Example sentences of "a [n mass] of [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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1 | Ellen was showing Rickie Crowninshield all the elaborate electronic toys that only Ellen wholly understood ; the radios , radars , weatherfaxes and satellite receivers , and Rickie was being surprisingly attentive , but as soon as he saw me he scowled and clamped a pair of headphones over his ears as though to make sure that he did not have to hold any kind of conversation with me . |
2 | Each was wearing one half of a pair of tights over his head . |
3 | LNER Flying Scotsman became an old age pensioner in style with a series of runs over its old haunts from Peterborough to York . |
4 | Running through the history of literary criticism is a series of debates over the connection ( or contrast ) between literature and philosophy , and between the aesthetic imagination and science . |
5 | With it , however , comes a series of dilemmas over team selection . |
6 | The period affects all young people and involves a series of stages over a number of years , which are influenced by social and economic status . |
7 | This is the latest in a series of conflicts over the Baltic environment , including an escape of effluent from the chemicals complex on the river Dvina which poisoned large numbers of fish . |
8 | Staff will hold a series of meetings over the next few weeks to decide how to respond to the cuts plan . |
9 | There has been a series of decisions over the past 50 years which , although they are said to be cases of estoppel are not really such . |
10 | Having cut his teeth at Disney Studios , Lasseter has developed a reputation with a series of shorts over the past five years which have brought together the very best aspects of hand and computer animation , creating something quite special in the process . |
11 | The wide variety of scenarios should , we argue throughout this book , be treated as a series of options over which we as a society ought to be able to exercise some choice . |
12 | This weekend 's meeting is the latest in a series of conferences over the past two weeks during which ministers , their advisers , vice-chancellors , polytechnic directors and senior officials have been thrashing out strategies for expanding the higher education system . |
13 | Such a double-fisted attack has so far posed no extraordinary problems for librarians , but a series of events over the last few years illustrates that the issue of the law and censorship could become a major problem in the management of libraries . |
14 | CONSERVATION Volunteers , which has its training centre at Dendron Lodge in Bangor 's Clandeboye Estate , is running a series of courses over the next month or so at the Lodge . |
15 | The rail unions staged a series of strikes over poor pay and BR insistence on an end to collective bargaining , and were somewhat surprised to find themselves with public sympathy despite many complete network shutdowns . |