Example sentences of "over a much [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The similarity is that your risks are spread over a much wider range of investments than you could achieve on your own . |
| 2 | But over a much wider range than we usually recognize , the signal works without question , because it is a conventional way of answering what would otherwise be ( and may still really be ) difficult or impossibly difficult questions , about the nature of the work and about the appropriate kind of response . |
| 3 | The designers , Dr Barry Gorham and Jim Dudley , say that theoretically , by applying the same technology to microwaves , they could extend its range over a much wider area — even rain and snow . |
| 4 | Without these provisions , the collapse of the structure perhaps over a much wider area must be anticipated . |
| 5 | Botanically , it is a one-off with no obvious affinities and no immediate allies ; all that we know of its ancestors ( from fossil evidence ) is that they were once common over a much wider area , as near as Germany for instance , during the mid-Tertiary period approximately 30 million years ago . |
| 6 | Jack Cade 's rising in 1450 , which affected mainly Kent and various neighbouring counties , was a far more serious affair , and had repercussions over a much wider area . |
| 7 | An accident in a nuclear submarine could cause radioactive contamination over a much wider area than government and Royal Navy officials have admitted in public , putting millions of people in Britain at risk . |
| 8 | That is exactly what has happened with that company because the costs of the base operations have been spread over a much wider network . |
| 9 | But do n't worry too much about the massive effect of these clouds over Arizona ; these are local and temporary , produced while the cloud was compact and before it spread to produce a much smaller effect over a much bigger area . |
| 10 | Through this ‘ echolocation' ’ system a dolphin builds up an acoustic picture of its surroundings , and can hunt its prey over a much greater distance than the limits of visibility in the water . |
| 11 | The redesigned straps and shoulder pads spread the load over a much greater area instead of concentrating it under the armpits and on top of the shoulders . |
| 12 | A glance at the sketch map above will show the general limits of the Byzantine Empire ( which fluctuated greatly during this long period ) , but the influence of the style was exerted over a much greater area : north to Russia , north-west to southern France , east to Armenia and Georgia . |
| 13 | At Raigmore , near Inverness , a stone circle almost 60 feet in diameter was raised around 1600 BC over a much earlier Stone Age settlement . |
| 14 | Her level of engagement shows that she was involved to a greater extent over a much larger part of the day . |
| 15 | The American team then released the mosquitoes , over a much larger area ( 150 sq . |
| 16 | Because the small one-celled bacteria have a rapid reproductive rate — they may divide every five minutes — evolution can take place over a much shorter time-scale than in larger organisms . |
| 17 | Furthermore — and this probably gives us the best clue as to the intrinsic nature of schizophrenia — there is fluctuation in mental state over a much shorter time-scale . |
| 18 | The delayed decline in the population of Lewis and Harris and of the Western Isles amounted to rather more than 30% over a much shorter period . |
| 19 | Whatever our personal views on politics , morals and society are , we have responsibilities not simply to the here and now but to society over a much longer term . |
| 20 | ( Monday to Friday ) , giving a taste of the kind of stamina that will ultimately be required over a much longer period . |
| 21 | With press media , it is possible to spread the same money over a much longer period , especially if monthly magazines are used , since monthlies accumulate their readership of as many as 10 or 11 readers per copy over quite a long period . |
| 22 | This of course was not the main part of the work , but a pilot study used to test and refine some hypotheses about the wider sociolinguistic situation , which was then investigated more fully over a much longer period of time . |
| 23 | In so doing the newcomers have contributed to the sense of urban encroachment on rural political affairs among farmers and landowners which goes back over a much longer period , and which has been associated with changes in the institutions of political control in the countryside : the gradual decline in the personalized and autocratic power of the locally resident squirearchy and the transfer of public administration to a more formal and impersonal framework of local government since local politics were first placed on a democratic footing in 1888 . |
| 24 | The circular changed and allowed that joint finance money to be paid over a much longer period and virtually in perpetuity . |
| 25 | These were ‘ asymmetrical cyclical troughs ’ because recovery of output was spread over a much longer period than its initial loss , and because many factories closed for good in the second recession . |
| 26 | When the additional money is spent on training nurses , it is important that every effort be made to retain their services over a much longer period , which may involve making the terms and conditions more flexible for women returning to work . |
| 27 | I would love to talk to you over a much longer period , but I 'm afraid that 's all that we have time for today . |
| 28 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
| 29 | The major difference appears to be that of timescale ; perfusion is spread over a much longer time scale than arterial infusion . |
| 30 | We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period . |