Example sentences of "over [art] few " in BNC.
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| 31 | And having committed the boy to a day on the rubbish , he could hardly turn me down when I suggested we settle for a couple of hours ' conversation over a few beers , after he 'd sorted out the mess . |
| 32 | Fortunately I had bought the machine through a Mail Order catalogue , so the cost was spread over a few months . |
| 33 | Then you can simply release your grip and back slowly away over a few paces . |
| 34 | A history teacher is content to cover the history of one country or continent over a few decades . |
| 35 | He might look like an old man who 's been run over a few times to you , but to me … ’ he puffed his chest out even further ‘ … he 's a vicious criminal . ’ |
| 36 | First , those who stress the symbolic role of leaders , or the concentration of power over a few absolutely critical decisions in the hands of a power elite , view leadership as a zero-sum game . |
| 37 | ‘ We could find people who wanted £3m worth of business over a few years , but failed to get any quick profit deals . |
| 38 | Just a room for occasional use over a few months , cash in advance of course , sorry no baby-sitting . |
| 39 | Over a few years he disposed of about £40,000 . |
| 40 | I will not insult you by asking you to be my servant , Burkett , but nevertheless I could use a good man to drive this coach down to Grasmere , get me some fishing over a few days , be prepared to go the odd errand — about a week in all I would guess . |
| 41 | You can take these courses either as an undergraduate and build up your degree over a few years or pursue a particular interest by taking these courses on a ‘ one-off ’ basis as an associate student . |
| 42 | Alcoholism may progress quickly over a few years but commonly progresses over twenty years or even more from first intoxication until terminal chronic disease . |
| 43 | It is important that there should be not only a record of the climates of the past on all time scales , but also a continuing record of short-term fluctuations of climate ( variations over a few years ) coordinated on a global scale . |
| 44 | In Gwynedd the argument was only over a few hundred dwellings . |
| 45 | They tend to get worse over a fe over a few days , before they start to get better as well . |
| 46 | It was said , in effect , that the extent of , say , carbonate deposits over a few square miles in the Bahamas at the present day is something quite different from the persistence of carbonates in early Carboniferous times over much of the northern hemisphere . |
| 47 | The decay of the transient absorption was monitored over a few hundred microseconds , following a 30 ns photolysis flash [ 25 ] . |
| 48 | The historical record over a few cycles of objective setting and reviewing is a means of evaluating the progress of the follower on the sound basis of how he thinks about his job and how he carries it out . |
| 49 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 50 | a crazy pie in the sky idea dreamt up over a few beers finally became a reality today and a new world record . |
| 51 | League is concerned , is the amount of money coming into the game and the danger that over a few years it could widen the division between the haves and the have-nots . |
| 52 | The moral to be drawn from this is , let us apply the same committed and co-ordinated approach to deliver a Scottish parliament , which could tackle a whole range of problems , rather than simply showing piecemeal enthusiasm over a few issues like water and the poll tax . |
| 53 | We decided to draw our internal auditors from operational staff across the board so that over a few years everyone would have the opportunity to be an auditor as well as being audited themselves . |
| 54 | you are in strange mood today , now you wan na run over a few cyclists , well there 's an old lady and man there , I mean , why not pick them ! |
| 55 | Well it 's just brought out a budget to paper over a few cracks and make it look good because they knew that , they 've got no more chances this is it in n it ? |
| 56 | tossed over a few times in the night , burnt me eyes out |
| 57 | You slipped over a few times but you got up alright did n't you ? |
| 58 | I mean you can look back like , just over a few years , |
| 59 | to go over a few times . |