Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [noun] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Extrahepatic disorders unrelated to cirrhosis in portal hypertension occur with greater frequency in the elderly : in our experience more than 10% of patients over the age of 65 years with variceal haemorrhage have glucose intolerance requiring treatment with either insulin or oral hypoglycaemic agents .
2 The star of the Volkswagen adverts , who earns £1,000 a day , has paid only £21.50 of fees over a court case , says the company .
3 Secondary education , mainly in schools now known as grammar schools , was available nationally for 20% of children over the age of eleven , with pronounced regional variations .
4 It expects to get venture funding of $2m to $4m over the summer when it will start shipping .
5 So , Sir , I have been able to reflect on the inherent good sense of the people of Worcester over the years I have been privileged to be the Member for that constituency .
6 ‘ Do you know , ’ I asked a market trader as I met the fine working people of Motherwell over the weekend , ‘ that this country 's public sector borrowing requirement expressed as a percentage of Gross National Product is running at a completely unacceptable level ? ’
7 If the flat only has one entrance/exit ( which it will because it is not on the ground floor ) , it should have a fire escape , or some means of escape over a balcony or roof .
8 Unless working-class children are given linguistic means of control over the disciplines of the curriculum , and situations in the outside world , they are unlikely to stand much chance of being upwardly mobile .
9 The need for properly enforceable means of control over the supervision and maintenance of reservoirs becomes increasingly urgent . ’
10 Westergaard and Resler estimated that in 1970 only 7% of adults over the age of 25 owned shares .
11 It must be all or nothing , ’ he declared , appealing to the American people from Korea over the President 's head .
12 The contrast is most marked in the West Midlands , which has seen the percentage of births jump from 8pc to 20pc over the decade .
13 He can go to Liam 's people at Hilltown over the mountains .
14 That report from the Mayo clinic was mirrored to some extent by the study of Pescatori and Mattana who reported that 45% of patients over the age of 45 experienced faecal soiling , whereas only 24% of patients under 45 years of age did so .
15 Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years .
16 Running through the history of literary criticism is a series of debates over the connection ( or contrast ) between literature and philosophy , and between the aesthetic imagination and science .
17 The period affects all young people and involves a series of stages over a number of years , which are influenced by social and economic status .
18 This had led to a lengthy series of negotiations over the sort of contracts which should bind printers in his new plant .
19 Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit .
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