Example sentences of "[noun] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his letter to Mrs Paleschi over a year ago , Niazy said : ‘ Just get the embassy to come and visit me and everything will be solved , if God wishes . |
| 2 | Winning the world championship is one of the main ambitions of the season , but being No 1 is more important to me ; it shows a player for his performances over a year , as opposed to two weeks . ’ |
| 3 | They note that for a deviation Δ of 10 -11 the accumulated effect over a year would only amount to a relative velocity of 1 µm s -1 towards the Sun ! |
| 4 | She and her family had been in the States over a year now , and had moved from Boston to New York . |
| 5 | For someone who is only moderately active , that could mean a 7- or 8 lb ( 3- or 3.5-kg ) increase in weight over a year . |
| 6 | But there were almost nine hundred malicious calls , which cost the brigade over a million pounds to turn out to . |
| 7 | ‘ The Shiah , for example , or at least the ones in Iran , believe that the Twelfth Imam — who disappeared in mysterious circumstances over a thousand years ago — is going to come back with a huge army and take over the world . ’ |
| 8 | Gooch had a bowl , but it was an hour before the next casualty , Akram sparing Salim Malik in a misunderstanding over a third run and taking himself off on the sad trek back to the redbrick pavilion . |
| 9 | Constance had n't seen her mother since her last visit to England over a year ago . |
| 10 | Pachinko is a £3.8bn-a-year industry which has a Svengali-like hold over a quarter of the adult population . |
| 11 | Both governments claim sovereignty over a fifth of the world 's population , yet have survived as neighbours for 44 years without annihilating each other . |
| 12 | Perhaps we ought to have a service at the Minster , or er something to you know , er remember the service of many given to the parish council over a hundred years , and er and it 's something simple , and I think it would be quite nice to er to do something like that . |
| 13 | The man was responsible for two rapes and at least five other sexual assaults over a year ago . |
| 14 | Although the young man and Mrs H. denied rectal intercourse , it is probable that this was the site that had served as a source of the infection , which had presumably originated with her husband over a year previously . |
| 15 | It accelerated more than anticipated with the result that the capsule landed in the Atlantic over a hundred miles away from the target area . |
| 16 | One effort to foster communication between such groups of specialists took place over a week in Berlin at the end of last year . |
| 17 | The campaign took place over a week beginning on Monday 26 April . |
| 18 | ( In an extreme case we might have a fairly constant number of 0-year-old children ( say 5000 ) in some population , yet averaging 100 deaths each week in the 0–1 age group , so that the ratio of deaths to mean population over a year exceeds 1.01 ) . |
| 19 | It may lead us to compare the relative increase in costs over a year , believing that we were comparing like with like . |
| 20 | Not only was I unable to be certain of Miss Kenton 's desire to rejoin the staff here , I had not , of course , even discussed the question of additional staff with Mr Farraday since that first preliminary meeting over a year ago . |
| 21 | In an incident on the Shankill over a week ago , loyalist sources claim the wife of a prominent UDA man was forced to kneel in pouring rain in her back yard while an RUC officer held a gun to her head . |
| 22 | This is a new sales approach , designed to support the industry 's desire to link information technology and business objectives to gain the competitive edge : if a customer wants to increase market share by say 5% over a year , Customer Systems might , for example , agree to take a certain fee up front , and then link subsequent earnings to the achievement of the customer 's business aim . |
| 23 | This condition should immediately be remedied by a series of water changes over a week to ten days — using the gravel cleaner … |
| 24 | Local authorities will be given new powers over a second tier of less heavily polluting processes , which will only be allowed to take place after councils have imposed stringent operating conditions . |
| 25 | No NATO general could have organised the strategy so well , for what general can recognise and know by name over a thousand of his troops — even when masked ? |
| 26 | Recover the eggs by inverting the mesh over a second Petri dish and passing fresh medium through it . |
| 27 | Channel 7 , the telephone and Viewdata listing company which angered accountants over a year ago ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1990 , p 13 and March 1991 , p 11 ) is still in operation and , according to a recent complaint , is using the names of the Institute and major firms to persuade other accountants to sign up . |
| 28 | Bears became extinct in the Austrian Alps over a hundred years , but in the 1970s a male bear from Yugoslavia wandered across the border to take up residence in the southeast province of Styria . |
| 29 | Specific weight was 68kg/hl off the combine , improving the 72kg/hl after taking out 1.5% screenings over a 2mm screen . |
| 30 | Quirinus is lord there and he knows me , for it is with he and his Myrcans that I took up service over a year ago . |