Example sentences of "a number of [noun pl] over " in BNC.

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1 Situated on the edge of the attractive village of Tiffield , Ark Farm has evolved from a number of farms over the last 30 years .
2 He said : ‘ We have had a number of complaints over the last few months . ’
3 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 .
4 But there 've been a number of changes over the years , certainly prior to nineteen seventy four that would be the case , water boards supplying water , local councils treating treating the sewage , and the rivers authorities looking after the river pollution aspects .
5 The mill had a number of owners over the years , its major business starting when , by the 1860s , it was taken over by Reece and Sandford .
6 While all kadis were appointed by the state and received allowances , for example , certainly in the period under review only the most important of the muftis received official appointments or salaries ; and indeed , even the salary of the Mufti of Istanbul , until the very end of the period , was considerably smaller than the allowances ( to say nothing of the income ) of a number of kadis over whom he clearly took precedence , the pattern possibly having been established by the perhaps consciously modest demands made by Fahreddin Acemi .
7 Trial work suggests that the technique has a number of advantages over other forms of injection .
8 An alternative approach which has a number of advantages over linear control systems , is the switching regulator , or as it is more usually known , the ‘ switch-mode power supply ’ .
9 Pattern-notes ( sometimes called " mind-maps " ) can fulfil many of your basic requirements of analytical note-making and they have a number of advantages over their over-used linear equivalent .
10 But Bourdieu 's notion of structure ( partly because it includes agency ) in modernity has a number of advantages over these other analysts .
11 Special thesaurus software has a number of advantages over the alternative , which is usually the use of a database package or a word processing package to store terms .
12 The most promising of these techniques , the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) has a number of advantages over more conventional methods .
13 Keycard systems hold a number of advantages over traditional cylinder locks for both the guest and the hotelier .
14 The non-professional also has a number of advantages over professional services .
15 The charges arose out of deals involving arms and technology purchases by the IAF from US defence contractors and raised a number of questions over Israel 's handling of the annual US military grant worth US$1,800 million .
16 He had administered the fumes to a number of women over several years with no side-effects .
17 This was only a temporary setback to the Long March veteran who had survived a number of purges over previous decades when ‘ redness ’ was valued more than ‘ expertise ’ .
18 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 .
19 What is more insidious is the lack of guidance on the levels of accuracy to be expected or , where aggregate data are supplied ( for example , the sum or average of the values at a number of points over an area ) statements about the variability of these values within the area are exceptional .
20 They had a number of fires over the years at 's Mill , er and one was in eighteen sixty six or sixty seven .
21 raises yet again a problem that has been before the Court of Appeal on a number of occasions over the past 10 years or so .
22 The implications for my daughter 's safety and security , and and mine and the rest of my family 's , because there have been a number of occasions over the years when I 've had to turn to the police because of my anxiety about that when there 's been a lot of attention from the media and when the press have published our address and so on erm and we 've had I 've had specific death threats particularly against my daughter on one occasion .
23 I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite .
24 The advice on how to put planning for development into practice can be supported by the experiences shared by the Council and a number of bodies over the last three years .
25 There would be a gap of anything from six months to a number of years over which a veil was drawn .
26 The desirability of continued economic growth has been raised by a number of economists over the past decade and the titles of their publications make their conclusions clear — Does Money Buy Happiness ?
27 The deaths in police custody of a number of detainees over the years have also been controversial .
28 Benzie ( 1991 ) outlined a number of doubts over the general prospects for international bond issuance .
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