Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But rabbits are most accessible to the mink in the spring and autumn , and much less so over the winter .
2 The past is only ever just over the shoulder and all day artifacts from Rendcomb 's valiant time as a Great War training ground came ‘ home ’ to the careful hands of its new owners .
3 Even in the early 1960s , though Piraeus is less far away over the water than Dover is from Calais , taking a car to Aegina meant winching it into and out of a caique .
4 THE number and value of management buy-outs and management buy-ins in 1992 augured well for the future of the market , according to research published yesterday , though the number of transactions increased only very slightly over the total for 1991 , writes Bill Millar .
5 Emily Lightbody and I worked together very closely over the move .
6 Place your thumbs at the centre between the eyebrows ( the ‘ third eye ’ ) and this time slide your thumbs a little more firmly over the brow bone and off the head .
7 Michael Banks , who by this time looked terminally tired , seemed to have lost the knack of timing which he had so laboriously achieved the day before , and so his lines were once again all over the place .
8 The towns which thus sprung up at some railway centres are examples of the way in which individuality was lost , and lately the housing estate has spread a new uniformity even more widely over the country .
9 The policemen 's homes were n't — their barracks were being attacked almost daily all over the country .
10 For example , pretty well all over the world , the Lower Jurassic terebratulids were represented by the one monotonous , dull-looking genus Lobothyris , though the order was more complex both and afterwards , and several other families somehow survived this temporary eclipse .
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