Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] over [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now then er regular listeners will know that over the last couple of years or so we 've done some special listener trips for you er and we 've gone down to London . |
| 2 | At any rate , it would be an exaggeration to speak of a collapse of militancy , or to infer that over the long term workers ' resistance can not be maintained . |
| 3 | Merseyside 's leading housing advice group also says that over the last year there has been a 100pc rise in the number of young homeless being referred to it . |
| 4 | Allied Provincial 's David Shaw said Phonelink estimated that over the coming year , it would need at least £5m to set up a second production site , to buy more data engines and to fund research and development work . |
| 5 | Foreign press reports in March claimed that over the past year up to 400,000 people from shanty towns in the outskirts of Khartoum had been forcibly relocated to areas outside the city [ for December 1991 killings of shanty-town dwellers see p. 38666 ] . |
| 6 | A MAFF study in Staffordshire showed that over the 1978–81 period , 246 larger farmers ( 500 smds or above ) spent an average of £4,419 on capital works ( grant-aided ) while 202 smaller farmers ( 150–250 smds ) spent an average of only £328 . |
| 7 | These consist of two linear portions whose slopes differ and closer inspection reveals that over a narrow range of temperature of between 2 and 5 K the slope changes continuously . |
| 8 | That I think is my main concern , with a request in a sense to you for supporting that over the next year or so , because I 'll be trying to perhaps get invited to the meetings , and perhaps we 'll be inviting officers from the authority to join me in looking at ways of building up that local context in planning to get that into our formal planning systems . |
| 9 | Suppose that over a six-month period , we were investigating changes in attitude of a sample of single girls to contraception , some of the group might get married . |
| 10 | When the Left want to take control of a particular constituency , they look at its controlling group and note that over a six-month period the maximum number of people attending the decision-making meetings is never more than ( say ) twenty-seven . |
| 11 | We should note that over the next decade about half the children aged from 7–11 years will not have adequate conditions to attend primary school normally in terms of the law on the National System of Education and that many other older children will be likewise unable to attend school . |
| 12 | The supervisor can aid and abet the earner to drive while over the prescribed limit etc . |
| 13 | But do n't forget that over a longer period , shares are bound to do better . |
| 14 | More importantly , they argue that over the longer run V is determined totally independently of the money supply ( M ) . |
| 15 | It 's believed that over the past year tens of thousands of pounds worth of equipment has been charged to the council and then sold privately by some of its staff . |
| 16 | It already has a labour force there of 15,000 and plans to double that over the next year or two , investing around DM1 billion . |
| 17 | However , while climatic conditions could lead to some long-term changes in the economy and to sharp annual variations in food prices , there is no reason to doubt that over a long period movements in prices and wages do indicate whether population was rising or falling . |
| 18 | Likewise when we go to a country , we need somewhere to stay and over the last decade there have been more and more hotels built in virtually every place in the world . |
| 19 | The guidelines envisage that over the 20 year period to 2011 the proportion of aggregates supply met from primary land-based sources in the region will decline from 65% to around 45% , despite a net increase in output . |
| 20 | Development of all major new weapons programmes would nevertheless continue but over a longer time span . |
| 21 | Which audience demands which style , okay , we 're going to be practising that over the next week , and the other skills to do with summary . |
| 22 | Even Roxburgh had to admit that over the last year , during which Ferguson has flirted with letting the latter trait get the better of the former , has brought the player an ‘ awareness of the tough , competitive business he is in . ’ |
| 23 | In fact one study ( Armstrong 1984 ) reports that over the last century in Britain each 4 per cent increase in hourly wage rates for males has been followed by a 1 per cent reduction in hours worked per year . |
| 24 | For example , Richards has used the methods of Cragg and Malkiel to show that over a 1-year time horizon professional analysts perform ‘ reasonably well ’ . |
| 25 | A market economy in China promises to mean that over the next decade Asia 's geography can reassert itself . |
| 26 | He argues that over the last century or so the number of white-collar jobs has increased rapidly , but at the same time the skill required to do the jobs has been reduced . |
| 27 | Instead , he believes that over a five year timescale , Unix systems actually cost more to run than mainframes due to hidden costs from lost productivity . |
| 28 | Terence Chute , the chairman , explained that over the past year the company has invested over £11m in revenue producing equipment , with existing operations being upgraded and new subsidiaries launched . |
| 29 | In some cases a carefully monitored rolling programme ensured that over a given period of time , say a week or a fortnight , the teacher engaged directly with every child in every area of the curriculum ; but in other cases the inequality of investment was not adjusted in this way , and the result was the persistent neglect of certain children and certain areas of the curriculum . |