ Maybe it was n't the wisest thing to have done , ’ Lisa reflected to Josey over a cup of tea that evening . |
| 7 | There was a major outcry in early February over a decision by officials of the Foreign Affairs and Interior ministries to allow George Habash , the leader of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) , to enter France on Jan. 29 for medical treatment . |
| 8 | More than 300 workers have been on strike since 29 January over a dispute about enforced lay-offs . |
| 9 | Remarkable posters designed from his Brighton Studio for the Academy Cinema in Oxford Street over a period of forty years — each in effect a ‘ portrait ’ of the film . |
| 10 | Fur example the devaluation of sterling in 1967 was mainly the consequence of higher inflation in the UK over a number of years than that experienced by her major trading partners . |
| 11 | In tests at the Australian National University in Canberra , soya beans , rice and peas were given repeated low-level bursts of uv-B over a six- to eight-week period . |
| 12 | From this source they spread by exchange networks as far as north Poland and the Ile-de-France over a radius as the crow flies of more than 1700 km . |
| 13 | THE CONTROVERSY in Norway over a bounty of £2000 , placed on the head of one of the country 's last wolves , has had to be settled at cabinet level . |
| 14 | In this way many kept an account going at Gieves over a period of years for a modest monthly sum of two or three pounds . |
| 15 | Meirion Rowlands , one of the Ashleys ' most key appointments of this time , was well known as the local prizewinning sheep shearer ; he met Bernard over a pint in the pub . |
| 16 | Yes one of the er sad things about Harlow youth theatre which many of you will remember er was sole run so successfully by Roger over a number of years . |
| 17 | TWO Irishmen have declared war on Britain over a lump of rock . |
| 18 | Fig. 9.1 Age-sex profiles for Great Britain over a period of 130 years . |
| 19 | In each case a small working party met within SHHD over a period of a number of months . |
| 20 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 21 | Plants in some 34 families were used in Borneo over a period of 16 months and all but 5 were sources of fruit . |
| 22 | 1979 ) to measure the time delay for reflections from Mars over a period of 14 months . |
| 23 | Following an enforced climb-down by Palmerston over a scheme by Hall for military bands in the Royal Parks on Sundays , the cordiality between the two men seems to have evaporated , and on 13th October , 1856 , Palmerston sent Hall a blunt admonition over the Government Offices . |
| 24 | They therefore disagreed with St Germain over a number of fundamentals : their view of the Revolution ; their view of the constitution ; the advisability of an attempted military solution ; their attitude towards France ; and , perhaps most importantly , their attitude towards Catholicism . |
| 25 | ‘ Travelling on the train to and from Folkestone and London over a period of months I knitted a bright pink jumper . |
| 26 | The tiny Aussie star , who scored 17 smash hits with svengali Pete Waterman 's record label PWL over a period of five years , admits : ‘ I was bored with being told to smile and go out and make money . ’ |
| 27 | The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection is a collection of paintings acquired by Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza over a number of years , by inheritance or purchase . |
| 28 | A series of sales will cover works of art from China , Korea , Japan and India over a number of days . |
| 29 | The measure of life events used was one which had been developed by Brown over a number of years and represents a major methodological improvement over previous approaches . |
| 30 | It is a 15 inch gauge railway opened in 1990 and connects the two towns of Wroxham and Aylesham over a distance of some nine miles . |