Example sentences of "over a [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these stars are concentrated in a field only a little over a degree in diameter . |
| 2 | Nigel Lawson enrolled in the Clark Gable ‘ Frankly , I do n't give a damn ’ school when he fell foul of his own party over a rise in interest rates just before the Tory conference . |
| 3 | It was all hands on deck as they worked flat out over a weekend in March . |
| 4 | The Cretaceous genus Inoceramus sometimes grew well over a metre in length ; fragments of this particular genus are frequently important components of the soft , white Cretaceous limestone known as chalk . |
| 5 | The tunnel was the longest in Britain at the time , the first over a mile in length . |
| 6 | Rather more than 20 years ago , over a lunch in Staff House , I was persuaded by three eminent lecturers of this University to allow them to nominate me for the Council of Consumers ' Association . |
| 7 | unc unc A metre is about 39.4 inches or slightly over a yard in length . |
| 8 | There were 16 cases of damage to vehicles including £300 damage to a vehicle in Larchfield Street , while paint was sprayed over a vehicle in Rydal Road . |
| 9 | James Palmer , who bungled an attempt to push his neighbour over a cliff in Exmouth , Devon , was jailed yesterday by Bristol Crown Court for 10 years . |
| 10 | He draped his wet clothes over a chair in front of the stove and ladled rice and beans on to two plates . |
| 11 | Mr Mackarness runs a property company from this office over a shop in South London . |
| 12 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 13 | The latter has just over a length in hand on the watch and one could not fault her smart performance last time from the trap three she occupies once again . |
| 14 | The survey , over a prospect in block 5–2 , began on August 29 and ended on September 26 . |
| 15 | By taking the computer processing offshore on to the survey boat — the Geco Resolution — for the first survey over a prospect in Block 6 , the seismic team were able to collapse the serial process of acquisition , processing and initial interpretation , to a parallel process . |
| 16 | Demonstrating that the 3D turnaround time can be reduced to two months has given the Vietnam team confidence , Nunn says , to use this method again on their second 3D survey in Vietnam over a prospect in Block 5–2 . |
| 17 | Taylor ( 1987 ) points out that in the United States during the 1980s , the Reagan Administration , pursuing similar policies to those of the Conservatives , presided over a decline in crime and asks why the United Kingdom was different . |
| 18 | Martin Fleischmann told me how over a whiskey in Pons ' kitchen he remarked , ‘ It 's a billion to one chance , shall we do it ? ’ and Pons replied , ‘ Let's have a go . ’ |
| 19 | No presbyterian can see why a monarch should have jurisdiction over a belief in God 's kingdom . |