Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun] [prep] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McLeish himself , though admiring , had been unaffected ; he had been in love for over a year with a young woman only a little older , and even cleverer , than Sergeant Crane . |
| 2 | The plane looks almost identical to the old Hercules which has been in service for over a quarter of a century . |
| 3 | Those projects observed had been in progress for over a year and most had established a good opening strategy as might be expected from their ability to identify schools with good potential for change . |
| 4 | Except treasury bonds , no bonds may be publicly bought and sold unless the issuer has been in business for over a year , the prospectus has been appropriately published and the issue is gone through an issuing house , and the prospectus has been approved by the Authority . |
| 5 | Notice that over 40 per cent of those people unemployed on the day of the count had been without work for over a year . |
| 6 | Taking men of working-class origin of the same age group in 1983 , and signifying unemployment as a separate category , the survey found 22 per cent were upwardly mobile , 40 per cent remained in working-class positions , while a further 11 per cent had been pushed down into unemployment , and over half of this last group had been without work for over a year . |
| 7 | By 1983 , unemployment had reached over 12 per cent , and long-term unemployment ( defined as being without work for over a year ) had emerged as a significant economic and social issue . |
| 8 | Mr Reynolds however was in hospital for over a week before having an operation to remove a carcinoma from his bowel . |