Example sentences of "the [noun sg] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warnock had admitted stealing the money over a two-year period while she was the toy library 's treasurer . |
| 2 | Barclays Bank is making the grant over a three-year period to encourage independent companies . |
| 3 | However , at Cosmeston the archaeologist has the opportunity to excavate a large portion of the settlement over a long period of time and to use the results to shed light on sites where the excavators have not been so fortunate . |
| 4 | This is because the EDSP is the average value of the index over a 20-minute period , and the prices used in computing the index are the midprices of the quotations , not the last traded prices . |
| 5 | By getting his colleagues to admit pupils to their lectures after Vial 's death , apparently waiving the customary fee of 10 guineas , he helped the College over a difficult patch , but may unwittingly have set an unfortunate precedent which suggested that preclinical veterinary teaching could be done as well in a medical as in a veterinary context . |
| 6 | If this analysis is accepted , then it is clear that the attempt over a long period of time to protect the position of those living in privately rented accommodation has failed and has , in fact , made the position worse . |
| 7 | Important as the price of oil may be , the uncertainty over a possible physical shortage of supply was an equally compelling concern , with IEA active in formulating contingency plans for stock sharing in this event . |
| 8 | A hill or valley can often act in the same way as an enormous sail and bend the wind over a large area . |
| 9 | The result over a two year period is a range of display material that has been exclusively designed and manufactured , and is now available to retailers throughout the country . |
| 10 | She was stirring milk into the roux over a low heat when Annie finished her currants and announced , ‘ Wanta-wee , wanta-wee . ’ |
| 11 | You can generate the dust by rubbing the Polychromos Pastels against fine sandpaper , a practical use for small remnant pieces that would otherwise be difficult to use up , or you can do as I do and spread the dust from very lightly applied pastel strokes , placed to allow a very deliberate development of the effect over a localised area . |
| 12 | THE outcry over a new version of the world 's most popular ballet has been branded ‘ a storm in a teacup ’ . |
| 13 | He claimed that 85,000 people had used the range over a two-year period and that outdoor sport was acceptable on green belt land . |
| 14 | He had proved that he could maintain his force in the desert over a considerable length of time , which by air supply could easily be extended . |
| 15 | There are now plans to extend the mining over a further 21,850 hectares in the Navajo 's Black Mesa and Kayenta regions . |
| 16 | He wore a loose cotton blouson buttoned at the waist over a blue tee-shirt and faded khaki slacks . |
| 17 | Other types of skin cancer are associated with continued exposure to the sun over a long period . |
| 18 | Resuming the A.87 at the Killilan junction , the road now turns between banks ablaze with gorse and enters the populated environs of Dornie , bypassing the separate community of Ardelve and reaching the village over a long road bridge . |
| 19 | When you put the pointer over a Split box it changes into a double headed arrow and as you drag it into the worksheet it drags a thick bar with it . |
| 20 | One might infer from this that investment intensity is therefore also negatively correlated with increases in the value of the business over a five-year period . |
| 21 | This may be to have the customer test the product over a four-week period , or for him to order a quantity for immediate use . |
| 22 | It crashed into the peak and flipped over , although the tail section is recognisable , wreckage is scattered down the hill over a wide area . |
| 23 | A short aqueduct carries the canal over a minor road before the canal dives into a deep cutting . |
| 24 | In return , the EC undertook to phase out the pesticide over a five-year period . |
| 25 | From this altitude their instruments view a swath of the Earth 's surface that extends 1500 km to either side of their suborbital tracks , so that a picture of the globe over a 24-hour period is built up . |
| 26 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |
| 27 | Accumulation of observations would allow one to specify statistical properties of the motion , such as the average kinetic and potential energy of the pendulum over a large number of periods ( cf. the statistical specification of turbulent motion , Section 19.2 ) . |
| 28 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |
| 29 | A study in West Germany in 1978 said that , with a 30 per cent shortfall in supplies of the metal over a full year the country 's output of goods and services would fall by a quarter . |
| 30 | The evening turned out to be a spectacular climax to a year of consolidated growth for Embassy tennis , a tribute to its commitment to the game over a three year period . |