Example sentences of "over a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , whether that 's the reason or not , over a depth of about a metre of deposit there is really quite rapid changes in these populations . |
| 2 | To reach the sixteenth green from the championship tee required a full driver over a lake of 230 yards . |
| 3 | The need for more staff time to organize training , or a member of staff specifically employed to organize/co-ordinate training , was mentioned by over a quarter of all authorities ( see Table 25 ) : |
| 4 | Hong Kong 's Victoria Harbour is used by over a quarter of a million ships a year . |
| 5 | The lips were drawn back over a row of small pointed teeth in a ghastly grimace , a shriek of pain or terror . |
| 6 | Signe 's apartment was in a small block built over a row of shops . |
| 7 | Standing exactly where Mao Tse-tung proclaimed the People 's Republic of China on 1 October 1949 , paramount leader Deng Xiaoping joined other party leaders atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace to preside over a night of fireworks and martial music in Tiananmen Square . |
| 8 | If so , this piece of Leicestershire landscape is the product of various forces over a space of four hundred years . |
| 9 | couple of things we saw each other and then over a space of about two months we saw each other probably about three times |
| 10 | My shorts were distributed over a half-acre of plants in the sharp silvery light of this place , in the form of white balls , fibrous globs . |
| 11 | Over a soundtrack of appropriate chart hits , unidentified teenagers talked about coming to terms with their own sexuality . |
| 12 | At this gain the noise level of the instrument can be seen in quiet periods to be approximately 10 gamma — 15 gamma over a bandwagon of the order of 0.3Hz , reasonable enough for serious studies . |
| 13 | Lay a bed of mortar over a base of gravel or fine hardcore . |
| 14 | One attractive alternative to brushing bronzing powder on your cheeks is cream blusher : blend it in well with your fingertips over a base of tinted moisturiser , then dust any areas prone to shine with powder . |
| 15 | The accretion process spins up the neutron star to millisecond periods over a timescale of 10 7 –10 8 yr , and , when mass transfer ceases , the system consists of a millisecond pulsar in a circular orbit with a low-mass companion . |
| 16 | Too much sunlight might impress upon me the idea of how much more agreeable it would be out of doors rather than hunched over a sheet of almost blank paper . |
| 17 | Jezrael swung herself breathless over a bar of rock and down into the wind-shadow of a huge erratic that faced the sharp-cut sunrise . |
| 18 | Hunter , 25 , who had to have a spleen removed after a tackle by a Japanese player during the Student World Cup in Italy last summer , is back in full training and is over a bout of tonsillitis . |
| 19 | The one with Pavarotti and Sid Vicious fighting over a vial of dope |
| 20 | As always , it was difficult to judge the uphill putt over a kind of step . |
| 21 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 22 | The Empress Maria Theresa presided over a transformation of the Habsburg hereditary territories which was the greatest achievement of its kind anywhere in Europe during this period . |
| 23 | He has presided over a degree of prosperity unknown under his predecessor , Sukarno . |
| 24 | Just over a half of the part-time farmers said that they used or would use off-farm income for the farm . |
| 25 | Most importantly the Chardonnay in the grand cru sector has risen from nearly a third to over a half of the vines cultivated , while in the premiers crus it has dropped from just under a half to less than 40% . |
| 26 | Whilst only just over a fifth of all workers work on a part-time basis , well over a half of temporary workers do so . |
| 27 | Most of these businesses were on such a small scale that over a half of them built no more than six houses during these three years and nearly three-quarters built no more than twelve ; the bankruptcy rate was high . |
| 28 | Bent over a crate of bottles , with his back to Timothy , Mr Plant gave a startled grunt . |
| 29 | A particular scene appeared before her eyes : her father is sitting hunched over a pile of torn photographs , and Agnes 's sister is shouting at him : ‘ Why have you torn up Mother 's pictures ? |
| 30 | Send someone out to buy 20 pairs , ’ she said , striding nervously over a pile of scattered silk shoes in the ballroom of the Berkeley Hotel , Knightsbridge . |