Example sentences of "over a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It climbs up to and over a ridge and on the ascent reveals an exquisite vista of Loch Maree , a foretaste of joys to come . |
| 2 | If the flat only has one entrance/exit ( which it will because it is not on the ground floor ) , it should have a fire escape , or some means of escape over a balcony or roof . |
| 3 | " It 's over a night and a day now and I 'm dropping . " |
| 4 | The descent needs great care through its fall of 500 feet ; then the gradient eases and more confident progress can be made over a widening and declining moorland to the shore of Loch Kishorn . |
| 5 | Then he almost holed his 160-yard approach on the 18th , where the hole was cut over a bunker and just a few feet onto the green . |
| 6 | There is less emphasis on corporate planning , and on ‘ structure plans ’ that would provide a policy framework within a county over a fifteen- or twenty-year period . |
| 7 | ‘ Either way I have a feeling there will be lengthy and detailed post-tournament analysis over a pint or two . ’ |
| 8 | After 47 cliff-hanging hours , both ministers agreed to ‘ deposit their portfolios with the prime minister ’ for a week , while negotiations over a reshuffle and possible enlargement of the cabinet proceed . |
| 9 | In particular , reward structures are unlikely to be correlated with long-term returns ; in fact managerial compensation is likely to be based on performance over a two- or three-year period . |
| 10 | Locks , or more correctly , ‘ pound locks ’ , are a means of raising a boat over a rise or fall in level by a series of steps . |
| 11 | But , with a research department reduced by over a half and with the strategic use of a cash cow , the nylon business produced innovation after innovation . |
| 12 | Over this period , Italy expanded its output of machinery by two-thirds , Germany by over a half and the French by a tenth . |
| 13 | Also , remote users can dial in over a modem and access a network 's drives — this is really useful if you have people on the road who need access to office files . |
| 14 | He had drunk over a bottle and a half already but showed little outward sign of over-consumption , except for his accent curdling into a thicker Scots . |
| 15 | Right , April , April the tenth to the twelfth , is the , is the National Amnesty A G M which is held over a weekend and this year is in Exeter . |
| 16 | He was no good at games — " more long than stop " as he once remarked to my cricket-loving sons — but early on had remarkable control over a bicycle and later in life showed aptitude for skiing in spite of his great length of leg — and he was a beautiful ballroom dancer . |
| 17 | It can be removed by vigorous aeration — perhaps over a day or more — or by the use of water conditioners . |
| 18 | " But I dare say he 's impatient , " thought Hazel , " or he may have come off worst in some scuffle over a doe and taken it hard . |
| 19 | For l/d = 540 , the range has been observed to start at a Reynolds number ( based on a velocity averaged not only over a cross-section but also over a cycle of the pulsation ) of about 4700 ; the intermittency factor at the outlet became unity at Re = 5900 . |
| 20 | Over a whisky or two in the hotel 's lounge Scotty recalled the days when perfect pop chemistry created music which — unless your ears are square , or closed altogether — you could n't fail to find compelling and irresistible , even thirty five years on … |
| 21 | In the 1890s the Central Station was constructed , and in 1905 two more branch lines extended among the factories and workshops of the Lower City , and a third snaked its way out over a drawbridge and a railway ferry to the island of Ostrów . |
| 22 | Do we really want to go down in history as the generation which sold for a mess of pottage the finest British companies , which have successfully built brand names and franchises of high repute over a century or more … ? |
| 23 | The special school sector was built up over a century or more . |
| 24 | Its ten pavilions were to serve Paris for over a century and to take their place in the city 's folklore . |
| 25 | The Napoleonic model in France , even though it survived virtually unaltered for over a century and a half , eventually had to yield to demands for a wider measure of regional self-government , and over the past years schemes of regional devolution have been instituted . |
| 26 | Over a century and hall after the break-up of the great ecclesiastical estates , the coastal plain was subjected to a steady process of ‘ enclosure ’ , the larger ‘ open ’ or ‘ common ’ fields being replaced by the hedged and ditched rectangles we still see today . |
| 27 | After 1560 , this new English church was engaged in the task of establishing its traditions and defining its boundaries , a process which lasted well over a century and was only effectively completed by the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 28 | They had no other Dutch communities to look to ; they kept their own language for over a century and the switch of allegiance from one ruler to another was one that nobody at that time found at all difficult . |
| 29 | The painstaking task is finally rewarded , however , by the detailed picture that emerges of an ‘ ordinary ’ family of farmers , craftsmen and labourers over a century and a half . |
| 30 | For years , neglected in the centre of Oxford , it 's been a rest-spot for the weary taxi-driver for over a century and now 's lovingly restored and converted into a shop . |