Example sentences of "[vb pp] over many [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been earned over many years through dedicated teamwork and attention to detail . |
| 2 | Industrial sites are so massive , having grown over many years without appropriate control , so that there are bound to be deficiencies and we aim to have them put right as soon as practicable . |
| 3 | In fact , the work was never really completed , additions simply being made over many years as the need for extra wards arose . |
| 4 | Considerable research effort has been invested over many years into both speech recognition and speech understanding , but very few robust implementations have been developed . |
| 5 | Most recently the Welsh Affairs Select Committee vividly described the appalling burden borne over many decades by communities surrounded by opencast workings ( ‘ The Future of Opencast Mining in Wales ’ , 1991 ) . |
| 6 | A third rail was laid over many miles of track to allow trains of either gauge to run . |
| 7 | Just such a programme has been successfully undertaken over many years by the Scottish Heatwise programme whose funding has never , alas , matched its innovation and enterprise . |
| 8 | Oberon and Titania ’ , and ‘ The Fairy Feller 's Master-stroke ’ , both painted over many years in Bethlem Hospital . |
| 9 | The compensation issue was important because 80 years of phosphate mining had left 80 per cent of Nauru uninhabitable , and the phosphate deposits ( formed over many centuries from accumulated bird droppings ) were almost exhausted . |
| 10 | Canteiro is a wine which has been matured over many years without going into an estufa , and it is of a good age . |
| 11 | The genius of the Dalmatians showed itself particularly in architecture , sculpture and literature , and their artistic output was sustained over many centuries from the builders of the early Christian churches of the seventh and eighth centuries to the eighteenth-century cathedral of Dubrovnik , and from Historia Salonitana , by the thirteenth-century Thomas , Archdeacon of Split , to the black comedies of Vlaho Stulli-Stulić , written in the closing years of the Ragusan republic and still performed today . |
| 12 | There 's been a lot of hot air generated over many years about grass cutting standards but it 's not an idle thought when I say if anybody wants to see where the best grass cutting takes place then they should visit . |
| 13 | Although we have gone over ground that we have gone over many times in the House , the debate has been extremely interesting . |
| 14 | With very gradual familiarisation training spread over many months of flying , some of these students have been completely cured . |
| 15 | The close association that has existed over many years between geophysicists and engineering geologists in multidisciplinary projects at BGS will be enhanced by bringing these staff into one group . |
| 16 | Artist Elizabeth Jane Lloyd 's home has evolved over many years into a colourful , cluttered house of collections : ‘ We 've never set about doing anything major . |
| 17 | But modern DNA replication is a high-technology affair , with elaborate proofreading techniques that have been perfected over many generations of cumulative selection . |