Example sentences of "[adj] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With frequencies less than one kHz apart both are rendered unusable over a large area by light aircraft with the aforementioned ADF equipment . |
| 2 | A LONDONDERRY school head has called ‘ foul ’ over dog owners who allow their pets to run free over a play area . |
| 3 | Height and weight charts are vital in determining the seriousness of the problem and are the best method of assessing whether the food intake is adequate over a certain period of time . |
| 4 | On the other hand , if the rug is allowed to remain damp over a protracted period , the colours may run and , more seriously , mildew may form and cause permanent damage to the foundation or pile . |
| 5 | Other changes in structure developed more slowly , but although the pattern looked different over a period of a few years , analogues of the basic groups seem to have been present ever since the phenomenon of the contemporary football fan arose in the middle to late 1960s . |
| 6 | Stress becomes harmful only when it exceeds our ability to cope with the situation , or when it continues unrelieved over a prolonged period . |
| 7 | Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington . |
| 8 | If the variable duty cycle waveform is applied to act as the control parameter of the switching regulator of Fig. 4 , then the voltage will be controllable over a wide range and provide an adjustable and stabilised output . |
| 9 | It catalogued ‘ positively dangerous ’ work practices , poor management , inadequate training and supervision and inherent weakness in the safety culture of BR in a list of 16 separate ‘ relevant errors ’ where things had gone wrong over a number of years . |
| 10 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) has made it unequivocally clear over a long period of years that he is wholly opposed to unilateral devolution , which is what the Bill proposes . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | These proposed innovatory Keynesian policies were distinct from the economic policies of the Labour and Conservative parties , for they demanded the use of bank credit , the ending of private land ownership , and the use of public works programmes to swallow up over half a million unemployed over a short period of time . |
| 14 | The sound of these great explosions was audible over a large part of the Earth 's surface : at Elsey Creek in South Australia , 3,224 kilometres from Krakatoa , the noise was loud enough to wake sleeping people , who described it as being similar to the sound of rock being blasted . |
| 15 | There is , for example , no Annie 's Bar where we may gossip with the mighty over a vodka — although we do have access to a well-stocked cafeteria , where the waitresses are uncommonly polite . |
| 16 | Later , the project was able to borrow a more advanced flux-gate magnetometer and the preliminary conclusions from Rodney Hale , an experienced electronics engineer , as a result of further work , are that there is a magnetic field within the circle which fluctuates relative to that outside over a period of hours . |
| 17 | The House considers that the proposed $1.1 billion settlement — payable over a 10 year period — is inadequate . |
| 18 | Add the lentils and cream , season with salt and pepper , then cover and keep warm over a very low heat , shaking the pan occasionally . |
| 19 | If you are unsuccessful over a period of time there 's always a chance you will part company . ’ |
| 20 | Because of this skill differential between insiders and outsiders , and hence the strong preference of firms to continue to employ insiders , the power of outsiders , who are unemployed , to affect the outcome of the wage bargain struck between firms and insiders is minimal over a significant range of wage changes . |
| 21 | Security becomes important when files are accessible over a network . |
| 22 | The court found that all his experience had been in these areas ; he had always worked for the plaintiffs and therefore the clause rendered him unemployable over a very wide area for a significant time . |
| 23 | Making the bend in a bamboo stick is surprisingly easy over a candle flame or similar , but be careful not to burn it at this vital centre point of the kite ! |
| 24 | The Test of Professional Competence , for building surveyors , first introduced in 1973 , has remained unchanged over a period during which many other changes both technological and sociological have taken place within the Division . |
| 25 | The compressibility of the solvent is equal to the molar volume of the solvent in solution , V 1 , and can be assumed to be unchanged over a small range of pressures , thus giving |
| 26 | The loans would be repayable over a period of 20 years at 3.5 per cent interest . |
| 27 | The funds thus obtained , which would be repayable over a five-year period , represented only about 15 per cent of the estimated cost of making good damage to infrastructure [ see p. 38362 ] ; most reconstruction funding was expected to come from oil revenues . |
| 28 | Rudolph Ackermann issued some fifty books with coloured plates , including the well-known Repository of Arts , Literature , Commerce , Manufacture , and Politics , which appeared monthly over a period of nearly twenty years . |
| 29 | We passed giant slabs of ice which had buckled up into a cracked swelling over a rock and saw ice discs spinning on the surface of the water like root-less lily pads . |
| 30 | What are the advantages of using a large over a small firm ? |