Example sentences of "[verb] occurred [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , linear magnetic anomalies have been identified behind a number of island arcs ; those behind the Scotia Arc in the southern Atlantic Ocean , for instance , indicate that spreading has occurred here over the past 7–8 Ma . |
| 2 | Cultural contamination of soil on a large scale has occurred only over the last 200 years and is generally absent in the more remote areas . |
| 3 | Although we have argued that the patent vein metasomatism observed in the Bultfontein peridotites represents a discrete , short-lived episode corresponding to the eruption of the Cretaceous group I kimberlites , we emphasize that alkaline volcanism on the Kaapvaal craton has occurred periodically since the Archaean era . |
| 4 | It seems strange that this great surge of medical interest in dietary fibre should have occurred only in the past decade . |
| 5 | Early in the fourth century the struggles that had occurred intermittently between the Roman state and the Christian Church ended with the latter proving the stronger , partly as a result of the military upheavals that had threatened the former in the middle of the previous century . |