Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the crazy world of classic cars , where old Ferraris and Aston Martins fetch silly money , and Jaguar E-types have gone through the roof , the rise and rise of these exotics over the past two or three years has lifted values down the line . |
| 2 | He wanted to get the feel of the place , to find out what it was like to be Francis Garland , living with his father and sister in these rooms over the shop . |
| 3 | However , by 1892 the immense amount of work on the structure and synthesis of organic compounds over the previous 25–30 years made a more systematic approach to naming these compounds necessary . |
| 4 | These include the reduction in the legal immunities and rights of trade unions , rejection of formal incomes policy , and the tripartite style of decisionmaking , according priority to the abatement of inflation , even with unemployment at over three million , privatization of state industries and services , changes in the framework in which many public services are carried out , interventions in local government structure and imposition of far-reaching controls over its finance , changes in the welfare state , and open hostility to the civil service and large parts of the public sector . |
| 5 | In other words , the introduction and extension of state-pension rights over the course of the twentieth century has been by far the most important mechanism for increasing the effective wealth of the poorer sections of the population . |
| 6 | These plans have been broadly accepted and , with others to follow , Lindsell expects them to account for substantial investment and allocation of human resources over the next five years or so . |
| 7 | John Mackintosh has described a convention as " a generally accepted political practice , " arguing that it was necessary to deduce its nature and scope by observing and analysing the conduct of government and politics in similar situations over the years . |