Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] over the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The major bloc-based classification reflects the economic , political and cultural-ideological struggle between capitalism and communism for control over the global system .
2 The guard was removed on the following day , but the incident exemplified the renewed struggle for control over the influential liberal daily newspaper .
3 The struggle for control over the Baltic republics is rapidly being overtaken by a bigger struggle for power in the Soviet Union .
4 Although promotion slipped from our grasp early on , our fight for survival over the last seven months has been real nail-biting stuff .
5 Proceeding with due caution therefore , we can ask : what do we know about patterns of support between kin over the past two centuries ?
6 CCG HAS started a new contract to provide school meals for the London Borough of Wandesworth over the next four years .
7 One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs .
8 Black Holes are fascinating , and have caused a great deal of excitement over the past 20 years .
9 To someone accustomed by the existing advanced accounting courses , with no involvement in the National Certificate , the proposals seemed somewhat revolutionary and the document generated a good deal of discussion over the following few weeks on the relative merits of the B1 and B2 models etc .
10 Interim reporting has been attracting a great deal of attention over the past year .
11 Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks .
12 Constanze was to spend a good deal of time over the next two years at Baden , where her husband often visited her .
13 The Bank of England has a great deal of power over the financial markets because of its role as lender of last resort .
14 El Segundo , California-based systems integrator , Computer Sciences Corp , and Sun Microsystems Inc are teaming to offer client/server solutions to aeroplane builders — the two expect to win $80m of business over the next 18 months : CSC won the $3bn , 10-year outsourcing contract with General Dynamics in 1991 .
15 Seen from the outside the nature , and above all , the neck-breaking speed of achievements over the past two months may seem remarkable .
16 Study in Midlothian had shown a 33% loss , East Lothian a 23% loss and Bedfordshire in England had shown a remarkable 82% loss of ponds over the last century .
17 Er w which in turn is is intended to minimize the loss of staff over the next two years .
18 Scientist Tom Clarkson said that there was a 50-60 percent loss of ozone over the Antarctic during the southern spring ( from September to November ) .
19 This has come about partly as a result of research over the last 10 years or so into various forms of involvement in the teaching of reading .
20 The French and British governments are following exactly the opposite policies on production in the public sector ; the French have nationalised an additional 12% of industrial output while the British have begun to sell public assets to the private sector and to plan a vigorous programme of privatisation over the next few years .
21 This year 's profits will be used to help fund a record £1.5billion programme of investment over the next five years to cope with what is described as ‘ a phenomenal ’ growth in mail .
22 It is important that the purpose of this criticism should not be misunderstood ; the theoretical and experimental contributions that the Aplysia group have made to the cellular study of memory over the past two decades have been substantial , but the very intellectual certainty of the group and the charisma of its leader have tended to suppress some of its problems and sideline those who have articulated them .
23 He will be discussing the future of Leeds over the next 5 years or so .
24 The relation between the theory and practice of perspective over the next four centuries is examined in detail .
25 One big piece of deregulation over the past ten years will be hard to reverse : the freeing of interest rates .
26 It was with his father Paul 's encouragement that Pascal eventually set to work on the project , which has been ‘ something of a labour of love over the last few years ’ .
27 He had been asked to make savings of £440,000 over the next three years but says , without more money , police vacancies will be frozen and jobs will be lost .
28 At Messina they succeeded in winning the support of Italy for a move towards broad economic integration , triumphing over both a more limited conception advocated by West Germany that fell somewhere between supranationalism and the old sectoral route , and the doubts of France over the whole concept of a common market .
29 Party leaders will work on identifying the priorities for Labour 's first term of office over the next year .
30 It shocked my manager a lot too and he 's going to be concentrating on a big relaunch of Suzanne over the next while so I think it 's a good opportunity for me to take my career more into my own hands . ’
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