Example sentences of "and over a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | There is an attractive walled garden , fifty acres of tranquil woods , farmland , and over a mile of brook and riverside for guests to enjoy at their leisure . |
2 | Swirling in an army Chinook helicopter through wind and fog and over a sea of smouldering lava yesterday , it was easy to see why earlier plans to bomb or mine it off course and up on to the surface have been shelved . |
3 | This version had provision for the hot gases of combustion to be passed round and over a layer of slurry spread upon a drying floor . |
4 | After 48h and over a range of FGF-4 concentrations ( 10 , 50 , 100 or 500ngml -1 , about 0.8–40nM ) , the average length of -AER forelimbs is 50% greater than that of contralateral+AER forelimbs or forelimbs cultured without FGF-4 . |
5 | It was envisaged , however , that they would " voluntarily delegate " to the central authorities control over financial , credit and exchange policy , over common customs policy " to ensure protection of the union-wide market " , and over a range of other activities including management of defence industries , transport , energy and telecommunications . |
6 | As much to find out how much Sasser had told him as to learn what Hurley was up to , Coleman agreed , and over a sandwich from the embassy canteen in Hurley 's basement office , discovered that the DEA attaché was trying to put together a videotape documenting narcotics production in the Bekaa Valley . |
7 | Steep paths lead down through the landscaped gardens and over a foot-bridge to the main building directly across the road . |
8 | The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats . |
9 | Greece also lodged strong protests over nationalist attacks on Greeks and their property in Albania , and over a series of raids on villages on the Greek side of the Greek-Albanian border . |
10 | He has an impressive command of the literature of both art and optical science across much of Europe and over a span of four centuries . |
11 | The news media learned of the arrests next morning and over a number of days outraged protests went up from loyalist spokesmen , including leaders of loyalist political parties and Andrew Beattie 's colleagues on the Constitutional Stoppage Central Co-ordinating Committee . |
12 | The everyday lives of ordinary people are not the basis for good television unless the characters and events are portrayed in a consistently entertaining fashion , and over a period of time ; hence the great success of television soap operas . |
13 | According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies . |
14 | This does not add much to the cost of the order , and over a period of time the extra components build up into a useful stock of parts . |
15 | The masculine energy is made available , and over a period of time the woman can crystallize that energy into a bond that will hold fast . |
16 | The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving . |
17 | A programme of restoration back to full working order followed and over a period of 18 months , it was stripped , restored and rebuilt to its present immaculate condition . |
18 | In both cases you have to find a deposit , and over a period of time pay off what is , in effect , a loan . |
19 | The place was besieged , and over a period of months , including a winter , the English grip tightened . |
20 | Also studied were the consistency of performance of individuals within and between topics , between mode of assessment and over a period of time . |
21 | In Woodrow , it was held that affray is a continuing offence , so that where an indictment charged the defendants with a single offence and particularised several incidents that had occurred at different places and over a period of several hours , the indictment was not bad for duplicity . |
22 | This stage is followed by a search for means to implement the desired change and over a period of time a cycle of problems are handled by this method . |
23 | Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective . |