Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun pl] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swathes of coloured gauze separated silver benches , and a twisting staircase on one side had a cobweb of azure spangles hanging over it . |
| 2 | The implications of the mixture of distributions hypothesis for the distribution of price changes calculated over equal periods of calendar time were considered in Chapter 7 . |
| 3 | There will be leptokurtosis in the distribution of price changes computed over equal time periods ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 4 | The market index tends to rise over time , and this will cause the size and hence the variance of price changes to rise over time . |
| 5 | She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag , and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day : well-thumbed , much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley , Mary Barton , North and South , Sybil , Alton Locke , Felix Holt , Hard Times ; her lecture notes — a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different-coloured inks , beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible ; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation . |
| 6 | It became the Great Depression as successive waves of bank failures rolled over America 's monetary system . |
| 7 | An even larger protest was held the following year when 10,000 people gathered , many of them climbing a staircase of straw bales built over the ten-foot high barbed wire fence around the site . |
| 8 | HAS THE PREVALENCE OF ADL PROBLEMS CHANGED OVER TIME ? |
| 9 | For these species , therefore , about half of the bones expected to be present , based on the numbers of prey animals consumed over a measured period , were recovered from the pellets . |