Example sentences of "[verb] over a very wide [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Correlations varied over a very wide range . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Shearman , as District Chairman , recognised that the District could not continue in its relatively impecunious way ‘ sustained by a very small number of rather weak branches dispersed over a very wide area … most of the branches were struggling ’ . |
| 3 | Despite its name , it is found over a very wide range of warm countries , including not only most of Africa but also the Mediterranean islands of Majorca , Corsica , Sardinia , Sicily and Crete . |
| 4 | Admittedly it is diachronous , but hardly by more than half a stage or so , and it is still a valid generalisation to say that a massive limestone is developed over a very wide area towards the end of early Cretaceous times . |
| 5 | So deep a human interest — in the renewed and renewable means of recognition , self-recognition and identity — can be practised over a very wide range , from the most collective to the most individual forms . |