Example sentences of "over the long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 170 cyclists gathered in the grounds of Drumlanrig Castle , near Thornhill in Dumfriesshire , over the long weekend of May ‘ -25 to celebrate 152 years of the invention , by Kirkpatrick Macmillan , of our favourite form of transport and recreation . |
| 2 | The journey back was a bit dreary as the blacked-out vehicle bumped and rattled its way through the darkened villages and over the long stretches of anonymous countryside . |
| 3 | The arts world has almost grown accustomed to the hand-to-mouth condition in which it is kept , but what it has not become resigned to over the long period of Tory rule is the positive hostility to its aims and values . |
| 4 | Both may be guessing , although the Encomiast is reasonably well-informed on the campaigns late in Æthelred II's reign , and William 's report of mixed methods need not be far wrong , even if it is a guess ; the armies which troubled England over the long period between c.985 and 1016 do often seem to have comprised the warbands of a number of men , are unlikely to have been organised and commanded solely by Danish kings , did not consist entirely of Danes , and frequently appear to have been motivated mainly by a desire for booty . |
| 5 | There are ways in which mutation and natural selection together can lead , over the long span of geological time , to a building up of complexity that has more in common with addition than with subtraction . |