Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] over a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 decorative mirror , with or without a frame , is the type you would normally hand on a bedroom or living room wall , or perhaps over a mantlepiece to reflect the room .
2 A currency which gradually adjusts up or down over a period of time , depending on the intrinsic strength of the economy which supports it , is much less likely to attract the eye of the speculator than one which is about to burst the artificial dam which has been built around it .
3 Examples to show the difference from unnecessary obstruction include leaving a vehicle around a blind bend , or just over a humped-back bridge etc .
4 unc unc A metre is about 39.4 inches or slightly over a yard in length .
5 Using its Dynamic Data Exchange ( DDE ) client and server capabilities , complex applications can be built to run locally ( or even over a network ) .
6 In general if an illness has appeared rapidly and vigorously over a matter of hours then one should look for a cause in the preceding few hours or day at the most .
7 They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home .
8 She was desperately thirsty and perhaps over a drink Fernando would calm down enough to open the gates for her to drive out and back to Palma .
9 It is much better to build up endurance levels gradually and gently over a period of weeks and months .
10 It is surrounded by beautiful gardens and many fruit trees and is set 500 metres from the sea and just over a mile down hill from Taormina .
11 Close to the port , with its large yacht harbour , and just over a mile from the attractive centre of Caorle , this modern hotel complex overlooks its own private beach from a lovely garden setting .
12 At the time when the Home Support Project first collected information about them , the majority got some informal care at least four days a week , ( three-quarters in the Ipswich control group and the Newham action group , two-thirds in the Ipswich action group and just over a half in the Newham control group ) .
13 ‘ Once when the Yard needed advice over a fraud case , and once over a theft ! ’
14 Another feat of walking was undertaken by Harry Baker , who having a brother in Hastings would , at the turn of the century , visit his brother walking there and back over a weekend .
15 And even over a period as long as 15 years we would be paying a lot less ( £184 millions ) than the £684 millions that will go next year to safeguard the Falkland Islands from the Argentinians — a matter which many ecologists see as a fight between two bald men over the possession of a comb .
16 couple of things we saw each other and then over a space of about two months we saw each other probably about three times
17 You will need to spray at three day intervals at least three or four times , but preferably over a period of several weeks to control any new pests as soon as they hatch , before they can reproduce .
18 For l/d = 540 , the range has been observed to start at a Reynolds number ( based on a velocity averaged not only over a cross-section but also over a cycle of the pulsation ) of about 4700 ; the intermittency factor at the outlet became unity at Re = 5900 .
19 The formation of financial conglomerates , embodying commercial banking , stock-broking , market making , fund management etc , raise concerns not only over a clash of interests between conglomerate and client but also over a clash of obligations owed by the conglomerate to two or more clients .
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