Example sentences of "it covered [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 2 | It covered 100 yards in three seconds which means a speed of nearly 70 miles an hour ! |
| 3 | It covered all land and air forces , but not paramilitary forces , on which the treaty framework provided only for an exchange of views to take place . |
| 4 | 84% felt it covered all aspects associated with the subject matter . |
| 5 | The district committee , the A G E W district committee , er recognized that it was something that er was a confederation exercise because it covered all aspects of the workforce , and therefore you had er engineers and , and the sheet metal workers and electricians and pattern makers , everybody within the confed in Brothers was affected by it . |
| 6 | Originally it covered all gifts , but since 1986 it is restricted to gifts on death or those made within seven years of death . |
| 7 | It covered all types of school — public ( i.e. maintained ) , grant-aided and independent . |
| 8 | And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years . |
| 9 | It covered 14,000 acres , and it was invisible . |
| 10 | As amended in 1965 , it covered any person who in any public place or at any public meeting used threatening , abusive , or insulting words or behaviour or distributed or displayed any writing , sign , or other visible representation which was threatening , abusive , or insulting . |
| 11 | " Actual " seems to mean " more than trivial " though Taylor v Granville [ 1978 ] Crim LR 482 said that it covered any harm , however slight . |
| 12 | Local people claimed that dust blown from the drying tailings pond ( though lake would be a more accurate description , as it covered 148 acres ) left after the mine closed was harming human and animal health in the area . |
| 13 | It covered ten rape cases in 1971 , but reported only three cases not covered in the other five newspapers . |