Example sentences of "in [noun] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hungary and Czechoslovakia have reached a deadlock in discussions over a hydro-electric dam to be built on the River Danube , which according to environmentalists and scientists , presents serious hazards . |
| 2 | Your German and French are undoubtedly of value , but it must be remembered that this would not make you instantly preferable to , say , a German organisation with a manufacturing interest in Czechoslovakia over a fluent German speaker who is a Czech national or vice versa . |
| 3 | Glass reckons he saw 100 people individually and in groups over a four or five month period . |
| 4 | In the past , if a government lost a vote in Parliament over a major policy issue like the Maastricht treaty , it automatically resigned and called a general election . |
| 5 | It was built in brick over a long period ; the east end dates from the ninth century and the west from the tenth and eleventh while the vaults are mainly twelfth century . |
| 6 | Then there is a suit in Miami over a missing $6 billion ( £3.4 billion ) from Panama 's treasury . |
| 7 | The good thing about the airlift was that pilots had clear visibility all the way into Tabubil — a rare happening in an area where rain is often measured in feet over a 24-hour period . |
| 8 | He wants the findings and recommendations of the Commission for Local Authority Accounts in Scotland over a special report on the Western Isles Council and BCCI set aside in an action for judicial review that went before Lord Prosser yesterday . |
| 9 | The directors are accordingly not obliged to maximise current profits in order to satisfy short-term demands for dividends at the expense of a growth in profitability over a longer period . |
| 10 | He added that the electorates of UN member States might be unwilling to see their young men die in Ireland over a sustained period . |
| 11 | $580 million in compensation over a 14-year period . |
| 12 | He was fastidious about his hair , which he grew long and lacquered in place over a balding pate . |
| 13 | If , for example , she sometimes finds the superfluities of Godmersham amusing — ‘ At this present time I have five Tables , Eight & twenty Chairs & two fires all to myself ’ she none the less savours the ‘ luxurious sensation ’ of sitting ‘ in idleness over a good fire in a well-proportioned room ’ . |
| 14 | Hyperbolic functions are commonly used in kinetics : eg , the speed of waves in water over a shallow bottom is given by : V ² = 1.8 L th ( 6.3 d / L ) where V is velocity in knots and L is the wavelength in feet . |
| 15 | He wheeled round , and dimly Merrill registered lean height immaculate in dark blue ; then , at closer range , a taut design of no-nonsense features , dark eyebrows drawn in impatience over a straight , imperious nose . |
| 16 | To illustrate the problem , and explain why he saw the whole business in gladiatorial terms as a contest resulting in victory over a subdued female Nature , one that became the opposite of what it seemed , docile and yielding instead of cold and repelling , he invoked the example of Shakespeare . |
| 17 | Twenty thousand women had their tests rechecked when it was disclosed mistakes were made in the labs at Inverclyde Hospital in Greenock over a five year period . |
| 18 | This allocation of bargaining rights to minority unions in some cases ( thereby institutionalising union pluralism ) may also help to explain the chronic weakness of union organisation in France over a long period . |
| 19 | Inflation , if unchecked , can result in economic and social disorder , as conditions akin to hyper-inflation ( a thousand-fold rise in prices over a few months ) make bank savings worthless . |
| 20 | Analysis of the moment-by-moment changes in performance over a ten-minute period has shown that while the sleep-deprived subject may be performing well at the beginning , all responses are slowed towards the end , as well as frank lapses occurring . |
| 21 | From the curves it can be seen that there is a rapid change in log over a narrow range of temperature corresponding to the glass transition . |
| 22 | FIREBALL : A cargo-carrying jumbo jet exploded in mid-air over a densely-populated suburb of Amsterdam and smashed into apartment blocks |
| 23 | The printed edition would be issued in fascicles over a limited period of time . |
| 24 | According to Wickramasinghe , xenon at 40 atmospheres should provide a fivefold improvement in resolution over a water-coupled instrument . |
| 25 | The balance between the two varied according to economic circumstances , and it is very difficult for us to reconstruct the nature of these services in detail over a wide area before the thirteenth century . |