Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun pl] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems to be at variance with John Jones where a number of incidents over a period were held to be duplicitously charged as a single count of affray . |
| 2 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 3 | It will be difficult or impossible to establish a course of dealing on the basis of a small number of transactions over a long period . |
| 4 | This study focuses upon a number of children over a period of up to 40 months beginning early in their final year at school and covering the transitional period that follows . |
| 5 | In addition , HARPY limited the average number of competitors over a stretch of speech and also constrained their identity , thereby ensuring that the items were easily discriminable as measured by their acoustic match scores . |